Hunza-Nagar expedition

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The Hunza-Nagar Expedition , also known as the Hunza-Naga Campaign , was fought in 1891 by British-Indian troops against the rebellious residents of Nagar State . This dispute is called the Anglo Brusho War in Pakistan . The Nagar area is now part of the Gilgit-Baltistan Autonomous Region in Pakistan .

occasion

The Hunza-Nagar expedition was supposedly the reaction to unruly challenges by the rulers of the states of Hunza and Nagar against the British representatives in Gilgit .

Towards the end of the 19th century, British troops began to take land in the tribal areas of India. The local tribes in Nagar responded by armed themselves with rifles and obtained ammunition. The British assumed that Tsarist Russia would join the small mountain states on the northern border with Kashmir in the Great Game .

The British Colonel Algernon George Arnold Durand commanded about 1,000 men with rifles and two cannons in 1891. and gained control of the mountain kingdom of Nagar after his victory at the Battle of Nilt Nagar (Jangir-e-Laye) in 1891. Nilt Fort was stormed and so were the surrounding mountains. The small mountain states of Hunza and Nagar were occupied, a vassal acceptable to the British was installed in Nagar, in Hunza the old Mir (king) was replaced by his half-brother.

After their victory, the British were awarded three Victoria Crosses .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Arms trade on North West Frontier of India 1890-1914 by Dr. Tim Moreman
  2. ^ Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief, Lord Roberts of Kandahar - The Hunza-Nagar Campaign
  3. ↑ Algernon George Arnold Durand, The Making of a Frontier: Five Years' Experiences and Adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral, and the Eastern Hindu-Kush , (2002), (Adamant Media Corporation)

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