Agents of the British Empire in Pukhtunkhwa

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Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum (1863–3 December 1937)


hailing from Topi, Swabi District, British India, was a distinguished educationist and politician from a notable family. He is perhaps best known for establishing Islamia College, Peshawar, the first education institution in PeshawarPakistan, on the mould of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's policy of educating Muslims.
Sahibzada Sahib started his career as a civil servant but he eventually turned into a great educationist and respected politician.


In 1887, Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum was appointed Naib Tehsildar and subsequently held several administrative portfolios i.e. Tehsildar, Chief Political Agent of Hazara, Revenue Assistant and Treasury Officer, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Superintendent of the Commissioner's Vernacular Office, Assistant Political Agent Khyber, 'Assistant Political Agent' of Chitral, and then of Khyber Agency and then promoted to Assistant Political AgentKhyber, FATA, during the period from 1891 to 1919. The Political Agents were Sir Robert Warburton until 1897, and subsequently Sir George Roos-Keppel, until 1908. of
In the year 1893 during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary the Durand line between Afghanistan and the British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the Agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost Afghanistan.
From The British Side the camp was Attended by Sir Henry Mortimer DurandPolitical Agent Khyber. and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Assistant
The Afghanistan was represented by Sahibzada Abdul Latif and the Governor Sardar Shireendil Khan representing the King Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum became the first Chief Minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in 1937. But after a few months Dr. Khan Sahib of the Congress Party became the first Chief Minister after Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum lost a vote of no confidence. He was however instrumental in the formation of the Frontier branch of the Muslim League.


His Master

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Olaf Roos-Keppel, GCIE, KCSI (7 September 1866 - 11 December 1921) was a British military officer who served in the capacities of Political Agent to the Governor-General in Kurram and Khyber, and later as Chief Commissioner, North West Frontier Province from 1908 till 1919. He is also known for his role in 3rd Afghan War . He was commissioned in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the 1880s and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1892 and to Captain in 1895. In 1900 he was appointed a CIE and was promoted to Brevet Major in 1902, receiving further promotions to Major in 1904 and to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in 1907. In 1908, he was knighted with the KCIE and was promoted to full Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912.
In 1913, Roos-Keppel, along with Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum established Islamia College (Peshawar), which was inaugurated by Haji Sahib Turangzai. Roos-Keppel was also president of Central Committee of Examiners in Pashto. He is credited with foreseeing the genius in the young Cambridge graduate Inayatullah Khan by appointing him, at the age of 24, the Vice Principal of Islamia College (Peshawar) in 1913, and then the Principal in 1917. He was appointed a KCSI in 1915 and a GCIE in 1917. He formally retired from the Indian Army in 1920 and died on 11 December of the following year, aged 55.
Academic contributions?

Roos-Keppel was well versed in the Pashto language:

• In 1901, he produced his own editions from T. B. Hughes' English translations of Ganj-e-Pashto and Tarikh-e-Sultan Mahmud-e-Ghaznavi. These editions replaced the older versions as textbooks for Military officers.
• He also authored 'The Pashto Manual' as a guide book on colloquial Pashto in 1901, followed by a second impression in 1907 while serving as Captain in the Khyber

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He was muslim league graana, did you expect anything else?

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

yea he did a lot for educating his people. The foundation of Islamia college peshawar in this regard is his greatest achievement. He tried his best to convince the britishers to do reforms in pukhtunkhwa and to a great extent he was successful in this..

[graveyardofempires]

that doesnt change the fact that he was in the pocket of British against Afghanistan.

[Baygham]

that doesnt change the fact that he was in the pocket of British against Afghanistan.

Sahabzada's contriution to pashtoon education cannot be denied. From the first school in swabi, to the islamia college for which he fought and campained hard, his contributions will always be remembered. Interestingly, he did not leave a fortune to be plundered and wasted. He had no children and donated most of his assets to the islamia college foundation which to this day has prime real estate in and around peshawar. Name me one pashtoon in afghanistan or pakistan who has done that for pashtoons.

Someone I know, told me a story about how his father went to meet him and told him that his son wants to study science but the swabi school has no science teacher. The next week, a truck full of laboratory equipment drove in town with a teacher from india in the front seat. The first science teacher in swabi. This person from maneri, was the first science student that graduated from swabi school, later to become a doctor (only two seats for medical students from NWFP) in the 1930's.

