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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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drawing all troops from the country, and as an instance of
the way in which this may be done, the state of affairs in
Hunza may be described.
What these rough hill-men like above everything else is
being ruled by their own rulers—that is, by members of their
own reigning families—and having their customs kept up
without innovation. In Hunza the people are now ruled
by a member of the family which has sat on the throne for
probably hundreds of years—at any rate, as long as tradition
goes back—and not by the murderer who brought their country
into trouble, but by another son of the murdered father, by
a man liked and respected by them. And not a single custom,
unless raiding can be called a custom, has been interfered with.
In their internal affairs the people are in much the same
condition as when I first passed through the country in 1889.
All cases are brought before the chief now, as then, and the
British officer who resides in the country is only too glad
to be free from the responsibility and trouble of having to
deal with them. In only one respect is control exercised by
the agent of the Government of India, and that is in regard
to the foreign relations of the state. In that one single respect
this country must lose its independence, but that is inevitable.
Even the larger state of Afghanistan has to this extent been
compelled to lose its independence. And little states like
Hunza no longer can remain entirely independent as regards
their foreign affairs. A wise ruler, however, would recognize
the altered conditions which the spread of two great civilized
Powers through Asia has produced, and would seek to form
his relations with the suzerain power as much as possible on
the basis of an alliance, and this the new chief of Hunza has
informally done. On two occasions he has been asked by
the political agent to give aid to Government. On the first
occasion I was told by Colonel Durand to ask him and his
neighbour, the chief of Nagar, to give, each, twenty-five men,
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