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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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benefit, for Nizam, like most Oriental rulers, was a very selfish
man; but even then their adoption would have done much
good in the country, by showing the people some higher
standard, either of comfort or convenience, to which they might
aspire. He had already begun to improve his house, and he
was most anxious to get a few native masons up from India
to teach his people to build properly, and, with the marble which
is to be obtained within a few miles from Chitral, to build a
good house for himself. He wanted his men taught blasting,
too, so as to be able to construct watercourses by which new
lands could be irrigated, and he was always asking me if I
could not have up some one to drive artesian wells to irrigate
a large plain above Chitral. With a British officer beside him,
therefore, to advise him, and keep him from branching out
into any useless expenditure, he might have done much good
work.
In dealings between him and the British Government much
good accrued from his visit to India. The great art in dealing
with these wild chiefs is to guide them and make use of them
without actually employing force. The British Government
does not wish to destroy their independence, and, in fact, would
be only too pleased if they were really strong enough to be
absolutely independent. But they are not, and never could be,
strong enough for this; and, as they are the neighbours of a
great empire, the rulers of that empire have to ask certain things
of them, the chief of which, as I stated above, is that they
should place their foreign relations under the control of the
suzerain Power. Nizam had been to India, he knew the re-
sources of Government, and he knew that his interests lay in
the preservation of a close alliance with the British. He, there-
fore, always acted with that object. By far the larger number
of his people did not, however, know the real strength of
Government, and when Nizam was murdered at the beginning
of 1895, they rashly plunged their country into a war with
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