Beginning with details of its nomenclature and geography, the book continues with covering and thoroughly examining and discussing the prehistory and protohistoric periods of Swat, different aspects of Alexander of Macedonia's invasion, the period from the Mauryas to the Hindu Shahis, religious perspective of...

The book covers a variety of topics about the Frontier (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) such as: geography; three major theories of the origin of the Pukhtuns; occupation by the Britons (1849); pros and cons of the Durand Line Agreement (1893); uprising against the British (1897); formation...