Pamirian Crossroads: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia

by Hermann Kreutzmann

The Pamirian Knot was a focal region during the 'Great Game' in High Asia. In the aftermath, the mountainous borderland regions became peripheries in their respective countries. Pamirian Crossroads highlights these marginal borderlands in four neighboring countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tajikistan - and analyzes the differentiating effects of imperial designs, colonial boundary-making, political intervention and administrative reforms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 344710449X
• ISBN13: 9783447104494
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 559 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.