Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another kind of show-the kind anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states...
What happened next day (and indeed what happens at any time in the North-West Frontier Province) was not "news" to be lightly observed and reported by correspondents but the subject of Government handouts. According to this the Viceroy showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts...
...durbar was to be in Victoria Memorial Hall. There on a dais the golden Viceregal Throne had been set up. Crowded close to each other on one side of the hall stood 500 frontier Khans, all in their richest gold sashes and blue turbans, all bright-eyed with mass expectancy. On the other side, starchy and aloof, stood 200 British officers and civil servants, many of them battle-scarred oldsters. Present also as Their Excellencies entered and the durbar solemnly began were the 40 who were about to become the Legislative Council...
...third day in Peshawar Viscount Willingdon opened the new North-West Frontier Legislative Council, an ostensibly parliamentary body with little real power. From his golden throne he read a speech on behalf of George V, King & Emperor. Said His Majesty, through His Excellency's lips, "On peace and good government in the North-West Frontier Province depends in great measure the security of India. I look with confidence to the people of the province so to order their affairs that the momentous change which my Viceroy is today inaugurating will conduce to the benefit of their province and India...
...Waziristan sector of the North-West Frontier Province, states The Indian Year Book, "has always been the most difficult of the whole, because of the intractable character of the people...