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TOCHI VALLEY, or DAWAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1043 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOCHI VALLEY, or DAWAR , one of the See also:

chief routes into See also:Afghanistan in the See also:North-See also:West Frontier See also:Province of See also:India. It leads from the See also:Bannu through tribal See also:country, and is inhabited by the See also:Dawari (q.v.). The valley is divided into two parts, known as Upper and See also:Lower Dawar, by a narrow pass called the Taghrai Tangi, some three m. See also:long. Between Dawar and See also:British territory is the See also:low range of uninhabited hills, which skirt the Bannu See also:district. It was by this route that Mahmud of See also:Ghazni effected several of his raids into India and the remains of a road flanking the valley and of defensive positions are still to be traced. After the See also:Waziristan Expedition of 1894 the Tochi was garrisoned by British troops; but when See also:Lord Curzon reorganized the frontier in 1901, the British troops were withdrawn, and their See also:place supplied by tribal See also:militia. The chief posts are Saidgi, Idak, Miranshah, Datta Khel and Sheranni. The valley was the See also:scene of See also:action for the Tochi or Dawari Expedition under Brigadier-See also:General Keyes in 1872, and the Tochi Expedition under General See also:Corrie See also:Bird in 1897.

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