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'''Andrew Dalgleish''' (1853 – 1888) on [[Karakoram Pass]], between [[Ladakh]], [[India]] and [[China]] was a Scottish trader, traveller and government agent during the [[Great Game]].

==Life and murder==
He took part in the first trading venture of the Central Asian Trading Company, the company having been set up in 1873 with the encouragement of Robert Barkely Shaw. Dalgleish was one of the first British traders in [[Ladakh]], engaged in trans-Karakoram trade in the 1870s and 1880s. He married a [[Yarkant County|Yarkandi]] wife. He had for some years traded between Yarkand and Leh and he was fluent in [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]].<ref name=bower>[[Hamilton Bower]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yWoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA240&dq=A+trip+to+Turkistan.+bower+Geographical+Journal+1895&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false A trip to Turkistan]. [[Geographical Journal]]. 1895. pp. 241-257</ref>

Dalgleish was murdered by an Afghan named Dad Mahomed, a Kakar [[Pashtun people|Pathan]] from [[Quetta]] who was once a merchant but had gone bankrupt. According to [[Hamilton Bower]], in May 1888 Dalgleish, accompanied by some pilgrims and servants, left Leh for Yarkand. Several days into their journey they were joined by Mahomed. On 8 April 1888 the party crossed the Karakoram Pass and set up some tents to rest. While drinking tea in a tent Dalgleish and Mahomed had a conversation regarding Mahomed's debts. Mahomed excused himself and then returned with a gun and fired into the tent, striking Dalgleish in the shoulder. Dalgleish escaped from the tent but Mahomed pursued him with a sword and killed him. Mahomed did not immediately flee but instead forced Dalgleish's servants to make him a meal, then he slept in his victim's tent. The next day Mahomed departed and Dalgleish's servants and pilgrims made their way to Yarkand. The British community in Yarkand expressed their outrage over the murder and pleaded with the local [[yamen]] to have the murderer arrested. Mahomed later arrived in Kashgar and despite pleas from the Russian Consul [[Nikolai Petrovsky]] local officials refused to arrest Mahomed.<ref name=bower/>

During his travels through [[Qing China]]'s [[Xinjiang Province]] from 1889–90, British military officer Hamilton Bower attempted without success to pursue Dalgleish's killer.<ref name=bower/> Mahomed was arrested in 1890 in [[Samarkand]] (then [[Russia]]) and committed suicide in prison.

A small memorial made of marble slab was erected by Bower on the desolate site of his death. It read in [[English language|English]] and [[Persian language|Persian]], "Here fell Andrew Dalgleish, murdered by an Afghan, April 6th, 1888."<ref name=dunmore>[[Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore|The Earl of Dunmore]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kSnLaNr4U6kC&pg=RA1-PA386&lpg=RA1-PA386&dq=Andrew+Dalgleish%27%27%27+and+1888+and+murdered&source=bl&ots=xxFP_5oWqh&sig=jBvBQ7F3P72ClVmxbHRAwkK5nU8&hl=en&ei=yFwITPDtAYGKNYW8zbUE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Andrew%20Dalgleish%27%27%27%20and%201888%20and%20murdered&f=false Journey in the Pamirs and Central Asia.] Geographical Journal. V. II. No. 5. November. 1893.</ref>

His resting place is in a Christian cemetery in Leh, Ladakh.

== Further reading ==
*Rizvi, Janet. (1996) ''Ladakh. Crossroads of High Asia''. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. {{ISBN|0-19-564546-4}}, pp. 105–106

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.org/stream/bookofescapesand002486mbp/bookofescapesand002486mbp_djvu.txt A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, by John Buchan] pp. 286–291.

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