The Making of a Frontier
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0195779835
Length
xxii+298p., 23cm.
Subjects
While dealing with the British frontier history in 19 century a stretch of frontier known as the region of the Eastern Hindu Kush occupies a special importance. It comprised the districts and states of Baltistan or Little Tibet, Gilgit, Hunza and Nagar, Chitral, and the Indus Valley from Bunji to Sazin. Almost all of these were either directly under the rule of, or tributary to, Kashmir, one of the most important native states of British India. The importance of ...