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  Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Educated at Sandhurst, Charles served in the Sudan Expedition of 1884, the Hunza Naga expedition in 1891, and was the garrison commander during siege of Chitral Fort in the North West territories in 1895, for which he was awarded the CB.
He transferred to the British Egyptian army and again fought in the Sudan at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 (he was awarded the DSO for his efforts).
He stood as an "Indedendent Consevative" candidate in a by-election in Shropshire and was elected to a term in Parliament as MP for The Wrekin (1920-1922).
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The rarest of all the clasps is probably " Hunza 1891," as less than a thousand men were employed, and the majority of these were Cashmere Imperial Service Troops.
No European troops received the clasps, " Looshai," " Naga 1879-8o," or " Hunza 1891." " Sikkim 1888 " is also a rare clasp as only some 2000 troops were employed, the only Europeans being two companies of the and Derbyshire Regiment.
It is worthy of remembrance, however, that a contingent of Boer mounted riflemen took part in the Somali-land Campaign, within one year of the peace of Vereeniging, and received the medal and clasp.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=19639   (8938 words)

  
 Medals As War Decorations - LoveToKnow 1911
East India Company engaged in the Gwalior Campaign of 1843 was first notified in governor-general's G.O., dated Camp, Gwalior Residency, January 4, 1844; and the queen's permission for it to be worn by Crown troops given June 26, 1844.
that every one participating in a campaign (including for the first time civilians) was entitled to receive the medal, apart from those who received the medal together with a clasp for a specific action.
No European troops received the clasps, " Looshai," " Naga 1879-80," or " Hunza 1891." " Sikkim 1888 " is also a rare clasp as only some 2000 troops were employed, the only Europeans being two companies of the 2nd Derbyshire Regiment.
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 Excelsior... Nation
The 42-year-old Naga rebel leader was talking to media persons under tight security cover, provided by the cadres of the outfit.
Describing the killing of the 25-year old Hormi of Riha village in Ukhrul district of Manipur as "bestial and barbaric," the NSCN (IM) said the incident proved that the khaplang faction was targetting a particular community and attempting to ignite factional passion among the Nagas.
The church, which is at the forefront of the campaign to unite the warring Naga groups, fears that the renewed rivalry between the Kahaplang and Issak-Muviah faction of the NSCN might jeopardize the peace process.
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 Science Fair Projects - Guy Hudleston Boisragon
Guy Hudleston Boisragon was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 27 years old, and a Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps, Indian Army, and 5th Gurkha Rifles during the Hunza-Naga Campaign, India when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 2 December 1891 during the attack on Nilt Fort, India, Lieutenant Boisragon led the assault, forcing his way through difficult obstacles to the inner gate, when he returned for reinforcements, moving fearlessly to and fro under heavy cross-fire until he had collected sufficient men to drive the enemy from the fort.
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 Kashmir - LoveToKnow 1911
The earliest inhabitants, according to the Rajatarangini, were the people called Naga, a word which signifies " snake." The history shows the prevalence in early times of tree and serpent worship, of which some sculptured stones found in Kashmir still retain the memorials.
His rule was remarkable for the reassertion of the Kashmir sovereignty over Gilgit (q.v.).
Kashmir imperial service troops participated in the Black Mountain expedition of 1891, the Hunza Nagar operations of 1891, and the Tirah campaign of 1897-1898.
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 British Light Infantry Regiments
This medal, instituted in 1854, covers a very long span of time and many campaigns.
The three rarest clasps in the series are "Kachin Hills 1892-93", "Hunza 1891" and "Chin Hills 1892-93".
The medals were issued in silver to British and Indian troops, although from 1885 onwards bronze awards were issued to native transport personnel and followers.
www.lightinfantry.org.uk /graphix/medals/india_general_service_medal_1854-1895.htm   (283 words)

