Born in the Hazara village in Swat, Sultan-i-Rome received his primary and secondary education at government schools in Hazara and Kabal. He completed his bachelor’s from Government Jahanzeb College, Swat; master’s in General History from the University of Karachi; and PhD from the University of Peshawar. Sultan-i-Rome is a life member of the Pakistan Historical Society and a sitting member of its Executive Committee. He is the author of more than fifty research articles in academic journals, books, anthologies, and proceedings, and two working papers. In addition to the present book, he has, so far, to his credit Swat State (1915–1969): From Genesis to Merger (OUP, 2008) [also translated and published in Urdu]; The North-West Frontier (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa): Essays on History (OUP, 2013), and Land and Forest Governance in Swat: Transition from Tribal System to State to Pakistan (OUP, 2016), in English; two titles, Matalunah (2013), and Tapay (2018), in Pashto; and one title, Swat: Tarikh kay Durahay par (2020), in Urdu.