State-tribal relations in the British India: a study of the Yousafzai’s armed resistance in the Northwest Frontier region

This paper aims to shed limelight on the Pakhtun tribal resistance in North-West Frontier region (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) against colonial masters of British India. The purpose this research is highlight induction troops into areas form different war campaigns and local Pashtun tribes' responses armed resistance. subject essential for researchers know reality tribes and, more importantly, wars fought between India's army battlefields. methodology adopted a descriptive study, data collection based secondary data, which analysed through content analysis techniques. period from 1862 1888 taken under consideration, causes that triggered clashes, such as Siege Malakand (North Camp), Ambeyla Campaign (near Buner) Black Mountain Expedition (Hazara areas). findings study are Yousafzai tribe presented massive proved their effectiveness wars.