"A good Indian – dead"

Photo of a dead Pashtun, NWFP, 1935.

 Colonel Bunn of the British Army who was travelling through NWFP and took the photo, has captioned it as "A good Indian – dead" (i.e. "The only good Indian is a dead Indian").

British invasion of the Mohmand territory in 1935 (historical images)

A large British military encampment at Ghalanai in the Mohmand country, 1935. The machine in the photo is captioned as "road digger".

Mohmand tribesmen on peace jirga with the governor of NWFP, October 19th, 1935. Photo courtesy: Farrukh Husain

A photo taken during the British invasion of the Mohmand territory in 1935. A camel ambulance of the British Indian Army for transporting their injured and dead.