As far the him siding with the british, well with no army or cohesive force, he converted adversity into opportunity by promoting education. This 'siding' with the british is in the context of the time. The pashtoons had been very suspicious of kabul for a long time. To them the looters whether sikhs or the plunderers in kabul were about the same. If they looted together it was OK (like with abdali) but when they themselves were looted it was not ok. It is in this backround that pashtoon (in present day khyber pakhtunkhwa) operated in the late 19th and early 20th century.

http://www.khyber.org/pashtotribes/y/yusufzai-e.shtml
In 1835, Dost Muhammad Khan came down from Kabul to fight the Sikhs. His troops however retreated without meeting the enemy, but not before they had plundered the whole country as far as the Indus. A couple of years later the Kabul leader came down to face the Sikhs. He was more successful than his previous expeditions, and after a confrontation managed to kill the Sikh general , Hari Singh at jamrudzai. He then proceeded to squeeze from the unfortunate peasants what little the Sikhs had failed to extract. He and his Durranis departed laden with the curses of the people, who declare them to have been greater tyrants than the Sikhs.

[graveyardofempires]

Sahabzada's contriution to pashtoon education cannot be denied. From the first school in swabi, to the islamia college for which he fought and campained hard, his contributions will always be remembered. Interestingly, he did not leave a fortune to be plundered and wasted. He had no children and donated most of his assets to the islamia college foundation which to this day has prime real estate in and around peshawar. Name me one pashtoon in afghanistan or pakistan who has done that for pashtoons.

Someone I know, told me a story about how his father went to meet him and told him that his son wants to study science but the swabi school has no science teacher. The next week, a truck full of laboratory equipment drove in town with a teacher from india in the front seat. The first science teacher in swabi. This person from maneri, was the first science student that graduated from swabi school, later to become a doctor (only two seats for medical students from NWFP) in the 1930's.

As far the him siding with the british, well with no army or cohesive force, he converted adversity into opportunity by promoting education. This 'siding' with the british is in the context of the time. The pashtoons had been very suspicious of kabul for a long time. To them the looters whether sikhs or the plunderers in kabul were about the same. If they looted together it was OK (like with abdali) but when they themselves were looted it was not ok. It is in this backround that pashtoon (in present day khyber pakhtunkhwa) operated in the late 19th and early 20th century.

its hard to name a "pashtun" who was so fund of the british,how many pashtuns did he kill for british?

you mean the dogs of british cuz those people cant be pashtuns.
Pashtuns=fiercely independent
so british was not the plunderers? i guess british agents still exist in the form of people such as you.
Abdali is your father!

[Alchemist]

an early courtesan of the british courts...little thanks do they give to his british master who actually came up with the idea after shutting down so many schools founded by the likes of Turangzai... Turangzai himself had opened 70 schools in the region but to "lay the foundation" for this one he had to hide his face from the british who were present there and sneak in and out like a thief...that speaks volumes about his hosts. But you won't hear of Turangzai because he never wore a tie or smooched with the british to get to the riches and prestigious positions bestowed by the british. They shut down his schools and arrested his teachers because they were "anti british"...so they opened one that was pro british.
Like sheep they give thanks to the butchers for the grass that fattens them. In name it's called Islamia, but it had very little to do with Islam and mostly served as a hub for British spies and for cultural enslavement of the locals.

[ComradePashtun]

Graveyard,
andiwala da de khalko saroona teet dee. Anything is better than nothing for slaves. Oss sam dasti da panjabianoo ghool hum khori. As they say 'be adabi de muaaf we'! Inferior dee. Examples on display. Once born a slave and with mentality as such, it can never be changed. It's very much is a rational part of them. Sad, very sad. Makes me disguted with myself.

[Baygham]

an early courtesan of the british courts...little thanks do they give to his british master who actually came up with the idea after shutting down so many schools founded by the likes of Turangzai... Turangzai himself had opened 70 schools in the region but to "lay the foundation" for this one he had to hide his face from the british who were present there and sneak in and out like a thief...that speaks volumes about his hosts. But you won't hear of Turangzai because he never wore a tie or smooched with the british to get to the riches and prestigious positions bestowed by the british. They shut down his schools and arrested his teachers because they were "anti british"...so they opened one that was pro british.
Like sheep they give thanks to the butchers for the grass that fattens them. In name it's called Islamia, but it had very little to do with Islam and mostly served as a hub for British spies and for cultural enslavement of the locals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Sahib_of_Turangzai

In 1913, Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan chose Haji Sahib of Turangzai to inaugurate the foundation laying ceremony of the Darul Uloom Islamia in Peshawar, present day Islamia College.

