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Thank you for calling out the fabrication of the history in this #Kesari movie!

A few corrections on the following take of yours.

1. Shabkadar/Shankargarh was attacked by Momand Pashtuns not by Afridis.
2. This attack wasn't the start of Jehad or revolt of 1897-98; if the cut over Date of Durand agreement is to be agreed upon then the Chitral Campaign of 1895 contributed, in general, to the raising of the Pashtuns in revolt for the fear of loss of sovereignty/freedom.
One event that happened in June 1897 in Tochi Valley (disaster of Maizer village) where locals revolted against the imposition of fines by the British, could be regarded as start of the revolt but there is disagreement on it ,on the British/Indian part.
This event which happened exactly 2 months before the attack on Shankgah, more than 26 officers/sepoys of the British/Indian force was killed in that revolt, majority of whom were Sikh but Pathans soldiers were also killed.
However, beyond doubt and disagreement, it was the rising of Pashtuns in Malakand on 26th July 1897 which marked the beginning of the uprisings or Jehad along the Pashtun frontier as record by Winston Churchill in The story of the Malakand field force:an episode of frontier war
The same is reported by the britishbattles.com on the following link.

britishbattles.com/north-west-fro…
Shankargarh was attacked on 8th of August, later than the above events. The burning of Shankargarh was a definite retaliation but to call it wrong or right is another debate altogether.

However, important is to make note of the wholesale plunder and burning, in the next tweet
Burning of whole towns, villages and dead bodies were common tools of oppression that the British-Indian force employed in the Pashtun land. On 2nd of August, the British burnt the whole town of Thana in Malakand. They burnt village after village.

It was the aggressive forward policy of British-India to keep the frontier tribesmen in 'perpetual awe and restraint' and they continued their policy as late as 1940s. They just switched over to new tools carpet bombing by airplanes, tanks and chemical weapons.
The revolt was definitely a fight for sovereignty and freedom against the British. All the battles fought were on Pashtun land.

archive.org/stream/pathanr…
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