R.G.S.: Route from Peshawur through Chitral to Faizabad in Badakshan
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Cartographer:
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R.G.S.
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Title:
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Route from Peshawur through Chitral to Faizabad in Badakshan
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Date:
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1872
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Published:
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London
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Width:
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13 inches / 34 cm
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Height:
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14 inches / 36 cm
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Map ref:
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IC1873
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Description:
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Detailed map showing the route from Peshawar, Pakistan to Fayzabad, Afghanistan taken by 'Sapper Havildar' to illustrate a paper by Major Thomas George Montgomerie.
Sapper Havildar, also known as the ‘Pundit’, or his name Hyder Shah, was a British Indian Army officer and secret agent. In 1870, he was recruited by the then Commissioner of Peshawar, Major Pollock, then trained and under the command of Major Thomas George Montgomerie (1830-1878) to establish a route from Peshawar through Swat and Dir to the city of Chitrāl, through the Hindu Kush into Badakhshan and onto pass the Oxus River to Bukhara and Kokand (in modern-day Uzbekistan).
Poor weather prevented the further journey from passing Fayzabad (Faizabad) in Badakshan, northeast Afghanistan on to Bukhara and Kokand, so Shah and his small team retraced their route back to Peshawar.
This map would have originally accompanied an account, presented by Montgomerie, of Hyder Shah’s journey published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.
Original outline colour. [[IC1873] |