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The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Robert Warburton was an unusual figure in the British administration of India and Afghanistan during the second half of the 19th century. He was half Afghan, his father being Lt. Col. Robert Warburton of the Royal Artillery and his mother Shah Jahan Begum, niece of Dost Mohammad Khan , Emir of Afghanistan. Interracial marriages were frowned upon by the "establishment" of the British Raj, so Warburton's record of success as Political Officer in charge of the Khyber Pass region was most unusual (although it
For this morning's Snippet, I've chosen several excerpts dealing with crime and punishment in the Punjab in the early 1870's.
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