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In the imperial aura of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, archaeologists were not indifferent to socio-political developments in India. It is obvious, amongst others, from Sir Aurel Stein’s works. This study particularly focuses on his Detailed Report of an Archaeological Tour with the Buner Field Force (1898). Stein, on the invitation of Major H. A. Deane, the first Political Agent of Malakand Agency, constituted in 1895, joined the punitive expedition of the Buner Field Force for an archaeological reconnaissance of the valley. The expedition aimed at punishing the tribes for participating in the 1897 uprisings at Malakand. Primarily concerned with archaeological survey, Stein also made observations on war and resistance. This study extracts these nonarchaeological data from Stein’s report with a special focus on routes and movements of the force and responses of the locals. All this has, finally, been assessed in the light of recent scholarly debates.

Rafiullah Khan. (2019) The Punitive Expedition of the Buner Field Force, 1898: Observations of an Archaeologist, , Volume-13, Issue-2.
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