Jamrud Fort: Sikh Heritage Tourism
Jamrud Fort (Fatehgarh) is constructed on a mound located at the mouth of the Khyber Pass (Historic route between Afghanistan and the subcontinent. One end of the pass faces Peshawar, and the other opens into Afghanistan. The pass itself is a long winding route through mountains and is 33 miles long) It is a natural strategic location and we can assume why General Hari Singh Nalwa chose this spot for his fort: 1. It is a good observation point for many miles due to its height 2. Its north eastern side is mountainous, hence impassable for armies 3. On its western side is a river (Rud) - another natural barrier. During monsoon rain (Jam) it fills up as a torrent, hence the name Jamrud. 4. It is located on the main route to Afghanistan so every type of traffic can be observed for miles.
Khyber Pass is an ancient pass and its romance and history is timeless. It is possible the fort was built on the ruins of a much older structure -Buddhist-era temple ruin or older fort perhaps. The Sikhs used mud brick which was the hallmark of their construction, strengthened with stone. There are three layers of defence and the fort looks like a ship anchored in sand from a distance. There is a mud outer wall, inside is a moat-like space. An entranceway leads inside the inner wall. Yet another stairway leads to the innermost and top most core which also has the famous Hari Singh room where his body was kept in the final hours when he was mortally wounded in 1837.
The fort has been remarkably maintained and preserved by the military considering it is now more than 180 years old. The British added brickwork and built additional barracks and regimental office/ mess etc. It has an open air raquets court. Some of the rocks/ stones used in construction at the base are kanjoor stones (same material used in Buddhist Gandhara monasteries/ stupas) So it is possible material from the original much older structure may have been used in its construction. Not far from here is a gigantic stupa, the 1st-2nd Century Ishpola Stupa. Ali Masjid nearby too has remains of ancient Buddhist stupas on hilltops.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or “KP” (formerly North West Frontier) has a rich Sikh military history. It is dotted with a number of Sikh-era forts that are fascinating from Sikh heritage perspective. Besides Fatehgarh (Jamrud), other Sikh-era forts are Balahisar (Sameergarh), Shabqadar (Shankargarh), Bara Fort (Kishangarh), Mackeson, Michni etc etc. Hazara and Haripur part of KP is yet another area steeped in Sikh history. - ALI JAN
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Native name ਹਰੀ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਲੂਆ
Nickname(s)
Baagh Maar[1]
(Tiger-Killer)
Born 1791
Gujranwala, Sikh Confederacy
Died 1837 (aged 45–46)
Jamrud, Sikh Empire
Allegiance Sikh Empire flag.jpg Sikh Empire
Service/branch Sikh Khalsa Army
Years of service 1804–1837
Rank
General (Jarnail) of the Sikh Khalsa Army
Commander-in-chief along the Afghan Frontier (1825–1837)
Commands held
Governor (Diwan) of Kashmir (1820–1)[2][2]
Governor (Diwan) of Hazara (1822–1837)[2]
Governor (Diwan) of Peshawar (1834-5, 1836–7)[2]
Battles/wars Battle of Kasur (1807), Battle of Attock (1813), Battle of Multan (1818), Battle of Shopian (1819), Battle of Mangal (1821), Battle of Mankera (1821), Battle of Nowshera (1823), Battle of Sirikot (1824), Battle of Saidu (1827), Battle of Peshawar (1834) Battle of Jamrud (1837)
Awards Izazi-i-Sardari
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Gurdial Singh (father)
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Hari Singh Nalwa (Nalua) (1791–1837) was Commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Sikh Empire. He is known for his role in the conquests of Kasur, Sialkot, Attock, Multan, Kashmir, Peshawar and Jamrud. He is also the founder of Haripur city in Pakistan, which is named after him.
Hari Singh Nalwa was responsible for expanding the frontier of Sikh Empire to beyond the Indus River right up to the mouth of the Khyber Pass. In 1831, he opposed moves by Maharaja Ranjit Singh to appoint Kharak Singh as his successor as Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.[citation needed] At the time of his death, the western boundary of the empire was Jamrud.
He served as governor of Kashmir, Peshawar and Hazara. He established a mint on behalf of the Sikh Empire to facilitate revenue collection in Kashmir and Peshawar.[3]
Hari Singh Nalwa was born in Gujranwala, in the Majha region of Punjab to a uppal khatri family his parents were Sardar Gurdial Singh Uppal and Dharam Kaur.[4] After his father died in 1798, he was raised by his mother. In 1801, at the age of ten, he took Amrit Sanchar and was baptised as a Sikh. At the age of twelve, he began to manage his father's estate and took up horse riding.[5]
In 1804, at the age of fourteen, his mother sent him to the court of Ranjit Singh to resolve a property dispute. Ranjit Singh decided the arbitration in his favour because of his background and aptitude. Hari Singh had explained that his father and grandfather had served under Maha Singh and Charat Singh, the Maharaja's ancestors, and demonstrated his skills as horseman and musketeer.[5] Ranjit Singh gave him a position at the court as a personal attendant.[6]
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The Khyber Pass is a mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan, cutting through the northeastern part of the Spin Ghar mountains. An integral part of the ancient Silk Road, it has long had substantial cultural, economic, and geopolitical significance. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent and a strategic military location. The summit of the pass is 5 km inside Pakistan at Landi Kotal. The Khyber Pass is part of the Asian Highway.
