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 Chitr l written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Presents Gives An Account Of The Geographical Cituation Of Chitral And The Life Of Its People But Also Details The British Government`S Policy Towards This Region. The Whole Story Of Chitral Revolves Around The Circumstances Leading To The Chitral Campaign And Finally Its Siege. The Book Also Presents An Indepth Investigation Of Colonel Kelly`S March Through The Snow And General Robert Low`S Advance From The South As Part Of The Chitral Compaign. Besides, It Also Details An Eye-Witness Account Of The Situation Of The Gilgit District In The Year 1895 As Well As Frontier Politics Being Operative During That Period.
Download or read book Tales of a Lost Kingdom written by Erik L'Homme and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three authentic folktales from the ancient Kingdom of Chitral, collected by the author.
Download or read book Chitr l Charlie written by N. S. Nash and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Townshend achieved international fame, as a captain, when he commanded the besieged garrison at Chitral (now Pakistan) in 1895. As a result, he became known as 'Chitral Charlie'. Decorated by Queen Victoria and lionized by the British public, his passage up through the Army was assured and, in 1916, he was given command on 6th Indian Division and sent to Mesopotamia. Here he won a series of stunning victories as his ill-supported division swept all before it in a devastating advance up the River Tigris. He triumphed brilliantly at Kurna, Amara and Kut but then, against all the tenets of military common sense, he advanced up the River Tigris to take Baghdad. By now overreached, he was confronted by a determined Turkish foe. His Division was depleted and exhausted. Townshend withdrew to Kut, where he was besieged and forced into a humiliating surrender. The mistreatment of the British POWs by the Turks only added to Townshend's shame. This fascinating and objective biography examines Townshend's controversial conduct during and after the siege and assesses whether his dramatic fall from grace and popularity was fair.
Download or read book Chitral the Story of a Minor Siege written by George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chitral is a remote but strategically placed valley 250 miles long, high in the Hindu Kush Mountains. It had been ruled for many years by Mehtar Aman-ul-Mulk, a man with many wives and children until Aman-ul-Mulk died suddenly on 30 August 1892 at age 71. Thirteen of his many sons were considered eligible to claim the right to rule. His sons started killing each other and four of his sons briefly held power before being killed. In 1895, in the middle of this turmoil, a British military delegation arrived in Chitral headed by Surgeon-Major George Scott Robertson. Robertson had been appointed as political agent by the British as a result of his previous visit to Chitral in 1893 and to adjoining Kafirstan and because of his service in the Second Afghan War from 1878 to 1880. Two other groups representing different claimants for the right to rule arrived in Chitral shortly thereafter. The result was that the Robertson Group took control of the Chitral Fort but were placed under siege by the outside groups. Upon learning that one of their commanders was being held under siege or as a hostage, the British met in Calcutta and resolved to break the siege by military force. The British explorer, adventurer and army officer George Scott Robertson was on his second visit to Chitral. His group had been taken hostage and held under siege. This made it necessary for the British to launch a rescue mission. One military group advanced up from Peshawar, through Mardan, Swat and Dir, crossing Lowari Top and reaching the Chitral Fort where Robertson and his group were being held. The British brought with them Gurkhas, who are fierce fighters from Nepal who did most of the fighting. A second group advanced from a different direction, coming up through Gilgit and Gupis, crossing Shandur Top, reaching Mastuj and advancing down the Chitral River to reach Chitral Fort. In so doing, the two groups inadvertently conquered Chitral and all of the places in between, including Swat, Dir and Gupis. They appointed local rulers to govern these places, but they all remained under British control until the Independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. For doing this, George Scott Robertson was knighted by Queen Victoria and became Sir George Scott Robertson.
