Balochistan: a journey through history

Mehrgarh: where farming began in the subcontinent Nausharo, Pirak and the ancient settlements of Kachi Indus Valley civilisation and Balochistan: from Sutkagen Dor to the Bolan Kulli and Nal: the Bronze Age cultures of Balochistan's southern hills Maka and Gedrosia: the edge of the Achaemenid empire Alexander's return march through Makran, 325 BC: what the Greek sources record Mauryas, Greco-Bactrians and Kushans: what is known of Balochistan after Alexander Sasanian era: Turan and Makran in the long silence of Balochistan's history The battle with Rasil and the coming of Islam to Makran The route of Muhammad bin Qasim through Makran (711) Qiqan, Qusdar and Turan in the eyes of Arab geographers Ghaznavid and Ghurid eras: Quzdar and Kech Makran under Ghazna and Ghor Arrival of the Baloch tribes: from Kerman to Makran Brahui: one language, one puzzle Mir Chakar Rind and the Rind–Lashari wars Balochistan's history preserved in heroic poetry Mughals, Safavids and the struggle for Kandahar Humayun's passage through Balochistan in 1543 The founding of the Khanate of Kalat Mir Abdullah Khan: the Ahmadzai Khan of Kalat who pushed its borders and died in Kachhi Mir Nasir Khan Noori: the man who built Balochistan Ahmad Shah Abdali and the 1758 Treaty of Kalat Sarawan, Jhalawan and the tribal confederacy: Nasir Khan's system of rule Jam Durrak and the literary tradition of the Kalat court After Nasir Khan: Kalat's internal struggles Lasbela, Kharan and Makran: three states and their ties with Kalat British enter the Bolan Pass: the First Afghan War, 1839 The fall of Kalat and Mir Mehrab Khan (1839) The era of treaties: Kalat and the British in 1841, 1854 and 1876 Robert Sandeman and the "Sandeman system" Quetta: the birth of a cantonment town British Baluchistan province (1887) Railways in the mountains: Bolan, Harnai and the Khojak tunnel Royal Jirga and tribal administration under British rule in Balochistan 31 May 1935: the Quetta earthquake Qazi Muhammad Isa and the Pakistan Movement in Balochistan, 1939 to 1947 Gwadar's return to Pakistan: how Oman's enclave came back in 1958