Publication: Gilgit The Northern Gate of India

Author: Fida Muhammad Husnain

Year of Publication: 1978

Published by: S.K. Ghai, Managing Director, Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd.
AB/9 Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi

As Lord Curzon, the then British Viceroy of India described, “Gilgit is one of the northern gates of India, through which a would-be invader must advance, if he advances at all.”

Important Topics of Book:

• The unique geographical position of Gilgit as a Northern Gate of India in British era.
• The importance of northern areas as a strategic region which was a meeting ground of close neighbors like China, Russia, Afghanistan and India.
• How did the British government encourage the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir to occupy the self-rule northern areas to protect the British interest and then use the area for spying of neighboring countries and keeping an eye on Russian move towards Afghanistan and India.
• The appointments of political agents and establishment of Gilgit Agency.
• The administration and infra structure details like development plans, routes, and communications of northern areas of India.
• The Dogra invasions and Gilgit Memorandum
• Relations of Maharaja with Hunza Nagar, Dir and Chilas.
• Sanads, agreements, treaties with chiefships and state rulers.
• The Dogra’s agreement with Chitral and the British intervention.
• Military Establishment and Imperial Service Troops.
• The Making of Frontier.
• Gilgit Scouts.
• Freedom struggle.
• Lease of Gilgit.
• End of the British Rule
• Retrocession of Gilgit
• Rebellion and accession to Pakistan.

CONTENTS

Preface

Gilgit

Dogra Invasion

British Intervention

Northern Gate of India

Revolution in Gilgit

Appendices

Biography

Index

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