Description: Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives.
Brief description: Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History and Fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford.
Review Quotes: Under the Drones will not displace the notions that Western observers often associate with the Afghanistan-Pakistan region--mindless cruelty, female oppression, and a flourishing opium economy. But the book will help readers to make sense of the economic and social forces that motivate the actions of the borderlands' inhabitants and to understand that the local population is not an empty slate to be written upon by agents from the outside.--Karunesh Tuli "ForeWord" (9/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)