Crossword-Solution: AFGH 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

HOW RAJA RASÂLU BECAME A JOGI _Hodînagarî_--A veritable will-o'-the-wisp in the ancient Panjâb geography: Hodînagarî, Udenagar, Udaynagar, is the name of innumerable ruins all over the northern Panjâb, from Siâlkot to Jalâlâbâd in Afghânistân beyond the Khaibar Pass.

They gave him the first news of the death of the king, seized upon his treasure, and, with the aid of this and the military chest, Ahmad Shâh took possession of these five provinces, and formed them into the little independent kingdom of Afghânistan, over which he long reigned, and from which he occasionally invaded India and Khurâsân.[3] Shâhrukh Mirzâ had his eyes put out some time after by a faction.

This was indeed the state of the Pathân sovereigns in India--they were the creatures of their armies; and their armies were also employed against the people, who feared and detested them all.[6] The Emperor Tughlak, on his return at the head of the army, which he had led into Bengal to chastise some rebellious subjects, was met at Afghânpur by his eldest son, Jûnâ, whom he had left in the government of the capital.

This is the 'Frontier Policy' and the treatment of Afgh[=a]nist[=a]n, on which two distinct schools of thought emerged.

One school, ever jealous of the Russian advance, maintained that our Indian Government should establish agencies in Afgh[=a]nist[=a]n with or without the consent of the Am[=i]r; that it should interfere, if need be, to secure the throne for a prince who was attached to us; that British troops should be stationed beyond the Indus, where they could make their influence felt beyond our borders.