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  • 3 - The Emergency Episteme of the ‘Tribe’ in Afghanistan

  • Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book:
    Imagining Afghanistan
    Published online:
    09 June 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020, pp 105-142

  • Summary

    The notion of the ‘tribe’ is perhaps the most (ab)used socio-political category when it comes to contemporary political discourse on Afghanistan. Following on from the alternate construction of Afghanistan as a failed state, as a frontier and from debates about ‘Af-Pak’, Chapter 3 shows the ways in which a particular lens through which the early East India Company administrators tried to comprehend the people they encountered has become a definitive marker of Afghan society, polity and culture today. The discussion traces the genealogy of the term ‘tribe’ before moving on to an examination of the problematic knowledge practices that underpin this over-determined and misleading Afghan ‘way of life’.