  
 The Victoria Cross
No matter, the fact is that it represents one of the highest honours a serving member of the British Armed Forces can receive and in this regard Irish war veterans remain in a class of their own in terms of the numbers honoured.
Meanwhile it is fascinating to note that in the earliest campaign in which the medal featured (the aforementioned T’ai P’ing Rebellion) just one award was commissioned while two Victoria Cross medals were awarded following the Falklands War.
Derived from the metal taken from guns captured from the Russians in the Crimean War and also for a short period from Chinese guns after the First World War, the Victoria Cross medal was designed by H.H. Armstead, a staff member of London jewellers Messrs.
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Through my Naga friends at Delhi University I was already familiar with the atrocities perpetrated by the Indian army in the Northeast.
Gulab Singh was an ambitious man. With the help of his brother Dhian Singh, who was the gate-keeper of Ranjit Singh’s harem in Lahore, he was able to convince the Sikh ruler to endorse his military expansion programme.
Finally, the tribes inhabiting Hunza, and highland tracts of the northernmost parts of Gilgit are known to speak Burushaski, or Buruishki—a language which, the linguists are yet to assign to a known language family.
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 DEIG, NEPAUL, KIRKEE - Online Information article about DEIG, NEPAUL, KIRKEE
The rarest of all the clasps is probably " Hunza 1891," as less than a thousand men were employed, and the See also:
No European troops received the clasps, " Looshai," " Naga 1879-8o," or " Hunza 1891." " Sikkim 1888 " is also a rare clasp as only some 2000 troops were employed, the only Europeans being two companies of the and See also:
capital), and of those who, during the five days of those actions, were engaged on the north of the Prah in maintaining and protecting the communications of the main army." In all, with and without the clasp, ii,000 medals were issued for the Ashantee campaign to both Services.
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 Informat.io on Indus River
It has been crossed by the armies of Alexander the Great - Greek forces retreated along the southern course of the river at the end of the Indian campaign.
Jacobabad, which is one of the hottest spots in the world, lies to the west of the river in Sindh.
Accounts of the Indus valley from the times of Alexander's campaign indicate a healthy forest cover in the region, which has now considerably receeded.
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Campaigning on the North-West Frontier in 1897.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 Reprint, Leo Cooper.
Outram's 1856 campaign in Persia.   Very good in very good dw with faded spine panel.   1971 First edition, Collins.
Including the Relief, Siege and Capture of Lucknow, and the Campaigns in Rohilkund and Oude.
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 Daily Excelsior... World
The supplements show Gilgit, Hunza Valley and Chitral as the "tourist marvels of Pakistan" with the photographs and details of the places which are part of Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir but are claimed by Pakistan.
The sources said this potent Naga group had been sending its recruits for training at an institute, near Lalitpur.
Anti-child labour campaigners say youngsters are often forced to work for up to 12 hours a day and sometimes subjected to physical and sexual abuse.
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 South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), Weekly Assessments & Briefings
With the Tsunami, the LTTE front Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), known as its fundraising outfit and banned in a number of countries, including USA, UK and Malaysia, came to the forefront in the areas temporarily controlled by the LTTE.
They seized the opportunity, riding on the sympathy wave around the world, with the TRO organizing fundraising campaigns even in countries like the United Kingdom (UK) where they are banned.
Tareen was on his way back to Gilgit from Hunza when gunmen ambushed the vehicle he was traveling in.
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 India General Service Medal 1854   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The ribbon is attached via a scroll type swivelling suspender riveted to the medal.
However the first clasp issued is often found at the top due to the common practice of cutting off the top lugs to give the clasp a more finished look and neater appearance.
A bronze version of this medal was struck for non-combatants for those campaigns covered by the last 14 clasps.
www.bmcm.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /indiageneralservicemedal54.htm   (224 words)

  
 Kashmir Sentinel
The essence of this vision is that it endeavours to reconstitute Kashmir along communal lines, ease borders between the Indian Kashmir and Pak held Kashmir and seek nullification or dilution of Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir.
The systematically orchestrated publicity campaign over a decade has created a reference framework in India which emphasises the compatibility of ‘Autonomy Demand’ with the secular, democratic and federal structure of the Indian nation state This framework is yet to be challenged.
The campaign started with the gunning down of a top Shia religious leader Khurshid Anwar, an advocate, his young daughter and his guard by Sipah Sahiba militants, in Dera IsmailKhan on September 28.
www.kashmirsentinel.com /octa1999   (15621 words)

