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Conflict South Asia

Waziristan Campaigns

1919 CE – 1939 CE · 20 years

Decades of British campaigns in Waziristan's mountainous terrain proved that the region was nearly impossible to pacify — a lesson that would be relearned by NATO forces in the 21st century.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • British India
  • Waziri and Mahsud tribes

Key moments

Defining events in the Waziristan Campaigns.

  1. 1919-1920 Mahsud Campaign
  2. 1925 Pink's War
  3. 1936-1939 Waziristan Campaign

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

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Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

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India

Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1919 CE and 1939 CE.

1919 CE Third Anglo-Afghan War 1921 CE Moplah Revolt (Malabar Rebellion) 1919 CE Greco-Turkish War 1919 CE Polish–Soviet War 1919 CE Irish War of Independence

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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