British Period Archaeology and Heritage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The north-western region of Pakistan was a late addition to British India when it was annexed by the British after the Second Sikh War (1848-9).  Standing between Imperial Russia and British India the region was of primary importance to the British as an area of strategic control. As part of a new project exploring the archaeology and heritage of what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) we are interested in understanding this border area as a landscape of power and control.  The British built numerous military structures in this region such as forts and pickets, and this paper will present preliminary findings of the mapping and exploration of various structures and how they were used to achieve British aims.  We will also briefly consider their legacy and re-imagination today: they are still being used by the Pakistan military and play a role as heritage structures, contributing to KP identity creation.   

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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