Download or read book Chitral written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Khowar English Dictionary written by Mohammad Ismail Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khowar is spoken in Northern Pakistan and is the predominant language of Chitral. It is also spoken in Gilgit and Upper Swat. There are reports of Khowar speakers in Tajikistan. The total estimated number of Khowar speakers is 300,000. Chitral has been in the news lately because of the reports that Osama bin Laden is hiding here. We do not believe that he is here, but as long as you think so, it is great for business. Many of us will hire ourselves out as guides, to help you search for Osama, for a good price of course. This dictionary was originally published in the Tribal Area of NWFP Pakistan in 1981. It received a tremendous amount of publicity, of the negative kind, because of the explicit terms that were not commonly found in the dictionaries of Pakistan at that time. At least that made it probably the best known dictionary of a minority language ever published.
Download or read book Parlons khowar written by Erik L'Homme and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C'est la première fois que l'ancien royaume de Chitral fait l'objet d'une publication de cette envergure, mêlant aspects humains et historiques, culturels et linguistiques, et donnant au lecteur des clés inédites pour partir à la découverte d'un autre morceau de notre planète
Download or read book The Relief of Chitral written by George John Younghusband and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Macmillan and co. in 1895 in 250 pages; Subjects: India; Chitral Expedition/ (1895); Chitral expedition/ (1895); Chitr?l District (Pakistan); Chitral, Pakistan; History / General; History / Asia / General; History / Asia / India & South Asia;
Download or read book Chitral written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chitral and Kafiristan written by Mohammad Afzal Khan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passarola Rising written by Azhar Abidi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing a peculiar airship that he uses to escape the intellectually stultifying climate of Portugal, Bartolomeu Loureno and his brother, Alexandre, travel the world in search of the truth, from the salons and bordellos of Ancien Rgime Paris to the Polish kingdom of Stanislaus. A first novel. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Download or read book Chitral The Story of a Minor Siege written by George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chitral written by George S. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chitral: The Story of a Minor Siege The dominant note of Chitral is bigness combined- with desolation; vast silent mountains cloaked in eternal snow, wild glacier-born torrents, cruel precipices, and pastureless hillsides where the ibex and the markhor find a precarious subsistence. It takes time for the mind to recover from the depression which the stillness and melancholy of the giant landscape at first compel. All colour is purged away by the sun-glare; and no birds sing. Life is represented by great eagles and vultures, circling slowly or poised aloft, and by the straight business-like flight of the hawk. The dull, ceaseless roar of the distant river changes, whenever you listen fixedly, to a sound as of supernatural voices shrieking in agony, but too remote for human sympathy. Enclosed in such a mighty frame the space for human life and action seems almost microscopic, so small is the spot it occupies, so completely is it lost in its surroundings. It consists of tiny fan-shaped oases of cultivation on soil deposited by mountain streams, just before they noisily hurl themselves into a main river. These torrents are the tutelary deities as well as the creators of the village holdings, for they provide life and nourishment, through little canals, to the fields, which would otherwise vanish under the rainless sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Chitral written by George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895, at Chitral on the North-West Frontier of the Raj (now northern Pakistan), five hundred troops of the British Indian Army, mostly Sikhs and Kashmiris, defended a fort besieged by tribesmen in far greater numbers. The account of the siege by Sir George Robertson, a surgeon who commanded the fort and won the Victoria Cross for his gallantry, is highly readable even by present-day standards. The story brings to vivid life the region, its people, and the tribal politics that led to Ross's disaster in the Koragh defile, the heroic defence of Reshun, Kelly's great march, and the now nearly forgotten epic siege itself. Events like these may not be popular with those who insist on 'decolonizing history', but our view is that this insistence dismisses the history itself. Many of the heroes of the battle were themselves indigenous, loyal to the Empire. Besides, this book, written soon after the events, gives us deeper insight not only into the conflicts still taking place in the region, but also into the forces that drive jihad against the West. Flame Books is proud to publish this classic of military history, richly illustrated with plans, pictures and portraits. It is a facsimile, reproduced from a first edition not in the best condition. But while it contains the original formatting faults, and others unavoidable in the reproduction process, this should not deter the reader from enjoying what is, in our opinion, a remarkable and gripping story.
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 Chitral The Story Of A Minor Siege written by George S. Robertson and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chitral The Story Of A Minor Siege is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
