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SANDEMAN, SIR ROBERT GROVES (1835-1892)

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SANDEMAN, See also:SIR See also:ROBERT GROVES (1835-1892) , See also:Indian officer and See also:administrator, was the son of See also:General Robert Turnbull Sandeman, and was See also:born on the 25th of See also:February 1835. He was educated at See also:Perth and St See also:Andrews University, and joined the 33rd See also:Bengal See also:Infantry in 1856. When that See also:regiment was disarmed at Phillour by General See also:Nicholson during the See also:Mutiny in 1857, he took See also:part in the final See also:capture of See also:Lucknow as See also:adjutant of the 1th Bengal Lancers. After the suppression of the Mutiny he was appointed to the See also:Punjab See also:Commission by Sir See also:John See also:Lawrence. In 1866 he was appointed See also:district officer of Dera See also:Ghazi See also:Khan, and there first showed his capacity in dealing with the Baluch tribes. He was the first to break through the See also:close-border See also:system of See also:Lord Lawrence, by extending See also:British See also:influence to the See also:independent tribes beyond the border. In his hands this policy worked admirably, owing to his tact in managing the tribesmen and his See also:genius for See also:control. In 1876 he negotiated the treaty with the khan of KaIat, which subsequently governed the relations between See also:Kalat and the Indian See also:government; and in 1877 he was made See also:agent to the See also:governor-general in See also:Baluchistan, an See also:office which he held till his See also:death. During the second Afghan See also:War in 1878 his influence over the tribesmen was of the utmost importance, since it enabled him to keep intact the See also:line of communications with See also:Kandahar, and to control the tribes after the British disaster at See also:Maiwand. For these services he was made K.C.S.I. in 1879. In 1889 he occupied the See also:Zhob valley, a strategic See also:advantage which opened the See also:Gomal Pass through the Waziri See also:country to See also:caravan See also:traffic. Sandeman's system was not so well suited to the See also:Pathan as to his Baluch See also:neighbour.

But in Baluchistan he was a See also:

pioneer, a pacificator and a successful administrator, who converted that country from a See also:state of See also:complete anarchy into a See also:province as orderly as any in British See also:India. He died at See also:Bela, the See also:capital of See also:Las Bela state, on the 29th of See also:January 1892, and there he lies buried under a handsome See also:tomb. See T. H. See also:Thornton, Sir Robert Sandeman (1895); and R. I. See also:Bruce, The Forward Policy (1900).

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