Yaghistan

Yaghistan (The Land of Rebels) was a key frontier region between Afghanistan and British India.^[1] This was an area where Pashtun tribes lived, on either side of the Durand Line.^[1]

History

Yāghistān was the center of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi's Silk Letter Movement.^[2] The area was never conquered by the British Raj and its people and the unadministered tribes always remained hostile towards the British.^[3]

According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Yaghistan "referred to different sanctuaries used by Mujahideen against the British authorities in the 19th and early 20th centuries, in the various independent tribal areas, mainly inhabited by the Pak̲h̲tūns [Pashtuns], in the hinterland of what became the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India such as the Mohmand Agency, Bunēr, Dīr, Swāt, Kohistān, Hazāra and Čamarkand."^[4]

^ ^a ^b Hyman, Anthony (2002). "Nationalism in Afghanistan". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 34 (2): 306. JSTOR 3879829. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ Tabassum, Farhat (2006). Deoband Ulema's Movement for the Freedom of India (1st ed.). New Delhi: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind in association with Manak Publications. p. 47. ISBN 81-7827-147-8.
^ Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim (1999). "Indus Kohistan An Historical and Ethnographie Outline". Central Asiatic Journal. 43 (1). Harrassowitz Verlag: 70–71. JSTOR 41928174.
^ Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; Donzel, E. van; Heinrichs, W.P., eds. (2012). Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). BRILL. ISBN 9789004161214.