Rumour as Information: British Forces, Control, and Communication on the Indian North-West Frontier

India during the nineteenth century was a rumour rich-society. For the British authorities these rumours were difficult to control and had the ability to weaken their prestige. This point was highlighted during the Frontier ‘Uprising’ of 1897 when a British official ignored a report he had received because it contradicted his own information. The report of potential trouble proved to be correct. Rumours were also misunderstood with these misunderstandings connected to the authorities’ sources of information being inadequate. However, despite the inadequacy of information gathering, rumours were the only sources available for the authorities to make decisions. This illustrates the fragility of rule and the challenges that the officials on the Frontier encountered. The consequence of these shortfalls was that the British had to respond to events reactively and miscalculations were made. The paper will exemplify the importance of rumour on the Frontier through two case studies: The First Afghan War (1838–42) and the 1897 Frontier Uprising. These two examples, by setting original archival documents in their historical context, illustrate the extent to which rumours were free to circulate leading to responsive and ill-prepared actions by the British

Afghanistan

Since 1905 Britain had paid the Afghan ruler, Amir Habibullah, a subsidy and had controlled Afghanistan's foreign relations, and he maintained Afghanistan's neutrality throughout WWI in spite of strong pressure to induce him to join the Central Powers. The war did not have much of an impact on most Afghans (although there were shortages of some commodities), but many died in the global influenza outbreak which began in 1918. When the war ended Britain failed to reward the Amir for his refusal to take advantage of British weakness during it, and he was assassinated early in 1919. His successor, Amir Amanullah, launched the third Anglo-Afghan War, following which the country became fully independent, but Amanullah's hasty modernization was to lead to his overthrow in 1929

Minutes of the Society for Ontofabulatory Research: report from the Committee for Aeronautical Psychogeography

In late 2012, the RAF’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft Squadron began operating their provision of armed Reaper drones from Waddington air base in Lincolnshire. In a world in which military affairs have been revolutionized, and conflicts integrated as normalized states of crisis, the ‘drone’ is an expression of a system of power continually boosted by the myths and fears entangled in its paradoxical operation. Lincolnshire, known locally as ‘bomber county’, and defined by the narratives and aesthetics of its military culture, acts as microcosm for debates over the new spatialities of such power. Here we address these debates in reference to an experimental film project which creatively deploys McKenzie Wark’s concept of ‘telesthesia’, exploiting ‘perception at a distance’ as a tool for what Nicholas Mirzoeff calls ‘countervisuality’. Inspired by avant-garde games of the twentieth century, the film maps and newly imagines the media-ecological battlefield in which we find ourselves. In briefly perceiving our collective presence as both HERE and THERE, we aim to invoke what the novelist China Miéville calls a ‘swillage of...awe and horror from ‘beyond’, back into the everyday’, a weirding affect which the conventional narratives of our county will fail to contain or explain

\u3ci\u3eWith the Afghans\u3c/i\u3e

Contents: The Afghans -- Afghan customs and characteristics -- Peshawar city and cantonment -- The religion of the Pathans -- Mission work -- Preaching across the Frontier -- An Afghan heretic -- Two soldiers of the guides -- The Frontier rising of 1897 -- Converts and enquirers -- Persian influences on the Afghans -- Afghan poets -- Afghan fable

Role of Tri-Phasic Computed Tomography in Evaluation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

OBJECTIVESTo assess the usefulness of Tri-phasic computed tomography in the evaluation of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients.METHODOLOGYThis cross-sectional study was carried out in the Radiology and Imaging Department of Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar from October 2020 to September 2021 (01 year). Tri-phasic CT was done in all patients. Patients with suspected hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosed by clinical and ultrasonography and having high serum α-fetoprotein levels were enrolled in the study.RESULTSMalignant cases on tri-phasic CT were 120(82.8%) while benign cases were 25 (17.2%) Fig -I. In malignant tumor cases, 99(82.5%) patients had hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), 13(10.8%) had metastases and 8(6.7%) had dysplastic nodule respectively. In benign tumour cases, 15(60%) had regenerative nodules, 6(24%) had hepatic adenoma and 4 (16%) had haemangioma. Tri -phasic CT as a tool in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients showed a sensitivity of 96.8%, specificity of 79.7%, the accuracy of 95%, positive predictive values of 96.2% and negative predictive values of 88.1%.CONCLUSIONTri-Phasic CT can be an ideal diagnostic tool for detecting as well as characterizing hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients

\u3ci\u3eThe story of the frontier province\u3c/i\u3e

The history of North-west Frontier is closely connected to Afghanistan. During the 18th century the area was ruled by Afghans. Between 1818 and 1834 the Sikhs occupied Peshawar with the help of the British government in India. The book covers the history of the North-West Frontier from the mid-nineteenth century of early 20th century

Early surgery versus initial conservative treatment in patients with traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage [STITCH(Trauma)] : the first randomized trial

Acknowledgements This project was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme (project number 07/37/16). The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HTA programme, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health.Peer reviewedPublisher PD