Indias Scientific Frontier Where Is It What Is It PDF Download

Excerpt from India's Scientific Frontier: Where Is It? What Is It? Of men from Kandahar to Multan, to one fourth that number. But how was this reduction accomplished? Why, by taking as the basis of comparison, not the facts of Sir John Keene's march from Sukkar to Kandahar, but those of Sir Frederick Roberts' march from Kabul to Kan dahar. Now the latter march was made under conditions exceptionally favourable, even as te gards that particular route, and such as never have or ever can occur in the Bolan road. The column, consisting of men of all ranks, had with it no wheeled carriage, only mountain guns no pontoon train, no sappers, and only a small reserve of engin eers' equipments, and hardly any quarter-master's stores, these latter being forwarded from Sibi tothe troops at Kandahar. Moving at the best season of the year through a country whose military strength had been completely broken by Sir Donald Stewart - that country the granary of Afghanistan - it not only suffered no delays from vicissitudes of climate or the attacks of the inhabi tants, but was able to depend entirely upon the fields of half-ripened corn which bordered the road for fodder for the cavalry horses and trans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.