[Alchemist]

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an early courtesan of the british courts...little thanks do they give to his british master who actually came up with the idea after shutting down so many schools founded by the likes of Turangzai... Turangzai himself had opened 70 schools in the region but to "lay the foundation" for this one he had to hide his face from the british who were present there and sneak in and out like a thief...that speaks volumes about his hosts. But you won't hear of Turangzai because he never wore a tie or smooched with the british to get to the riches and prestigious positions bestowed by the british. They shut down his schools and arrested his teachers because they were "anti british"...so they opened one that was pro british.
Like sheep they give thanks to the butchers for the grass that fattens them. In name it's called Islamia, but it had very little to do with Islam and mostly served as a hub for British spies and for cultural enslavement of the locals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Sahib_of_Turangzai

[In 1913, Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan chose Haji Sahib of Turangzai to inaugurate the foundation laying ceremony of the Darul Uloom Islamia in Peshawar, present day Islamia College. /QUOTE]

you just proved that you are a jack ass. You just read the first line and thought to your self "HAA! HE IS WRONG! I GOT TO SHOW IT TO HIM" ... and then quote me wiki on what I had elaborated on only 1 line after.... haste makes waste....remember that kiddo!

[Baygham]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Sahib_of_Turangzai





you just proved that you are a jack ass. You just read the first line and thought to your self "HAA! HE IS WRONG! I GOT TO SHOW IT TO HIM" ... and then quote me wiki on what I had elaborated on only 1 line after.... haste makes waste....remember that kiddo!

I and thousands more pashtoons are very grateful to sahibzada for getting western education to pakhtunkhwa, many in my family went to islamia college and many more will.

I am also grateful that they did not go to any of the 70 deobandi madrassas opened by turangzai(a graduate of deoband). Calling a madrassa a school does not make it a school. In islamia college, chemistry, physics etc were all taught way back in 1915. Hence the close to 100 year difference in your degenerate madrassa thinking and that of others in pakhtunkhwa.

[Alchemist]

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I and thousands more pashtoons are very grateful to sahibzada for getting western education to pakhtunkhwa, many in my family went to islamia college and many more will.

I am also grateful that they did not go to any of the 70 deobandi madrassas opened by turangzai(a graduate of deoband). Calling a madrassa a school does not make it a school. In islamia college, chemistry, physics etc were all taught way back in 1915. Hence the close to 100 year difference in your degenerate madrassa thinking and that of others in pakhtunkhwa.

Chemisty, physics etc was also taught at the university of Tokyo around the same time and look how far they have come along. This is because the founder of the University was a real scholar and a true seeker of knowledge. He imbued his own students with that same zeal for grasping knowledge which is why that university has come so much more far ahead and accomplished much more. The founders of the "Islamia" College were more concerned with how the students brushed their teeth in a civilized manner which is why it's end product is the likes of you. At one point the College was run by Alexander Wilson...an MI6 agent. Obviously you prefer to get westernized than to get "islamized" ...and just remember that the real founder of the college was actually a british! Or do you really think that even in those times it took only Rs 3000 + 1000 trees to build a college? Can you do the math? Government College Lahore didn't have pashtuns donating land and money and blessings to it, but it produced Physics and Physiology Nobel Prize winners Abdus Salam, Har Gobind Khorana, also Alama Iqbal, and notables like Rashid Ahmad, Dr. Israr Ahmad ...and Islamia College has produced "degenerate" thinkers such as your self who can't even read properly but are just content with their "western education"...
The British had really smart soldiers who were quick to study the people they were set out to conquer and "civilize". Sir George Roos-Keppel spoke pashtu fluently ..probably better than you, and in his inaugural speech he specifically said that the College was his idea ..and his goal and vision was to civilize your people...congratulations.

