The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900

by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford

• ISBN13: 9781108046220
• ISBN10: 1108046223
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

An English geographer of great distinction, Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1843-1929) is best remembered as Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in British India. He served on a number of boundary commissions including the one on Afghanistan that settled the country's border with British India in 1884-6. He was also invited by the governments of Argentina and Chile in 1892 to define their boundary along the Andes Mountains. Holdich wrote and lectured extensively on geographical issues in the later part of his life. In 1887 his work on the Afghan frontier received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (of which he was President from 1917 to 1919). This work of 1901 describes the geography and border disputes of the north-west frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which Holdich himself fought. The book also contains illustrations, and an appendix that provides a short history of Afghanistan.

Table of Contents

Preface

First phase of the Afghan War of 1879âÇô80

The second phase of the Afghan War of 1879âÇô80

Waziristan

The Takht-i-Suliman

The Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission

The Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission

The Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission

Developments in Baluchistan

Southern Baluchistan and Persian Gulf

The 'Durand' boundary

Kunar Valley

Kafirstan

Pamirs

Perso-Baluch boundary

North-west frontier

Tirah

Conclusion

Appendix

Index

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