"The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War" by Winston Churchill. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Winston Churchill. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I: THE THEATRE OF WAR
CHAPTER II: THE MALAKAND CAMPS
CHAPTER III: THE OUTBREAK
CHAPTER IV: THE ATTACK ON THE MALAKAND
CHAPTER V: THE RELIEF OF CHAKDARA
CHAPTER VI: THE DEFENCE OF CHAKDARA
CHAPTER VII: THE GATE OF SWAT
CHAPTER VIII: THE ADVANCE AGAINST THE MOHMANDS
CHAPTER IX: RECONNAISSANCE
CHAPTER X: THE MARCH TO NAWAGAI
CHAPTER XI: THE ACTION OF THE MAMUND VALLEY, 16TH SEPTEMBER
CHAPTER XII: AT INAYAT KILA
CHAPTER XIII: NAWAGAI
CHAPTER XIV: BACK TO THE MAMUND VALLEY
CHAPTER XV: THE WORK OF THE CAVALRY
CHAPTER XVI: SUBMISSION
CHAPTER XVII: MILITARY OBSERVATIONS
CHAPTER XVIII. AND LAST.: THE RIDDLE OF THE FRONTIER
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Winston Churchill
Published by Good Press, 2019
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All are held in the grip of miserable superstition. The power of the ziarat, or sacred tomb, is wonderful. Sick children are carried on the backs of buffaloes, sometimes sixty or seventy miles, to be deposited in front of such a shrine, after which they are carried back—if they survive the journey—in the same way. It is painful even to think of what the wretched child suffers in being thus jolted over the cattle tracks. But the tribesmen consider the treatment much more efficacious than any infidel prescription. To go to a ziarat and put a stick in the ground is sufficient to ensure the fulfillment of a wish. To sit swinging a stone or coloured glass ball, suspended by a string from a tree, and tied there by some fakir, is a sure method of securing a fine male heir. To make a cow give good milk, a little should be plastered on some favorite stone near the tomb of a holy man. These are but a few instances; but they may suffice to reveal a state of mental development at which civilisation hardly knows whether to laugh or weep.
Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood—"Mullahs," "Sahibzadas," "Akhundzadas," "Fakirs,"—and a host of wandering Talib-ul-ilms, who correspond with the theological students in Turkey, and live free at the expense of the people. More than this, they enjoy a sort of "droit du seigneur," and no man's wife or daughter is safe from them. Of some of their manners and morals it is impossible to write. As Macaulay has said of Wycherley's plays, "they are protected against the critics as a skunk is protected against the hunters." They are "safe, because they are too filthy to handle, and too noisome even to approach."
