Bazar
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Bazar
Valley in the Khyber Political Agency, North-West Frontier Province, running east and west between the Surghar range on the south, the Ilacha Ghar or eastern extension of the Safed Koh on the east, and the Turo Sar range to the north, between 33° 38' and 35° N. and 70° 37' and 71° E. Its elevation ranges from 3,000 to 4,000 feet, and that of the enclosing hills from 5,000 to 7,000 feet.
The valley is sterile in the extreme, save where the village lands are irrigated from the hill streams. The people are Afridis of the notorious Zakka Khel or clan, the most active thieves on the frontier, against whom on three occasions punitive expeditions have been sent. In 1878 their attacks on the line of communications in the Khyber during the second Afghan War compelled a punitive expedition. Major Cavagnari led an armed body of Kuki Khel Afridis, supported by guns, against them, and inflicted some punishment ; but a regular expedition followed in December, which effectively chastised them at small cost of life. Nevertheless the clan continued to give trouble, and another expedition had to be sent into the valley in 1879, after which the clan submitted. In 1897 two columns under Sir William Lockhart entered the valley by the Chora and Ilacha passes at its eastern extremity, and destroyed the principal villages.
