British Period Archaeology and Heritage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: buildings from the borders of British India.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In this paper, we will present key results from fieldwork for the first project to record and explore the British Period in the modern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in what is now Pakistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (located in the north west of modern Pakistan), remained outside formal British control until the second half of the 19th century. Historical accounts of this north western frontier region tend to stress its geographically strategic role in the Great Game between Imperial Russia and British India, and the impact of military might can be seen in many buildings, urban planning, and landscapes. However, the work from this new project is revealing many types of buildings (and landscapes) established by and linked to the British, and here we introduce some of these findings, and consider what they might mean for new understandings of British influence and activity in this region.

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• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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