Download or read book Chitr l written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1898 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chitral 1895 written by Mark Simner and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blue Eyed Boy of Chitral written by Raafay Awan and published by Raafay Awan. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Story of Major Geoffrey Langlands, a British Army Commando who dedicated his life for the betterment of Pakistan as told to Raafay Awan. "The Quintessential Englishman of old, a living relic of the Raj" - the New York Times
Download or read book With Kelly to Chitral written by William George Laurence Sir Beynon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William George Laurence Beynon pens the war memoir "With Kelly to Chitral" as an account of the daily life of British officers and Indian troops on a frontier expedition. Sir Laurence served as an Intelligence Branch Officer in the British Indian Empire during a tumultuous time particularly in the state of Chitral. When news came of the murder of Nizam-ul-mulk, Mehter of Chitral, a loyal ally, British and Indian troops were dispatched to the Gilgit district under the command of Colonel Kelly to assess the situation. Sir Laurence was one of them and shares his account of the expedition.
Download or read book The Chitral Campaign written by H. C. Thomson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who, or why, or how or what?' opens one of Edward Lear's limericks 'Is the Akond of Swat?' The answer to the question lies within this book - a newspaperman's account of a British military expedition mounted against Chitral, Swat and Bajour in 1895. The Akond was the religious leader of Swat, an area on India's ever turbulent north-west fronteir, renowned for its religious piety and its jealously preserved 'Purdah' (the word literally means 'curtain') which was kept firmly closed against foreign incursions until the campaign narrated in this book. This is an excellent account of a colonial campaign in a tough area where the truculence of the tribespeople towards the British is more than matched by the harshness of the terrain.Thompson's prose is clear and straightforward and the events he recounts exciting and tense. He makes no pretence to be writing an official history, but, what is possibly more valuable, tells a great story. The book is profusely illustrated with some sixty photographs, plus sketches, plans and maps. A must for anyone interested in British India in late Victorian times.
Download or read book The Relief of Chitral written by G. J. Younghusband and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Relief of Chitral" is a book written by two brothers; Major General Sir George John Younghusband and Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband. The book starts with the causes of the civil war in Chitral and ends with an overview of the situation following the success of the relief forces. It explains how the death of Chitrals aging Chief Aman ul-Mulk in 1892 caused uncertain conditions in the region, leading to mutual strife amongst his heirs for the next couple of years.
Download or read book Farmer managed Irrigation Systems in Chitral written by Abdul Hakeem Khan and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living Islam written by Magnus Marsden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular representations of Pakistan's North West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Magnus Marsden is an anthropologist who has immersed himself in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years. His evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. Through an exploration of the everyday experiences of both men and women, he shows that the life of a good Muslim in Chitral is above all a mindful life, enhanced by the creative force of poetry, dancing and critical debate. Challenging much that has been assumed about the Muslim world, this 2005 study makes a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion and politics both within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.
Download or read book The Relief of Chitral written by George John Younghusband and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the Chitral Expedition in 1895.
Download or read book A Social History of India written by S. N. Sadasivan and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan Languages of Chitral written by Calvin Ross Rensch and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris written by Christopher Snedden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain's concerns lay elsewhere -- expansionist Russia, beguiling Tibet and unstable China "circling" J&K -- and their agents played the 'Great Game' in Afghanistan and 'Turkistan'. Snedden contextualizes the geo-strategic and historical circumstances surrounding the British decision to relinquish prestigious 'Kashmir', and explains how they and four Dogra maharajas consolidated and controlled J&K subsequently. He details what comprised this diverse princely state with distant borders and disunified peoples and explains the Maharaja of J&K's controversial accession to India on 26 October 1947 - and its unintended consequences. Snedden weaves a compelling narrative that frames the Kashmir dispute, explains why it continues, and assesses what it means politically and administratively for the divided peoples of J&K and their undecided futures.
Download or read book Indian Army List January 1919 Volume 4 written by Army Headquarters, India and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of 4. The January and July issues of the Indian Army List contain not only the distribution of officers on the active list of the Army in India, including officers of British army regiments, battalions etc stationed in India, but are supplemented by the addition of Orders of Knighthood, Honours and Awards, including Foreign Orders, by the non-effective officer list and the War Services of officers of the Indian Army. Details of each officer include dates of birth (except for wartime commissioned officers), date of first commission, of appointment to the Indian Army and dates of promotion. Officers are grouped according to their rank and by seniority within that rank, and are again shown under their regiments/battalions. In the case of British units, their date of arrival in India is shown, and with Indian units their date of formation and changes in title since, plus details of the backgrounds of men recruited, e.g. Sikhs, Punjabis, Dogras, Rajputs, etc. This army list also includes all native Viceroy Commissioned Officers - Subadar Majors, Subadars and Jemadars - and their war services, Major HQs and their staffs, divisional and brigade commanders and their staffs, schools, colleges, Administrative Departments of the Army are all shown. Non-regular Indian Defence Force units such as 22nd Bengal and North-Western railway Battalion, and the Indian Army Reserve of Officers are all there, along with British Warrant Officers serving in departments of the Indian Army. In 1914 there were 116 Indian and 10 Gurkha Regiments, all with one battalion apart from the cavalry, 32 Indian and one Gurkha regiment had been formed and the majority of the original regiments had raised second and sometimes third battalions. This splendid four-volume work reflects the tremendous contribution made by the Indian Army to the Empire's war effort. A full index is included.
Download or read book The Indian Medical Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyday Life in South Asia written by Diane P. Mines and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated: An “eminently readable, highly engaging” anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University). For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth culture. Clear and engaging writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
Download or read book Pastoral practices in High Asia written by Hermann Kreutzmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and processing concepts. New insights into other aspects of pastoralism such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization theory-led development activities can be observed. Higher inputs from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of 'modern' pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernization programme incorporates resettlement and transformation of lifestyles as to be justified by environmental pressure in order to reduce degradation in the age of climate change.
