. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Gilgit and byother British officers, re-established its supremacy over the petty states ofHunza and Nagar, in the neighbourhood of Gilgit, which it claimed as feuda-tories. The former chieftains were deposed, and others, more friendly to theBritish government, replaced them. In 1893 the frontiers of Afghanistan andBritish India were defined by a joint agreement between the two govern-ments. There followed on the part of th
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Gilgit and byother British officers, re-established its supremacy over the petty states ofHunza and Nagar, in the neighbourhood of Gilgit, which it claimed as feuda-tories. The former chieftains were deposed, and others, more friendly to theBritish government, replaced them. In 1893 the frontiers of Afghanistan andBritish India were defined by a joint agreement between the two govern-ments. There followed on the part of the British authorities, interference inChitral, which had fallen to India, ending in an expedition in 1895 and theejection of the local chiefs in favour of candidates amenable to British influence. A more formidable hostile combination, however, awaited the governmentof India. By the agreement of 1893 with the amir most of the Waziri clan,the Bajouris, and the Afridis had been left outside the limits of the amirsinfluence and transferred to the British zone. Soon after that date the estab-lishment of the British military authorities of posts within the Waziri country. -xiC%p-^- 222 THE HISTOEY OF BRITISH INDIA [1889-1904 ] had led to apprehension on the part of the local tribesmen. In 1895 the occu-pation of points within the Swat territory for the safety of the road from Indiato Chitral similarly roused the suspicion of the Swatis. The Waziris andSwatis successively rose in arms, in June and July, 1897, and their example was followed by the Moh-mands. Finally, in Au-gust the powerful Afriditribe joined the combina-tion and closed the Khyberpass, which runs throughtheir territory, and whichwas held by them, on con-ditions, in trust for the gov-ernment of India. This ledto the military operationsknown as the Tirah cam-paign, which proved verycostly both in men andmoney. It was not tillFebruary, 1898, that hos-tilities finally ceased alongthe border, with a totalBritish loss i
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