Word: waziristan
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...twelve paces of the Throne, Sir Evelyn Howell, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, loudly asked viceregal assent to proceed with creation of the new Governor's Province and with the installation as Governor of Lieut. Col. Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, recently the British Resident of Waziristan* but formerly a popular British officer in Peshawar...
...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...