Abstract
The previous anthropological studies on Pukhtuns, conducted by different scholars
have usually focused on peripheries like Swat. The present article looks Hazar
Khwani, a village in the vicinity of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, a
major urban and trade centre since centuries. Unlike Swat, the sources of income
were multiple in the area and the area went through a major social and economic
transformation. Permanent settlement started much earlier as compare to rest of
Peshawar valley. The mediators of the conflict were also different from other parts
of the province. The paper attempts to answer a few questions: how economic
transformation expedited social transformation? How the people were affected by
the availability of multiple sources of income? How it affected the not only the
economic relations but also the nature of conflict? What caused the emergence of
different actors and factors of mediation?
Sumaira Shafiq, Ashfaq U. Rehman. (2018) Land, Conflict And Traditional Institutions In The North-West Pakistan: An Appraisal Of Hazarkhwani, Peshawar, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 31, issue 1.
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