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The Forward Policy and its Results or Thirty-Five Years' Work Amongst the Tribes on our North-Western Frontier of India

1900

remember the India of that time when there was no railway on the frontier except for the few miles between Karachi and Kotri and that this was in the month of Aug ust the height of the Monsoon and the hot season will admit that the prospect before me was.a somewhat formidable one. [...] One of the greatest obstacles now existing to the establisment of an extensive and most valuable trade between Central Asia and the sea is the total want of protection for life and property on the journey through the Bolan and the plain of Kachi. [...] The fire of the burning hamlets was seen by the garrison of the Hurrund Fort and a detachment of forty troopers of the 5th Punjab Cavalry galloped to the spot. [...] Sir Henry Green in his reply said that the Khan had no control over the Maths ; and wrote : The Marris being Beluch are certainly nominally subjects of the Khan of Khelat and are held by him under about the same control as the Afridis of the hills bounding the Peshawar valley are by the ruler of Kabul; and any complaint of their conduct to the Khan would be of as much use as the Commissioner of [...] In his reply to the Punjab Government the Secretary of the Government of India in the Foreign Department wrote : I am directed to state that in the opinion of the Viceroy and 'Governor-General in Council the proceedings now reported which have resulted in the capture of these chiefs are very creditable to Mr.
government politics public policy
Pages
435
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.144662
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxviii Richard Bruce view
Introductory
1-5 Richard Bruce view
Chapter I. Condition of Frontier and Tribes 1862 to 1865
6-41 Richard Bruce view
Chapter II. Initiation and Working of the Policy 1868 to 1876
42-55 Richard Bruce view
Chapter III. Sandeman’s Missions to Khelat 1876 to 1877
56-68 Richard Bruce view
Chapter IV. Occupation of Quetta 1877
69-81 Richard Bruce view
Chapter V. Afghan War 1878 to 1881
82-99 Richard Bruce view
Chapter VI. Tribal Distributions Question of Retention of Peshin and Sibi 1881-1882
100-119 Richard Bruce view
Chapter VII. Sattlement of Marris Bugtis and Kakars 1882 to 1885
120-153 Richard Bruce view
Chapter VIII. Visits of Lord Rosebery and Duke of Connaught 1886 to 1897
154-163 Richard Bruce view
Chapter IX. Transfer to Derajat-Waziri Affairs 1887 to 1889
164-184 Richard Bruce view
Chapter X. Opening of Gomal Pass 1889 to 1890
185-205 Richard Bruce view
Chapter XI. Khidderzai Expedition Sherani Affairs 1890 to 1891
206-221 Richard Bruce view
Chapter XII. Death of Sir R. Sandeman 1891 to 1892
222-242 Richard Bruce view
Chapter XIII. Kabul Itrigues Durand Boundary 1892 to 1895
243-285 Richard Bruce view
Chapter XIV. Opening of the Tochi 1895 to 1896
286-323 Richard Bruce view
Chapter XV. Lord Roberts’s Speech 1898
324-351 Richard Bruce view
Chapter XVI. Conclusions and Recommendations
352-374 Richard Bruce view
Index
375-382 Richard Bruce view