The Pathan Revolt in North-West India

THE PATHAN REVOLT NORTH-WEST INDIA Being a complete narrative of he Maisor Ovarage and Punitive Expedition in the Tochi Valley the Sit.ce and Relief of the btalakand and Ohakclara Fort the Battle of Shabkadar the Mohmand Rising the Afridi Seizure of the Khybe Pass the Oraksai Attacks' on the Samaria Outpost. [...] What the Turk has done to the Greeks the followers of Islam can repeat with the English in India and in the excited state of public feeling induced by the Calcutta riots the murders of Europeans at Lahore Poona and Peshawar and the seditious nature of much of the writings in the native press much popular credence was given to this idea. [...] It was when the first signs of serious disaffection among the Afridis and the Orakzais—with the exception of the Waziris the two most powerful and numerous fighting clans of the frontier—manifested themselves that the full seriousness of the revolt was clearly seen. [...] The rising of the Afridis and the loss of the Khyber Pass which happened towards the latter half of August determined Government on the despatch of a large force under Lieutenant General Sir William Lockhart S. C. B. Commander-in-Chief elect of India to lift the purdah from Tirab that terra incognita to Europeans whither the Afridi and Orakzai retire in the summer from the overpowering heat [...] With the successful pacification of the Swat Valley the peaceful submission of the Mohmands and the final success of Sir Biudon Blood among the stubborn Mamunds the first act in the frontier war drama of 1897 ended and the curtain was rung down preparatory to the second act when Sir William Lockhart with the flower of the British and Indian army marches on the plateau of Tirab and in their own