ABSTRACT
H ig h l y exaggerated statements have been made from time to time by writers who know little con cerning the tribesmen on the North-West Frontier of India and their importance at the present time in relation to the peace of India and the world. Novelists have chosen this remote region as the scene of their sensational romances. In this way, a glamour has been thrown over everything connected with the Frontier which has distorted the true picture. So far has misrepresentation gone, that these scattered and divided tribesmen have been regarded as a war menace to the whole of India. But such a danger could never have come from them alone: it was always a Russian invasion, through Central Asia, that was feared in the old days: and even that danger has ceased to exist in any serious form to-day, as the last chapter will have shown.
