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THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE. Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt, London London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. No. II. No. III. No. IV. No. V. No. VI. No. VII. No. VIII. 1. It is significant that the Pushtu word tarbur means both cousin and enemy. 2. The Sunnis represent the orthodox church of Islam, recognise no divine right of succession to the Caliphate, and claim for the “faithful” free choice in the selection of their spiritual leader; the Shiahs, or sectarians, claim that the right of succession to Muhammad rests with his cousin Ali and Ali’s descendants. 3. For what follows I am indebted to a paper read by Mr. W. R. H. Merk, C.S.I., LL.D., at the Royal Society of Arts, and published in the Journal for June, 1911, on “the North-West Frontier Province of India.” The North-West Frontier Province was formed on the 9th November, 1901. 5. It is to be regretted that no “life” of this remarkable frontier official has ever appeared. 6. Disbanded in 1861. 7. Mutinied at Phillour in 1857. 8. Now the 12th Pioneers. 9. Now the 51st Sikhs. 10. Now the 16th Cavalry. 11. Now the 53rd Sikhs. 12. Now the 56th Punjabi Rifles. 13. Now the 20th Punjabis. 14. Now the 24th Punjabis. 15. Now the 9th Hodson’s Horse. 16. Now the 31st Punjabis. 17. Now the 57th Wilde’s Rifles. 18. Now the 54th Sikhs. 19. Now the 11th Rajputs. 20. Now 28th Punjabis. 21. Now 19th Punjabis. 22. Now 27th Punjabis. 24. For what follows, I am indebted to an article by Col. A. H. Mason in the Journal of the United Service Institution of India for 1890. 26. From A History of the Indian Mutiny, by T. Rice Holmes. 27. Now the 22nd Cavalry. 28. Now the 1st Brahmans. 29. Now the 58th Vaughan’s Rifles. 30. Now the 59th Scinde Rifles. 31. Now the 24th Punjabis. 32. The Peshawar Light Field Battery was raised during the Mutiny from the Bengal Foot Artillery, horsed from the horses taken from the disbanded 5th Light Cavalry. 33. Now the 23rd Peshawar Mountain Battery. 34. Now the 5th Cavalry. 35. Raised during the Mutiny from men of the 27th, 70th and 87th Foot: had a strength of ninety of all ranks, and was commanded by Captain Fane, 87th. 36. Now the 1st Brahmans. 37. Now the 21st Punjabis. 38. Now the 26th Punjabis. 39. Now the 8th Cavalry. 40. Now the 20th Punjabis. 41. Life of Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, by G. W. Forrest. 42. Now the 24th Hazara Mountain Battery. 43. Now the 55th Coke’s Rifles. 44. Now the 11th Lancers. 45. Now the 27th Punjabis. 46. Now the 20th Brownlow’s Punjabis. 47. Disbanded in 1882. 48. Now the 22nd Derajat Mountain Battery. 49. Now the 23rd Sikh Pioneers. 50. Now the 24th Punjabis. 51. Now the 16th Rajputs. 52. Now the 21st Punjabis. 53. Now the 28th Mountain Battery. 54. Now the 10th Lancers (Hodson’s Horse). 55. Now the 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry. 57. Mutinied in 1857. 58. Disbanded in 1861 as the 16th. 59. Mutinied in 1857. 60. Now the 1st Gurkha Rifles. 61. For particulars see Chapter VI. 62. Now the 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse). 63. Now the 21st Cavalry (Daly’s Horse). 64. Mutinied at Shahjahanpur in 1857. 65. See Maps V. and VI. 66. Afterwards killed at Fatehabad during the Afghan War. 67. Afterwards killed in the attack on the British Residency at Kabul. 68. See Chapter VII. 69. See Maps IV. and V. 70. Now the 25th Punjabis. 71. Now the 13th Rajputs. 72. Now the 27th Mountain Battery. 73. Now the 26th Punjabis. 74. Now the 29th Punjabis. 75. Now the 30th Punjabis. 76. Not to be confused with the village of the same name in Lower Swat. 78. Sir Francis Younghusband in the Journal of the Society of Arts, April 1895. 79. Chitral, the Story of a Minor Siege. 80. The Indian Borderland. 81. The Gates of India. 82. Chitral, the Story of a Minor Siege. 84. The word “Gandab” signifies bad water. 85. Usually termed “Arbaba.” 87. Ceased to exist after the Mutiny. 