[Baygham]

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Chemisty, physics etc was also taught at the university of Tokyo around the same time and look how far they have come along. This is because the founder of the University was a real scholar and a true seeker of knowledge. He imbued his own students with that same zeal for grasping knowledge which is why that university has come so much more far ahead and accomplished much more. The founders of the "Islamia" College were more concerned with how the students brushed their teeth in a civilized manner which is why it's end product is the likes of you. At one point the College was run by Alexander Wilson...an MI6 agent. Obviously you prefer to get westernized than to get "islamized" ...and just remember that the real founder of the college was actually a british! Or do you really think that even in those times it took only Rs 3000 + 1000 trees to build a college? Can you do the math? Government College Lahore didn't have pashtuns donating land and money and blessings to it, but it produced Physics and Physiology Nobel Prize winners Abdus Salam, Har Gobind Khorana, also Alama Iqbal, and notables like Rashid Ahmad, Dr. Israr Ahmad ...and Islamia College has produced "degenerate" thinkers such as your self who can't even read properly but are just content with their "western education"...
The British had really smart soldiers who were quick to study the people they were set out to conquer and "civilize". Sir George Roos-Keppel spoke pashtu fluently ..probably better than you, and in his inaugural speech he specifically said that the College was his idea ..and his goal and vision was to civilize your people...congratulations.

To call this a british intelligence operation is ludicrous and a slap in the face of all those named below. Not every one was a deobandi slave in those days. Many reformers existed though out the indian subcontinent. Unfortunately afghanistan seem to have kept its primitive ways and skipped most of sciences until much later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamia...%28Peshawar%29

Consequently, on April 12, 1911, Nawab Sahib arranged a meeting of like minded people in Peshawar at the residence of Abdul Karim, contractor at Peshawar city, which was attended by Arbab Ghulam Haider Khan of Tehkal, Habibullah Khan, Khushal Khan, Sethi Karim Bakhsh, Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum and others. Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum moved the motion for collection of contributions, which was instantly responded to by cash donations by all present. In addition to his instant cash donation, the Nawab of Dir promised further cash besides four hundred trees. The Nawab of Amb, Nawab Muhammad Khan Zaman Khan also made huge cash contributions of Rs. 1,00,000-00 on request of Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah to the cause. Subscriptions were also given by the Afridi Chiefs and leading religious elders. An example was set by Bibigul, widow of Khairullah Khan of Prang, who gave her ornaments on Jun 6, 1911 as her subscription towards the college fund. Subsequently, a large plot of land was purchased for the college building from the Khalils(Arbabs) of Tehkal. Rs. 1,50,000/- from Nizam of Hyderabad was sent by Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah to Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum as donation for the college.
Haji Sahib of Turangzai, the most famous Pukhtun religious leader of the time was requested by Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum to lay the foundation stone of Islamia College. Haji Sahib agreed to the request, however, he had been declared a proclaimed offender by the British for his anti-British activities and his entry was banned into British controlled territory. He was residing in tribal territory, which was outside British control, so Nawab Sahib prevailed upon Sir George Roos-Keppel and the British to permit Haji Sahib to enter British controlled territory for one day so he could lay the foundation stone of Islamia College. The British agreed to this request with the understanding that Haji Sahib would return to tribal territory once he had laid the foundation stone. Haji Sahib was permitted to enter British controlled territory for the ceremony and spent the night in the 'Pokh' Mosque of Tehkal. At the foundation stone laying ceremony, Sir Roos Keppel and other British officials were present, so Haji Sahib hid his face in his sheet (Chadar) from them and was led by Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim to the place where he was to lay the foundation stone. After laying the stone Haji Sahib went to Tehkal and then returned to the tribal territory.

roose kappel like olaf caroe were good friends of the pashtoons, I forgot the name of the chemistry teacher (an intelligence man himself) was another character in islamia college, they served the raj but with good pashtoon intentions. Being a kafir englishmen did not mean that every british was out to kill and maim the pashtoons, there were a lot of good men following rotten colonial idealogy but did their bid.
80% of our family lands were confiscated by the british, but I am still grateful for the western education I got. I will not give it up for half the kingdom of kabul.
by demonizing the education of science and technology as a kafir indoctrination, you guys want to keep us chained and perpetually enslaved as blood shedding savages for your arabian honor. No thankyou. I would cherish every opportunity from whoever and wherever to further my education and worldly knowledge to enhance my survival on this earth.

