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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUNER , a valley on the See also:

Peshawar border of the See also:North-See also:West Frontier See also:Province of See also:India. It is a small See also:mountain valley, dotted with villages and divided into seven sub-divisions. The See also:Mora Hills and the Ilam range See also:divide it from See also:Swat, the Sinawar range from See also:Yusafzai, the Guru mountains from the Chamla valley, and the Duma range from the Puran Valley. It is in-habited by the Iliaszai and Malizai divisions of the See also:Pathan tribe of Yusafzais, who are called after their See also:country the Bunerwals. There is no finer See also:race on the north-west frontier of India than the Bunerwals. See also:Simple and austere in their habits, religious and truthful in their ways, hospitable to all who seek shelter amongst them, See also:free from See also:secret assassinations, they are See also:bright examples of the Pathan See also:character at its best. They are a powerful and warlike tribe, numbering 8000 fighting men. The Umbeyla Expedition of 1863 under See also:Sir See also:Neville See also:Chamberlain was occasioned by the Bunerwals siding with the See also:Hindostani Fanatics, who had settled down at Malka in their territory. In the end the Bunerwals were subdued by a force of 9000 See also:British troops, and Malka was destroyed, but they made so fierce a resistance, in particular in their attack upon the " See also:Crag " See also:picket, that the See also:Indian See also:medal with a clasp for " Umbeyla" was granted in 1869 to the survivors of the expedition. The See also:government of India refrained from interfering with the tribe again until the Buner See also:campaign of 1897 under Sir Bindon See also:Blood. Many Bunerwals took See also:part in the attack of the Swatis on the Malakand fort, and a force of 3000 British troops was sent to punish them; but the tribe made only a feeble resistance at the passes into their country, and speedily handed in the arms demanded of them and made See also:complete submission.

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