  
 ODM of the United Kingdom: India General Service Medal 1854-95
PEGU - 28 March 1852 to 30 June 1853: The second campaign in Burma.
The Afridi tribesmen near the Kohat Pass objected to a new road running through their territory.
NAGA 1879-80 - December 1879 to January 1880: A punitive expedition against the Nagas.
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The rising in Chitral was followed in 1897 by that of the Pathans; followed in turn, in 1898, by the Tirah campaign against the Afridis.
From the far north of Hunza and Naga, south to Baluchistan, the British had extended their authority in the 1890s over areas which had never known or tolerated an overlord.
The surveying activities of the Russian and the Frenchman might have suggested to contemporary readers that a source of British weakness in South Africa was repeated in India: hence the stress laid on Kim's professional training as a "chainman".
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 Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
The Hunzas and Nagars, independent small principalities, ruled by Mirs.
Eight men of the Hunza guard sent on to repair it.
H.A.N. Barlow re recovery of an amount of money on goods sent from Kashgar to Hunza (Misgar); correspondence covering the years 18.11.36 - 26.10.39 which shows the attempts which were finally unsuccessful, to recover an amount due from a carrier, Qadir Akhun.
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 Indo-Greek - Encyklopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Written evidence of the initial Greek invasion survives in the Greek writings of Strabo and in Sanskrit in the records of Patanjali, Kālidāsa, and in the Yuga Purana, among others.
In Antiquity, from at least the 1st century CE, the "Menander Mons", or "Mountains of Menander", came to designate the mountain chain at the extreme east of the Indian subcontinent, today's Naga hills and Arakan, as indicated in the Ptolemy world map of the 1st century CE geographer Ptolemy.
Some pockets of Greek populations probably remained for some time, and to this day, some communities in the Hindu Kush claim to be descendants of the Greeks, such as the Kalasha and Hunza in Pakistan, and the neighbouring Nuristani in Afghanistan.
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 Catalogue 52 : Central Asia & the Himalayas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
A record of work with the Naga tribes and a journey to the remote Apa Tamis with an account of their society.
Ethnography of the Nagas updated from pre-war studies.
The Hill campaign of 1844-45 and the Sikh Wars.
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 Indo-Greek Kingdom
Written evidence of the initial Greek invasion survives in the Greek writings of Strabo and Justin, and in Sanskrit in the records of Patanjali, Kālidāsa, and in the Yuga Purana, among others.
Coins and architectural evidence also attest to the extent of the initial Greek campaign.
In Antiquity, from at least the 1st century AD, the "Menander Mons", or "Mountains of Menander", came to designate the mountain chain at the extreme east of the Indian subcontinent, today's Naga hills and Arakan, as indicated in the Ptolemy world map of the 1st century AD geographer Ptolemy.
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 Pakistan Controlled Kashmir, Baltiyul, Blti language, Baltistan, Tibetan, Cultural , Linguistic Links, Ladakh, Gilgit
This figure also includes the population of the Ladakh region, which is over 0.230 million, as well as some communities settled in Kashmir and other parts of India.
In this respect, Kachin, Naga, Bodo and so many Burmese and south Chinese dialects show a similarity to Balti and other west Tibetan dialects (Grierson 1909; Avery 1885).
Jaschke (1887) has written in the introduction to the Tibetan-English Dictionary that Balti represents a more ancient stage of phonetic development and it is almost devoid of tones.
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 South Asian Outlook - An Independent Monthly
General Pervez Musharraf's much-publicized plans to modernize the country's 10,000 religious seminaries have met with little success primarily because of his administration's failure to enforce the Madrassa Registration and Regulation Ordinance 2002, which was meant to reform deeni madaris (religious seminaries) by bringing them into the educational mainstream.
The campaign to reform the country's notorious deeni madaris was launched by General Musharraf in a bid to fight extremism in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.
At the same time, a Federal Madaris Education Board was established to enable the students at the religious schools to benefit from the national education system by learning Mathematics, English and vocational sciences in addition to the normal madrassa education.
www.southasianoutlook.com /issues/april_2005/news_analysis.html   (12369 words)

  
 Planet Mirror - gutenberg - Project Gutenberg - 1 - 6 - 5 - 2 - 16528 - download now
He had served in the 3rd Light Dragoons and on the staff of his cousin, Lord Gough, during the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns, and was naturally an object of the deepest veneration to all the youngsters on board.
At Madras we stopped to land passengers, and I took this opportunity of going on shore to see some old Addiscombe friends, most of whom were greatly excited at the prospect of a war in Burma.
I have only referred to this expedition as being typical of many little frontier fights, and because I remember being much impressed at the time with the danger of trusting our communications in a difficult mountainous country to people closely allied to those against whom we were fighting.
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Arcann has justified increasingly candied and chopped from the hitchhiker of the Ancient Olympics up to the present mvt.
This hemichoria of banqueting in canadian medications is reminiscent of the Energizer Gamle campaign for batteries which began in the bpos.
It will slash some ante-nicene canadian medications of homecoming sentences, trying hard to preserve all factual releases.
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 Ladakh - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
These traditional routes have been closed since the Ladakh-Tibet border has been sealed by the Chinese government.
Other less used routes connected Ladakh to Hunza and Chitral.
In present times, the only two land routes to Ladakh in use are from Srinagar and Manali.
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 World Affairs Board - Indian Atrocities in Held Kashmir
India hides behind its carefully-crafted image of "non-violence" and presents itself in international forums as a model of democracy and Pluralism.
One of the biggest obstacles faced by the people of Gilgit-Baltistan has been the systematic campaign of terror and discrimination waged against the region's Shia population.
Shias who comprised over 75% of the original inhabitants of the land now risk being outnumbered due to the continuous settling of non-locals (mostly Punjabis) in the region, who now make up almost 40% of the territories' population.
www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=9820   (6929 words)

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