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... Kandahar - Effect on India - Russia on English rule in India - Her absurd plan of campaign in 1878 - Where to advance to The Hindu Kush only line for a conterminous frontier - Reasons for our holding Kandahar - Railway link- ing up of ...
... Kandahar - Effect on India - Russia on English rule in India - Her absurd plan of campaign in 1878 - Where to advance to The Hindu Kush only line for a conterminous frontier - Reasons for our holding Kandahar - Railway link- ing up of ...
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... Kandahar , to " the Upper Indus . " Before committing himself to such a hazardous adventure , Napoleon asked Paul how the troops were to be fed between the Caspian and the Indus . Paul replied promptly that supplies would be locally ...
... Kandahar , to " the Upper Indus . " Before committing himself to such a hazardous adventure , Napoleon asked Paul how the troops were to be fed between the Caspian and the Indus . Paul replied promptly that supplies would be locally ...
Side 94
... , locally called Sher Dahan or lion's mouth , which is the highest point on the route from Kabul to Kandahar . North of the Irak pass the Hindu Kush gradually increases in altitude and thickness , 94 ASIATIC NEIGHBOURS .
... , locally called Sher Dahan or lion's mouth , which is the highest point on the route from Kabul to Kandahar . North of the Irak pass the Hindu Kush gradually increases in altitude and thickness , 94 ASIATIC NEIGHBOURS .
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... Kandahar . The descendants of those who remained there are the Abdalis or Durranis of to- day . The Ghilzais , the other great Afghan tribe , are regarded as affiliated and not true Afghans . After their conversion they gradually spread ...
... Kandahar . The descendants of those who remained there are the Abdalis or Durranis of to- day . The Ghilzais , the other great Afghan tribe , are regarded as affiliated and not true Afghans . After their conversion they gradually spread ...
Side 98
... Kandahar and Southern Afghanistan by Persia . The trans - border tribes now within our political but beyond our actual frontier were all along inde- pendent . Early in the eighteenth century the great Ghilzai quer and confederation of ...
... Kandahar and Southern Afghanistan by Persia . The trans - border tribes now within our political but beyond our actual frontier were all along inde- pendent . Early in the eighteenth century the great Ghilzai quer and confederation of ...
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