THE POLITICAL SERVICE ON THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA, 1838-99. By a Soldier and Student of the Frontier AFGHANISTAN: THE KEY TO INDIA. By Archibald R. Colquhoun FAMINE IN INDIA: PRECAUTION. By R. Carstairs, I.C.S.
THE BLUE BOOK ON GOVERNMENT CHURCHES IN INDIA. By Sir John Jardine, K.C.I.E. .
THE REVOLT OF THE "BOXERS" IN CHINA. By E. H. Parker. THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF MOROCCO AS AN INDEPENDENT POWER. By Ion Perdicaris
A PLEA FOR THE INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA By G. P. Pillai . THE CONSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS OF ENGLAND AND HER DE- PENDENCIES. By Sir Charles Roe, Kt.
THE " "REFERENDUM IN AUSTRALIA. By G. B. Barton, Sydney
WAS 'ABDU-R-RAHIM THE TRANSLATOR OF BABAR'S MEMOIRS INTO PERSIAN? By H. Beveridge
QUARTERLY REPORT ON SEMITIC STUDIES AND ORIENTALISM By Prof. Dr. E. Montet
DESCENDANTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL IN CALCUTTA. Part II. By Principal C. R. Wilson, M.A.
CONTRIBUTION OF JAINISM TO PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND PROGRESS. By Virchand R. Gandhi.
KOREA, THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT: Traditional, Historical, Descriptive. By Charlotte M. Salwey, M.J.S. PROCEEDINGS OF THE EAST INDIA ASSOCIATION . THE DESIRABILITY OF A DEFINITE RECOGNITION OF THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN GOVERNMENT EDUCATION IN INDIA. By R. Maconachie
THE GARTON LECTURES ON INDIAN AND COLONIAL Agricul TURE IN EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. By Prof. R. Wallace THE CHINESE IMBROGLIO, AND HOW TO GET OUT OF IT. E. H. Parker
MISSIONARY TROUBLES IN CHINA. By Taw Sein Ko THE SULTAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA. By S. H. Fitzjohn A GLIMPSE AT THE GOLD COAST. By Harold Bindloss THE GATHAS. By Prof. L. H. Mills, D.D. BRITISH LAND POLICY IN INDIA (AS REGARDS
By B. H. Baden-Powell, M.A., C.I.E..
THE CATHAYANS. By E. H. Parker
SIAM'S INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA. By Major G. E. Gerini CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.
Jahandar the Axe.The New Indian Decoration.—The Plague in India, and how to get rid of it.-Japan, its Commerce.-Egypt and the Soudan.-South Africa, its People and Trade
Open Letters to Lord Curzon on Famines and Land Assessments in India. --Famines and Land Assessments in India. -Uganda Protectorate.-Uganda Railway.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES Palestinian Syriac Texts.-Ainslie's Ju-Ju, by Harold Bindloss.-Greater Canada The Past, Present, and Future of the Canadian North- West, by E. B. Osborn, B.A., with a map.-The "Oxford English Dictionary" on Historical Principles; founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray, with the assistance of many scholars and men of science.-Geschichte Sibiriens und der Mandschurei, by Albert
Wirth.-A History of Sanskrit Literature, by Arthur A. Mac- donell, M.A., Ph.D., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, and Fellow of Balliol.-The Mysteries of Chronology, by F. F. Arbuthnot.-Innermost Asia: Travel and Sport in the Pamirs (with maps and illustrations), by Ralph P. Cobbold, late 60th Rifles.-Ornaments of the Tajiks from the Highlands of Darwaz, by Count A. Babrinski.-The Romance of Australian Exploring (with maps and illustrations), by G. Firth Scott. The Dhammapada: being a Collection of Moral Verses in Pali, edited by V. Fausboll.-Impressions of South Africa (third edition, revised throughout), by James Bryce, M. P.-South Africa of To-day (with illustrations), by Captain Francis Younghusband, C.I.E., Indian Staff Corps.-The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography (with 176 illustrations and two maps), by J. Deniker, Sc. D. (Paris), Chief Librarian of the Museum of Natural History, Paris, etc.-A Self-Verifying Chrono- logical History of Ancient Egypt, from the Foundation of the Kingdom to the Beginning of the Persian Dynasty: a Book of Startling Discoveries, by Orlando P. Schmidt.-Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., and Mrs. Theodore Bent, with a portrait, maps, and illustrations.-My Jubilee Visit to London, by Subadar Mohammad Beg, Sirdar Bahadur, 1st Madras Lancers; translated by K. Srinavasa Rao, B.A.; edited_by Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. M. Lawford, 1st Madras Lancers.-Two Thousand Miles through South Africa; or, The Transvaal from Without, by Rev. W. T. McCormick
