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2006.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In their rocky defiles their chiefs led the lives of absolute autocrats; the slave-trade flourished, and the ruler of Hunza, especially, whose territory led up to the foot of the comparatively easy passes leading to the Pamirs and the valley of the Yarkand river, found the looting of the rich caravans on the trade route between Central Asia and India a source of wealth. For centuries the name of the Hunza-Nagar men had struck terror into the hearts of all travelers in the country between Afghanistan and Kashgar.
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