Re-Reading Peshawar Lancers: Pashtuns.

Finn

Okay, re-reading Peshawar Lancers, it is way more hostile to the Pashtun Afghans than I remember. Sure the Imperials hate those hill-folk, but nothing in the narrative shows the Pashtuns as being less worse than all the horrible things the protagonists say about their culture. I'm going to keep reading to see if I'm proven wrong.

It's also shows an India creepily devoid of its large Muslim minority, not sure why that is, and also has the all-of-Islam caliphate cliche.

I know this was written in 2002, after 9/11 and before Stirling got banned for his Islamophobia, but it's making this book harder to enjoy.
 

altwere

The moslems are there and are talked about, but they are part of the background and are not greatly important to the story line. As for the pashtun, Stirling writes about them using Kiplings voice.
 

altwere

Ibrahim is a supporting actor, but the rest are just back ground until the end of the book.
 
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