Afghanistan. A History from 1260 to the Present - Jonathan L. Lee (2018)

afghanistan In his reply to the Khan of Bukhara, Dost Muhammad Khan pointed out that when he had gone to Bukhara to plead for as ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 for his refusal to invade India, Nasr Allah Khan was powerless to assist Qataghan, for he ha ...

afghanistan had done nothing to prevent his death. Vengeance, it seems, was at least one reason why Britain did not oppose Dost ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 power was concentrated in his and his sons’ hands. The shift to a central- ized autocracy wa ...

afghanistan Amir Sher ‘Ali Khan’s spies intercepted correspondence between the two brothers that implicated them in a conspiracy ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 ‘Ali agreed and sent Afzal Khan a Qur’an sealed with the royal seal, with a letter inscribed ...

afghanistan For the next seven months Sher ‘Ali Khan devoted himself to memorizing the Qur’an and mourned the death of his favou ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 discovered he had written to Shahzada Shahpur, Shuja‘ al-Mulk’s son, in Ludhiana, offering h ...

afghanistan The siege of Maimana Following his defeat at Qal‘a-yi Allahdad, Sher ‘Ali Khan retired to Takhtapul where he decided ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 was owed to them before they were once more sent into battle, so their families at least wou ...

afghanistan city under siege and ordered sappers to commence mining operations under the walls. While the siege of Maimana dragg ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 as Russian Turkistan and Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–1882), a general of Austrian ...

afghanistan was an ideal opportunity for Russian interference, either by providing military assistance to a pro-Russian claimant ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 control of Kabul in the spring of 1868 that Lawrence accorded him recog- nition as Amir of a ...

afghanistan Rawlinson was convinced Russia did not intend to halt its military advances on the Amu Darya, but planned to secure ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 the friends, and the enemy of the enemies’ of the British, but there was no reciprocal commi ...

afghanistan ‘the most influential and leading member of the Ameer’s Privy Council’. When al-Afghani urged ‘Azam Khan to abandon ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Britain ‘would not force European officers or Residents upon him against his wish’. 19 The V ...

afghanistan military and political influence beyond the Amu Darya and securing stra- tegic depth on India’s Northwest Frontier. ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 was defeated and fled to Persia. The following spring he reoccupied Herat and wrote to his f ...