Hyder Shah
Hyder Shah was a member of the British Indian Army who in 1870 traveled as a secret agent through the princely states of Swat and Dir and Badakhshan.
1870 expedition
Hyder Shah was a
Kokand. On 12 August 1870 Hyder Shah and several assistants left Peshawar. They passed through Swat, Dir and Chitral and passed into Badakhshan. But at Faizabad they learned poor weather would not permit passage over the Oxus and therefore the plans to travel to Bukhara and Kokand were scuttled. Hyder Shah and his party retraced their route and on 13 December 1870 they returned to Peshawar.[1]
In 1872 Montgomerie published an account of Hyder Shah's travels in the
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.[2]
References
- ^ Derek J. Waller. The Pundits : British exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.pp. 84-94
- Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. vol. 42, 1872, pp. 180–201