This study focuses on the politics of the North-West Frontier Province of undivided India between 1937 and 1947. It was the only Muslim majority province which supported the Indian National Congress in its struggle to represent an Indian nation against the British Raj, Rather than joining other Muslims in the All-India Muslim League. The Pashtun's sense of separate ethnic identity, within the bounds and framework of Islam, was an acknowledged fact. There was no ...
