Book review: the frontier tribal belt: genesis and purpose under the Raj by Salman Bangash

In The Frontier Tribal Belt: Genesis and Purpose Under the Raj Salman Bangash explores the history of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, focussing on how British policies shaped the tribal belt and mobilised religion for strategic ends. Usama Khilji finds the book a fluid and objective guide to understanding the roots of the conflicts that we are seeing unravel in FATA today.