In Moorish Captivity: an Account of the Tourmaline Expedition to Sus, 1897-98, by Henry M. Grey, a member of the expedition.- A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics, translated from the original Pali of the Dhamma-Sangani by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, M.A.-Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der Mongolei, by Dr. A. Grünwedel.-Variétés Sinologiques, No. 17. Inscriptions Juives de K'ai-fong Fu, by Rev. Jerôme Tobar, S.J.- Petit Dictionnaire Français-Chinois, by P. A. Debesse, S.J.-The Oxford English Dictionary: a New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, founded mainly on the Materials collected by the Philo- logical Society, edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray, with the assistance of many scholars and men of science.-China in Decay, by Alexis Krausse. -The Civilization of India, by Romesh C. Dutt, C.I.E.-China, by Professor Robert K. Douglas.--Early Babylonian History down to the end of the Fourth Dynasty of Ur. To which is appended an Account of the E. A. Hoffman Collection of Baby- lonian Tablets in the General Theological Seminary, New York, U.S.A. By the Rev. Hugo Radan, A.M., B.D., Ph.D.-The Siege of Mafeking: a Patriotic Poem, by E. Gilbert Highton, M.A. Cantab. et Oxon., F.R.S. L., Barrister-at-Law. -The South African Conspiracy, or the Aims of Afrikanderdom, by Fred W. Bell, F.S.S.-Sport in War, by Major-General R. S. S. Baden- Powell, F.R.G.S.--Voices in the Night, by Mrs. F. A. Steel.— Am Euphrat und Tigris, by E. Sachau.-Hinduism, Ancient and Modern, by Rai Bahadur Lala Baijnath Rai, B.A.-Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed: the Conspiracy of the Nineteenth Century Unmasked, by C. H. Thomas, of Belfast, Transvaal, formerly Orange Free State Burgher.-Facts and Fancies about Java, by Augusta de Wit. -The Vedanta-Sutras with the Sri Bhashya of Rāmānuja Acharya, translated into English by M. Rangacharya, M. A., and M. B. Varadaraja Aiyangar, B.A., B. L., vol. i.-Keshub: the Reconciler of Pure Hinduismi and Pure Christianity, by Pandit Gour Gobind Roy Upadhyaya. -Village Life in China: a Study in Sociology, by Arthur H. Smith, D.D., author of "Chinese Characteristics."-Le Haut Yang-tsze, by Rev. S. Chevalier, S.J.-Open Letters to Lord Curzon on Famines and Land Assestments in India, by Romesh C. Dutt, C.I.E., Lecturer on Indian History at University College, London, etc.-Fort St. George, Madras, by Mrs. Frank Penny
SUMMARY OF EVENTS IN ASIA, AFRICA AND THE COLONIES
Asiatic Quarterly Quarterly Review,
AND ORIENTAL AND COLONIAL RECORD.
THE POLITICAL SERVICE ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER OF INDIA, 1838-1899.*
BY A SOLDIER AND STUDENT OF THE FRONTIER.
IN the hour of need England expects every man to do his duty; and every true man does it, as the history of the Anglo-Saxon all the world over can tell. When duty calls, political officer, civilian, doctor, every man of English blood, must fight for himself and his country. All honour to those who have fulfilled this duty when the call came! The name Chitral is, and long will be, a monument of duty so
* Works consulted (among many others) :
1. "Chitral: the History of a Minor Siege," by Sir George S. Robertson, K.C.S.I. London, 1898.
2. "The Chitral Campaign," by H. C. Thomson. London, 1895.
3. "The Relief of Chitral," by Captains G. J. and F. E. Younghusband. London, 1895.
4. "With Kelly to Chitral," by Lieutenant W. G. L. Beynon. London, 1896.
5. "The History of the Indian Administration of Lord Ellenborough, in his Correspondence with the Duke of Wellington," edited by Lord Colchester. London, 1874.
6. "Life of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., Constable of the Tower," by Charles Rathbone Low. London, 1873. 7. "Memoirs of Major-General Sir William Nott, G.C.B.," by J. H. Stocqueler. London, 1854.
8. "An Official Account of the Chitral Expedition, 1895," compiled by Captain W. R. Robertson. Calcutta, 1898.
9. "The Making of a Frontier," by Col. A. Durand, C.B., C.I.E. 1900. 10. "Lord Lytton's Indian Administration," by Lady Betty Balfour. THIRD SERIES. VOL. X.
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