https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Hyder_ShahHyder Shah - Revision history2026-08-08T10:08:37ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Hyder_Shah&diff=373944&oldid=prevBot at 10:18, 8 August 20212021-08-08T10:18:16Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|British Indian Army soldier}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}<br />
'''Hyder Shah''' was a member of the [[British Indian Army]] who in 1870 traveled as a secret agent through the princely states of [[Swat (princely state)|Swat]] and [[Dir (princely state)|Dir]] and [[Badakhshan]].<br />
<br />
==1870 expedition==<br />
Hyder Shah was a [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] [[Muslim]] from the town of [[Kohat]] south of [[Peshawar]]. Hyder Shah was known in British literature as "the Havildar", an alias derived from his rank, [[havildar]], or [[sepoy]] [[noncommissioned officer]] in the [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]. He was recruited for a mission to explore [[Central Asia]] by a Major Pollock, the [[Commissioner of Peshawar]], while he was in the services of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Maunsell, commandant of the Sappers and Miners. Hyder Shah's direct commander during the mission was [[Thomas George Montgomerie]], who was in charge of recruiting and sending spies into [[Xinjiang]], Bukhara, and Badakhshan. Montgomerie ordered Hyder Shah to travel north from Peshawar through Swat and Dir to [[Chitral]] and then cross the [[Hindu Kush]] into [[Badakhshan]]. From Badakhshan he was to attempt to pass over the [[Oxus River]] and explore [[Bukharan Emirate|Bukhara]] and [[Kokand Khanate|Kokand]]. On 12 August 1870 Hyder Shah and several assistants left Peshawar. They passed through Swat, Dir and Chitral and passed into Badakhshan. But at [[Faizabad]] they learned poor weather would not permit passage over the Oxus and therefore the plans to travel to [[Bukhara]] and [[Kokand]] were scuttled. Hyder Shah and his party retraced their route and on 13 December 1870 they returned to Peshawar.<ref name=waller>[[Derek J. Waller]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PYqWhpyoQsoC The Pundits : British exploration of Tibet and Central Asia]. [[Lexington, Kentucky]]: [[University Press of Kentucky]], 1990.pp. 84-94</ref><br />
<br />
In 1872 Montgomerie published an account of Hyder Shah's travels in the [[Journal of the Royal Geographical Society]].<ref name=jrgs>[[Thomas George Montgomerie|T. G. Montgomerie]], "A Havildar's Journey through Chitral to Faizabad in 1870," [[Journal of the Royal Geographical Society]]. vol. 42, 1872, pp. 180–201</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shah, Hyder}}<br />
[[Category:Pashtun people]]<br />
[[Category:British Indian Army soldiers]]<br />
[[Category:Explorers of Central Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Year of death missing]]<br />
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]</div>Bot