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

afghanistan watan is not Fatherland or Nation, but the region of one’s birth (such as Panjshir, Herat, Wardak or Mazar), while t ...

reform and repression, 1901–19 of the twentieth century Pushtu was barely a written, let alone a literary, language. The emergen ...

afghanistan while some of the more radical Pushtunists claimed that the Pushtun ‘race’ was part of the Herrenvolk, or Master Rac ...

reform and repression, 1901–19 dissent. In one editorial Tarzi went as far as to claim there was not ‘the slightest trace of des ...

afghanistan he employed Barakat Allah as a subeditor on the Seraj al-Akhbar. Despite frequent rebukes from the Amir, Tarzi conti ...

reform and repression, 1901–19 closest advisers. During the six-hour meeting, the envoys argued the case for Afghanistan joining ...

afghanistan of elders and religious leaders to discuss the situation. Meanwhile nego- tiations continued informally with Nasr Al ...

reform and repression, 1901–19 War. The German-Afghan Treaty of 1916, however, was yet another step in Afghanistan’s move to ful ...

afghanistan Kabul, leaving his younger son, ’Aman Allah Khan, in charge of the capital. In early January 1919 the Amir went on a ...

reform and repression, 1901–19 endemic, while the influenza epidemic of 1919 led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Afgha ...

Abdur Rahman was content with repression whereas Amanullah hoped for conversion. leon b. poullada 1 [’Aman Allah Khan] admitted. ...

dreams melted into air, 1919–29 Civil war was avoided only because the officer corps of the Jalalabad garrison declared for ’Ama ...

afghanistan The mustufi’s terminally sick brother, Hasan Khan, was also sentenced to death, but he died before the execution cou ...

dreams melted into air, 1919–29 chief adviser, positions that meant he was now able to influence the young and highly impression ...

afghanistan In the aftermath of the November Armistice of 1918 which ended hostil- ities in the First World War, British diploma ...

dreams melted into air, 1919–29 known as the Massacre of Amritsar. On 13 April 1919 Brigadier General Dyer ordered his sepoys, w ...

afghanistan among the frontier tribes. Memories of Nadir Khan’s brutal suppression of the Mangal revolt a decade earlier were st ...

dreams melted into air, 1919–29 armed levies. As a result, the plan to coordinate the attack on the Khyber Pass with the uprisin ...

afghanistan garrison, concentrated all his forces in the main fort and decided to remain behind its walls until a relief army co ...

dreams melted into air, 1919–29 burnt and pillaged the Waziri settlement of Biland Khel. Further south, in Baluchistan, British ...