Editing Gilgit (section)

=== British Raj ===
{{Main|Gilgit Agency}}
In 1877, in order to guard against the advance of Russia, the British India Government, acting as the [[suzerain]] power of the princely state of [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], established the [[Gilgit Agency]]. The Agency was re-established under control of the British Resident in Jammu and Kashmir. It comprised the Gilgit [[Wazarat]]; the State of Hunza and Nagar; the Punial Jagir; the Governorships of Yasin, [[Kuh-Ghizr]] and [[Ishkoman]], and Chilas.

The [[Tajiks in China|Tajiks of Xinjiang]] sometimes enslaved the Gilgiti and Kunjuti Hunza.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxwPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56|title=Report of a mission to Yarkund in 1873, under command of Sir T. D. Forsyth: with historical and geographical information regarding the possessions of the ameer of Yarkund|author=Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth|year=1875|publisher=Printed at the Foreign department press|page=56|author-link=Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth}}</ref>
[[File:100 years of the RAF MOD 45163719.jpg|thumb|British [[Westland Wapiti]]s based in Gilgit around 1930]]
In 1935, the British India government demanded from the Jammu and Kashmir state to lease them Gilgit town plus most of the Gilgit Agency and the hill-states Hunza, Nagar, Yasin and Ishkoman for 60 years.{{sfn|Bangash|2010|p=122}}

[[Abdullah Sahib]] was an [[Arain]] and belonged to Chimkor Sahib village of [[Ambala]] district [[Punjab, British India]]. Abdullah Sahib was the first Muslim governor of the Gilgit in [[British India|British]] time period and was close associate of Maharaja Partap Singh.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Khan Bahadur Kalay Khan, a Mohammed Zai Pathan, was the Governor of Gilgit Hunza and Kashmir before partition.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}