[Alchemist]

To call this a british intelligence operation is ludicrous and a slap in the face of all those named below. Not every one was a deobandi slave in those days. Many reformers existed though out the indian subcontinent. Unfortunately afghanistan seem to have kept its primitive ways and skipped most of sciences until much later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamia...%28Peshawar%29
roose kappel like olaf caroe were good friends of the pashtoons, I forgot the name of the chemistry teacher (an intelligence man himself) was another character in islamia college, they served the raj but with good pashtoon intentions. Being a kafir englishmen did not mean that every british was out to kill and maim the pashtoons, there were a lot of good men following rotten colonial idealogy but did their bid.
80% of our family lands were confiscated by the british, but I am still grateful for the western education I got. I will not give it up for half the kingdom of kabul.
by demonizing the education of science and technology as a kafir indoctrination, you guys want to keep us chained and perpetually enslaved as blood shedding savages for your arabian honor. No thankyou. I would cherish every opportunity from whoever and wherever to further my education and worldly knowledge to enhance my survival on this earth.

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What we have here is a case of sour grapes.

You just thanked the british for confiscating your lands and giving you "education" aka brainwashing. What else would you call it if not brainwashing since you seem to think that the British Raj has somehow benefited you. When in fact 400 years ago subcontinent India produced a quarter of the world's total goods and made 25% of the total income of the world....but 150 years under the British raj and their income is reduced to 2.5% of the world total. Nevermind that the britsh east company build railways and infrastructer in a way that suited their purposes for the exploitation of the resources of India; one of the reasons why India has been set further back with the great gap between its rich and its poor. But at the very least, you ought to have been educated enough to know of the millions, including your own kin, who were oppressed, tortured, humiliated and murdered by the british....I spit on your education boy. Education is suppose to broaden your mind and allow you to harbour doubts...but when it comes to the anglos you are totally narrow minded and have absolute faith in their every intention and action. How much more deluded can you get?

And you are posting me quotes as if you think you are impressing me with something I don't know already. You maybe impressed by your quote minning but I am not son. Here it is:

Roos-Keppel was well versed in Pashto and his command over colloquial can be judged from an inaugural speech he gave in Islamia College Peshawar in 1913-14. A strongly built man of mixed Dutch-Swedish-English blood, he bore a thick Edwardian moustache. When Roos-Keppel came to address, he mesmerized the entire gathering by the rendering of his speech in perfect Pashto. (To give the reader an idea I must present a snippet exactly as narrated by Late Dr. M. Zarif of Nishtarabad - writer's maternal grandfather who was present in the audience):

After the initial salutations and thanks in Pashto, he began:

"Yo wraz pah day lar teradum no zra kay may soach ooko, yarra Roos-Keppela dasay ba kha na-ee chih dalta keh yo taleemi idara jor kray shi?"

(One day while I was walking past this place, I thought to myself: my good fellow Roos-Keppel, wouldn't it be splendid to build an educational institute over this site?)

A hushed silence held the audience which was only broken when Roos-Keppel finished his speech. The echoes of 'Roos-Keppel Zindabad' followed a loud round of applause from the gathering as he received a standing ovation.

stop embarrasing your self and your clan.

[Toramana]

What we have here is a case of sour grapes.

You just thanked the british for confiscating your lands and giving you "education" aka brainwashing. What else would you call it if not brainwashing since you seem to think that the British Raj has somehow benefited you. When in fact 400 years ago subcontinent India produced a quarter of the world's total goods and made 25% of the total income of the world....but 150 years under the British raj and their income is reduced to 2.5% of the world total. Nevermind that the britsh east company build railways and infrastructer in a way that suited their purposes for the exploitation of the resources of India; one of the reasons why India has been set further back with the great gap between its rich and its poor. But at the very least, you ought to have been educated enough to know of the millions, including your own kin, who were oppressed, tortured, humiliated and murdered by the british....I spit on your education boy. Education is suppose to broaden your mind and allow you to harbour doubts...but when it comes to the anglos you are totally narrow minded and have absolute faith in their every intention and action. How much more deluded can you get?

And you are posting me quotes as if you think you are impressing me with something I don't know already. You maybe impressed by your quote minning but I am not son. Here it is:

stop embarrasing your self and your clan.[/QUOTE]

Four hundred years back, nothing grew in the Arabian desert....Poverty was rampant ...Many old men have told me that Arabs till the mid of 20th Century would come to Pukhtunkhwa to collect alms ....And during draught when a Bediunes/Arabs wouldn't find any thing to drink, he would insert a stick in the mounth of a camel and when it would vomit, he would drink the liquid...

Now Arabs have big petro-tummies thanks the modern technology and big economies compared to their destitute lives then...

It isn't so simple comparing economies this way....