Well known invasions of the area have been predominantly through the Khyber Pass, such as the invasions by Darius I, Genghis Khan and later Mongols such as Duwa, Qutlugh Khwaja and Kebek. Prior to the Kushan era, the Khyber Pass was not a widely used trade route.Among the Muslim invasions of ancient India, the famous invaders coming through the Khyber Pass are Mahmud Ghaznavi, and the Afghan Muhammad Ghori and the Turkic-Mongols.
Finally, Sikhs under Ranjit Singh captured the Khyber Pass in 1834 until they were defeated by the forces of Wazir Akbar Khan in 1837. Hari Singh Nalwa, who manned the Khyber Pass for years, became a household name in Afghanistan.
During the war in Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass has been a major route for resupplying military armament and food to the NATO forces in the Afghan theater of conflict since the US started the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Almost 80 percent of the NATO and US supplies that are brought in by road were transported through this Khyber Pass. Furthermore, it has also been used to transport civilians from the Afghan side to the Pakistani one. Until the end of 2007, this route had been relatively safe since the tribes living there (mainly Afridi, a Pashtun tribe) were paid by the Pakistani government to keep the area safe. However, since that year, the Taliban began to control the region, and so there started to exist wider tensions in their political relationship.
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The Khyber Pass (Pashto: د خیبر درہ, Urdu: درۂ خیبر) is a mountain pass in the northwest of Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan. It connects the town of Landi Kotal to the Valley of Peshawar at Jamrud by traversing part of the Spin Ghar mountains. An integral part of the ancient Silk Road[citation needed], it has long had substantial cultural, economic, and geopolitical significance for Eurasian trade. Throughout history, it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a vital strategic military choke pointfor various states that came to control it.
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Historically, no Pass can claim such importance as the Khyber. It's still the gateway to the sub-continent, whether you travel the modern or the ancient way. Alexander the Great's army marched this way, over 2,000 years ago; and through succeeding centuries, this bleak, forbidding country has been a route of invasion, a frontier to defend. In modern times, Britain has played her part in defence of the North West Frontier, and here are regimental records to recall the story. ® When Her Majesty the Queen arrives, paying her first visit to the Khyber, over 60 tribal Maliks were present to greet her. The Warsak Dam project, built on the Kabul river, was next on the programme. Our last pictures show the Queen in Peshawar, one of the principal places visited by her during this phase of the tour.
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It took eight years to built the fort, it was captured by Mughal emperor Humayun in 1555. Nadir Shah, the Turkic ruler of Persia, Afghan ruler Ahmed Shah Abdali and the Maratha army also camped here during their respective campaigns in the Punjab region. Rohtas was also occasionally used for administrative purposes by the Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh after he captured it in 1825.
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The Khyber Pass (also called the Khaiber Pass or Khaybar Pass) (Urdu: درہ خیبر) is the most important pass connecting Pakistan with Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location. The actual pass summit is 5 km inside Pakistan at Landi Kotal. The pass cuts through the Safed Koh mountains which are a far southeastern extension of the Hindu Kush range.
Going northwest from the eastern end in Pakistan, the pass starts from near Jamrud (15 km west of Peshawar) and ends west of Torkham, Afghanistan, a winding road of 48 km. The route passes Fort Maude and Ali Masjid to reach the narrowest point of the pass, just 15 m wide. The summit is at Landi Kotal, followed by a steep decline to Michni Kandao, Landi Khana and the Afghan border just east of Torkham. Here the gradient becomes easier as the pass exits at Haft Chah onto the Dakka plain. From Dakka, the Kabul River flows back to Peshawar through the Loe Shilman Gorge, a less direct and more difficult route, but the one chosen by Alexander the Great when he crossed over into South Asia in 326 BC in an attempt to invade the Indus Valley.
Jamrud is at an elevation of 491 m (1610 feet), while the summit at Landi Kotal is 1070 m (3509 feet). The current road was built by the British through the Pass in 1879 and a railway in the 1920s (the previous railhead was at Jamrud).
In some versions of the Aryan migration theory, the Indo-Aryans migrated to India via the Khyber Pass. Recorded invasions through the Khyber Pass date from the time of Alexander the Great, with several Muslim invasions of South Asia, culminating with the establishment of the Mughul Empire from 1526. Going the other way, the British invaded Afghanistan through the Pass and fought three Afghan Wars in 1839-42, 1878-80, and 1919.
