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The Indian Historical Quarterly June 1946

1946

He discussed this question in his letter (dated 21 st October 1858) to the Government of India.' He was of opinion that from Kalabagh nortwards the frontier line should be the river Indus instead of the base of the hill ranges westward of the river and that the wisest policy would be to give up the Peshawar and Kohat districts to the Afghan Goverment on a fitting opportunity.' The chief a [...] Hence the value of the great German fortresses on the Rhine and of the former Austrian fortresses in the Italian Quadrilateral; and hence the value to France of Nice and Savoy which give her the comand of the passes of the Alps.' The reasoning seems logical and almost flawless and yet the scheme of pushing the frontier to the Hindu Kush mountains did not take into consideration the chief obje [...] (iii) The state of the Sind frontier was precisely similar to that of the Punjab; yet the command of the troops on the Sind frontier was vested in the Commander-in-Chief of the Bobay Army whilst that of the troops of the Trans-Indus frotier was withdrawn from that of the Commander-in-Chief in India. [...] Thus Lord Lytton later on while considering the question of the reorganization of the frontier was of opinion that the military force of the Trans-Indus should pass under the control of the Commander-in-Chief.' Administrative Organization of the Frontier Districts In order to check the marauding tribes. [...] It is well that their ideas should be allowed to extend further.'" Sir Henry Maine joined issues with the Lt.- Governor of the Punjab on the questicn of separating the frontier country from the rest of the Punjab." The Lt.- Governor did not trust for the improvement of the frontier country to its greater seclusion but to its gradual assimilation to the remainder of the British territory.
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Pages
86
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii Narendra Law view
Krmisa and Demetrius
81-91 P.C. Bagchi view
North-West Frontier Policy of Lord Lawrence
92-104 Dharm Pal view
Paramarthasara and Sri Bhagavata
105-111 S. Sastri view
The Pusyamitras of the Bhitari Pillar Inscription
112-117 Jagan Nath view
Dungarpur
118-126 Anil Banerjee view
More Light on Sanskrit Literature of Bengal
127-151 Dinesh Bhattacharyya view
Srivatsacarya A Long-Forgotten Naiyayika
152-154 Dinesh Bhattacharyya view
Antiquity of the Image of Mahisasuratnardini
154-155 D.B. Diskalkar view
Siraj-Ud-Daulah and the English Before 1756
155-156 Kalikinkar Datta view
Review
157-160 unknown view
Bibliographical Notes
161-162 unknown view

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