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Updated: May 24, 2025
Since I wish for respect, I will call myself Khan. Name me a village the first name you can think of quick!" "Kurram," said Ismail, at a hazard. "Kurram is good. Kurram I am! Kurram Khan is my name henceforward! Kurram Khan the dakitar!" "But where is the sahib who came from the fort to talk?" asked the man whose stomach ached yet from Ismail and Darya Khan's attentions to it.
The devotion of the Kurram column to its chief was soon put to the test. After advancing up that valley, girt on both sides with lofty mountains and scored with numerous gulleys, the force descried the Peiwar Kotal Pass at its head a precipitous slope furrowed only in one place where a narrow zigzag path ran upwards through pines and giant boulders.
"Oh, as for that," he said, salaaming again in the fastidious manner of a native gentleman, "I know no other tongue than Pashtu and my own Rajasthani. My name is Kurram Khan. I ask admittance." He held up his wrist to show the gold bracelet, and high over his head the Rangar laughed like a bell. "Shabash!" he laughed. "Well done! Enter, Kurram Khan, and be welcome, thou and thy men.
Close to the ramp they stopped, and the front man, cocking his head to one side as only birds and the newly blind do, gave voice again in nasal singsong. "Will none tell me where is the great, good, wise hakim Kurram Khan?" "I am he," said King, and he stepped down toward him, calling to an assistant to come and bring him water and a sponge.
At length General Roberts was able to advance up the Kurram Valley and carry the Shutargardan Pass by storm, an exploit fully equal to his former capture of the Peiwar Kotal in the same mountain range.
King did not answer, so he continued after a pause. "You shall pass behind that curtain, if you insist. Beyond it you shall know what she knows about Ali Masjid and your brother's head! You shall know all that she knows! There shall be no secrets between you and her! She shall translate the meaning of her song to you! But you shall never come out again King of the Khyber Rifles, or Kurram Khan!
In the tribal area we are faced with the task of controlling the wild tribesmen. This control varies from practically direct administration as in the Lower Swat and Kurram valleys to the most shadowy political influence, as in the remote highlands of Upper Swat and the Dir Kohistan, where the foot of white man has seldom trod.
And wisdom was rewarded now, for the Pathan, who would have dried up under eager questioning, grew talkative. Civility and volubility are sometimes one, and not always only among the civilized. King the hakim Kurram Khan blinked mildly behind his spectacles and looked like one to whom a savage might safely ease his mind.
The column of the centre, acting from Kohat as a base against the Kurram Valley, was commanded by a general destined to win renown in the later phases of the war. Major-General Roberts represented all that was noblest and most chivalrous in the annals of the British Army in India.
They had once been decorated with figures in gold leaf, but only a little patch of yellow here and there remained to hint at faded glories. He decided to remember his manners again, and at least to make opportunity for an invitation. "Kurram Khan hai!" he announced, forgetting the echo. But the echo was the only answer.
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