88. Mutinied at Lucknow in 1857. 89. Mutinied in 1857. 90. Mutinied in 1857. 91. Now the 1st Lancers (Skinner’s Horse). 92. Mutinied in 1857. 93. Mutinied in 1857. 94. Now the 44th Merwara Infantry. 95. Now the 17th Cavalry. 96. Now the 8th Rajputs. 97. Now the 61st Pioneers. 98. Now the 64th Pioneers. 99. Now the 128th Pioneers. 100. The permanent way and girders of this Loi-Shilman extension of the N.W. Railway were removed in the winter of 1911-12. 102. Particulars of the sources of supply of rifles will be found in Appendix A. 103. The Second Afghan War, abridged official account. 104. During the first Afghan War. 105. On the frontier, the word “Kandao” is frequently used for Pass. 107. Not to be confused with a pass of the same name between the Khyber and the Bazar Valley. 108. Mutinied in 1857. 109. Now the 21st Kohat Mountain Battery. 110. Now the 22nd Derajat Mountain Battery. 111. Now the 14th Ferozepore Sikhs. 113. For further details of this abduction see Warburton’s Eighteen Years in the Khyber. 114. The villages in the Sisobi Glen are inhabited by Mullagoris, a comparatively insignificant tribe of doubtful origin, and therefore rather despised by their neighbours. They number about 900 fighting men, and the bulk of the tribe live north of the Kabul river and to the west of the Peshawar border, owning the Tartara mountain, 7000 feet high, valuable as a sanatorium and as a position of considerable strategic importance. For further information about the Mullagoris see Chapter IX. 115. Now the 6th Jat Light Infantry. 116. For details of this march, see the narrative of Surgeon-General Ker-Innes. 117. King of Islam. 118. The requirements of expeditionary carriage always weigh with especial hardship on the Punjab; during the summer of 1897 the Deputy Commissioners in that Province impressed about 100,000 animals and 25,000 owners, and of these numbers not one in five was actually required and sent to the front. 119. For much of the following I am indebted to Captain A. K. Slessor’s Tirah Campaign—being No. 5 of the “Derbyshire Campaign Series,” printed for regimental circulation. 120. Quotation is here again made from Captain Slessor’s book. 121. This was afterwards found to be a mere goat-track, quite unsuited to the movement of any large force—still less for its transport. “Talai” is sometimes called “Tsalai.” 122. Now the 128th Pioneers. 123. Now the 39th King George’s Own Central India Horse. 124. Now the 127th L.I. 125. Now the 95th Russell’s Infantry. 127. Not to be confused with a tribe of the same name in the Yusafzai country. 129. No longer in existence. 130. Disbanded in 1882. 131. 4 mountain guns, 300 rifles Royal Irish Regiment, 500 1st Battalion 2nd Gurkhas, 500 1st Battalion 3rd Gurkhas, 500 2nd Punjab Infantry, half a company Bombay Sappers and Miners, and departmental details. 133. Above Sadda is Upper Kurram, between Sadda and Thal is Lower Kurram. 135. The Tochi Valley is sixty-three miles in length. 137. “The family history of Badshah Khan shows the extraordinary conditions which obtain across the frontier, and how seldom men of any note die in their beds. His grandfather, Jangi Khan, was a well-known raider, and he met his death in 1860 at the hands of the 5th Punjab Cavalry when leading a force of Mahsuds to attack Tank. His father, Umar Khan, sacked Tank in 1879, but was killed in a blood-feud in the following year. Badshah Khan was always a prominent figure in the Mahsud jirgahs which came in to discuss matters with our political officers, and he occasionally exerted his authority to keep the more lawless spirits of the tribe in check, but he had to join in the general resistance when punitive expeditions entered the country. His eldest son, Jehan Khan, was killed during the blockade of 1901. He has left two other sons, and these will doubtless maintain the reputation of the family.”—Pioneer Mail, August 11th, 1911. 138. 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