Dehradun, July 14 -- Chandigarh Museum

'It was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who his uncle accused of having secretly sold his country to the British.' A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road (1907) is a tale of three generations of one family trying to forge a road in the restive North West Frontier region.

To get to Bellevue, they cut across the spur of a balding fifty acres. The first rock-cut Tassin map of Mussoorie dates to 1831. It shows that a certain Lieutenant Fisher, and was called Bellevue up until 1844. Subsequently, it was acquired by the Government for an Afhgan Emir, Mohammad Yaqub Khan and his entourage, who had signed the Treaty of Gandamak, outside Jalalabad, ceding Afghan...