ABSTRACT
The war itself, in which the demands of a global conflict were pitted against the need to pacify a potentially volatile Muslim population receptive to sedition and political disturbance, was a true test of the Political Department's ability to manage this particular arena over a prolonged period of tension. And although this was achieved with some success, its task was far from over with the end of the conflict, as the occasion of the Third Anglo-Afghan War of May 1919, the subsequent uprising in Waziristan and the emergence of an independent Afghanistan on India's western border would illustrate. The Mohmand campaign had also drawn the government's attention to the subject of Afghanistan's posture toward India. As Chief Commissioner, and as a political officer of long standing and experience, he had developed and maintained a comprehensive intelligence network stretching throughout the tribal agencies and across the Durand Line.
