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Excerpt from The Pathan Borderland: A Consecutive Account of the Country and People on and Beyond the Indian Frontier From Chitral to Dera Ismail Khan, With Map Military and Political sense, and the recruiting areas are no longer what they were. Our ideas as to the values of various races as soldiers have changed with more intimate experience. Nevertheless, it seems desirable that the original character of this book should be retained now that a demand is made for a second edition. Writers more in touch with recent events will write of the frontier as it is. The Patham Borderland represents it as it was at the period of its maximum efficiency and stability before the present state of transition supervened. The notes on the distribution of our forces, the table showing the state of recruiting in 1908, and especially the Appendix giving the strength of our Levies and Militias as they originally existed, are of special interest now that a Pathan War, an Afghan War and two Waziri Wars have intervened. I have therefore reproduced them here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.