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A mere glance at the map is not adequate to understand the tribal dispositions, the natural divisions, the artificial frontiers, and the character of the country of which the North-West frontier was made up. It needs an indepth investigation by exploring the region both politically and geographically. The North-West Frontier Province of British India was formed in 1901, out of the trans-Indus districts of the Punjab. However, unprecedented events that took place ...
The interest of the British Public had been centred on the internal problems of the Indian Empire, and chiefly those connected with the Hindu portion of the population. As a result of the alarming wave of sedition that swept over Bengal, accompanied by Brahmanical revivals, in the two Presidencies, the affairs of the North-West Frontier, with the Mahommedan subjects of the King-Emperor, had gradually been relegated to a hazardous obscurity, and had not received ...