Nothing But! Book One: The Awakening

Contents: 1. Rendezvous at Bandipur-1894. 2. Sikandar Khan’s enchanting Kanzalwan. 3. To gurez and beyond. 4. Miss pig and whistle 1984. 5. Sarfaraz Khan’s Gilgit. 6. Heroes of Hunza. 7. To the roof of the world and beyond. 8. Cocktails at Chitral. 9. Meeting the Bajwas and home sweet home. 10. Back to Chitral. 11. The cost of peace. 12. Queen’s diamond Jubile-1897. 13. Curzons India, the Sens and the Husseins of Calcutta and the Rehmans of Peshawar. 14. Captain Reginald Edward’s India and the Great Delhi Durbar. 15. The historic rendezvous in Delhi. 16. The meeting of the minds. 17. Those were the days. 18. The Taj Mahal in Bombay. 19. To the far-flung frontiers. 20. The royal visit and the terrible tragedy at Kanzalwan. 21. The seeds of revolution are sown. 22. Time to act (1906-1910). 23. Change of guard and the second crowning (1910-1912). 24. The great bonding of families begins. 25. Prelude to war. 26. The war clouds gather. 27. The sacrifies at flanders-September-December 1915-Part-1. 28. The sacrifices at flanders-September-December 1915 Part-2. 29. The beginning of the end-new-year’s day 1916. 30. The prelude to the great Massacre. 31. Massacre of the innocent-13th April 1919. Spanning twenty-five years, Nothing but is a magnificent portrait of the British Indian Empire from the early days of the explorers, through the height of the Raj, to the end of the Great War. Moving from the magnificent Himalayas to the grandeur of the Empire, then to the desperation of the battlefields of Flanders, this is a compelling story of love, loyalty and aspiration—moving quickly as tragedy happens, tensions surface and betrayal and intrigue touch the people and start to shape the world at the beginning of the twentieth century.