Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bruce, Richard Isaac
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BRUCE, RICHARD ISAAC (1840–)
Born 1840: son of Jonathan Bruce: served in the Afghan war, 1878–9: on the N.W. Frontier of India: at Daulatzai, 1884: in the Zhob Valley expedition, 1890: co-operated in the opening of the Gomal Pass, 1890: British Commissioner of the Afghan-Waziristan Delimitation Commission, 1894: at Wano, 1894: in Waziristan, 1894–5: a Commissioner in the Panjab: author of a Gazetteer of Dera Ghazi Khan, and a manual of Beluchi: a History of the Marri-Beluch tribe: of The Forward Policy and its Results.