To the north of the Khyber Pass lies the country of the Mullagori Afridis. To the south is Afridi Tirah, while the inhabitants of villages in the Pass itself are Afridi clansmen. Throughout the centuries the Pashtun clans, particularly the Afridis and the Afghan Shinwaris, have regarded the Pass as their own preserve and have levied a toll on travellers for safe conduct. Since this form of extortion has always been their main source of income, they are naturally disturbed when anyone comes along to interfere with it. Hence their dislike of invading armies and penetrations, and other exercises of authority, even though some armies have been prepared to pay the blackmail, in the form of allowances. Resistance from the local tribesmen has always been fierce.
George Molesworth, a member of the British force of 1919, summarised it well. Every stone in the Khaibar has been soaked in blood.
The area of the Khyber Pass has been connected with a counterfeit arms industry, making AK-47's and Martini-Henry rifles, among others, using local steel and blacksmiths' forges.
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Khyber Agency is one of the seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which is administered by the federation of Pakistan since 1947. The rugged mountains and lush green vales of this territory is a home to two big Pakhtun Tribes the “Afridis” and the “Shinwaris”. Khyber witnessed the arrival of the Aryans, Iranians, Greeks, Kushans,White Huns, to the plains of subcontinent and to the terrains of Afghanistan. It was this path which gave passage to the caravans of the Ghaznavide, Ghoraide and later on the Mughals. Khyber Agency is named after the famous Khyber Pass, the most important link between South Asia and Afghanistan. Khyber Agency is the oldest tribal agency, created in 1879 with PLN Cavagnari as the first Political Officer in a de Jure sense, but factually in 1901, with the establishment of the North West Frontier Province, the post of Political Officer changed into Political Agent with Major G. Kepper as the first Political Agent. Like rest of the FATA regulations Khyber Agency is governed under Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR), which were introduced by British Viceroy Lord Curzon in 1901. Political Agent plays vital role in the Agency. All the administrative activities remain under the executive control of the President of Pakistan and the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the representative of the President for these areas. Introduction The major tribe of the Agency, is further divided into eight clans; these are Kuki Khel, Malik Din Khels, Qambar Khel, Kamar Khel, Zakha Khels, Sipah, Aka Khels and Adam Khel. The first six are collectively known as the Khyber Afridis. Khyber Agency is named after the famous Khyber Pass, the most important link between South Asia and Central Asia via Afghanistan. According to one version the word Khyber is derived from a Hebrew word, which means place or castle. Before the birth of Islam Jews had stronghold over the Khyber fort and its surroundings, situated some 150 km in the North-Western part of present day Saudi Arabia. However, the Khyber Pass has no connection with the Khyber Fort of Medina. Khyber is a small village in Landi Kotal situated on Peshawar—Torkham highway which earned this name for it. Historians and locals contend that Khyber Pass is the main reason behind the name of Khyber Agency.The geo-strategic position of this Pass has given worldwide recognition to its inhabitants and Agency and got the attention of historians as well. This pass has witnessed the invasion of many formidable armies. Aryans were the first who made their way from Central Asia through Khyber Pass into the Indo-Pak Sub- continent around 2500-1500-BC.Next came the Persians, followed b y Alexander the great in 327 BC. The Kushans came in the first century AD and made Peshawar their capital followed by the Sassanids in the 3rd century AD. The Muslims from Ghazna crossed this pass in 997 AD under the leadership of Subuktageen and was followed by his son Mahmud,the Ghorides, the Tatars and the Mughals. Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia captured Peshawar after crossing Khyber Pass and proceeded to Delhi in 1739. Ahmad Shah Abdali, the founder of modern Afghanistan, also made his way through Khyber Pass for his Indian invasion. The English annexed Peshawar in 1849 and advanced towards the west. The British established outposts in the border areas. The Khyber Agency witnessed fierce fighting during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). After the war, the British occupied the whole pass and established a piquet system over this pass to safeguard passage through it. During the tribal uprising in 1897-98, the Afridis generally rose against the British and seized the Pass. The British Indian government sent expedition to Tirah to control the situation. The skirmishes continued for two years and ultimately an agreement was signed between the British and Afridis, and it was decided to keep the Khyber Pass open for trade.Khyber Rifles, a brigade of informal army was formed to keep the Khyber Pass secure. This semi-formal force was formed called Khasadars, and recruited from the local tribes. They were asked to carry their own rifles called Jezail.The Khyber Pass did not witness peace for too long. According to the British, they faced tough resistance in this area up to the last day of their rule in Indo-Pak Sub-continent. On 14th April, 1948, Quaid-i-Azam visited Khyber for the first time. As a Governor General of Pakistan, Mr. Jinnah ordered withdrawal of all forces from the tribal areas according to a previous promise he made to show respect for tribal spirit of freedom as they called themselves 'Azad Qabail' meant for-'free tribes'.