Durbar at Dir.
Photograph from an album, 1919. 
Compiled by Lt Col G J Davis. 
Shows Alamzeb Khan, Nawab of Dir, Chief Commissioner, Shahjehan Khan and Satbar Khan.
Associated with India, North West Frontier.

The Princely State of Dir was located at the foot of the Lowarai Pass, the main route into Chitral. A durbar was a traditional feudal gathering that dated back to Moghul times. It was resurrected by the British Raj as a way of reinforcing the loyalty of princely states to their imperial overlord.