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6 Richard Cobden, Political Writings, 2nd edn (London, 1868), vol. i, p. 46.
7 Yapp, Strategies of British India, p. 201.
8 J. A. Norris, The First Afghan War, 1838–1842 (Cambridge, 1967), p. 43.
9 For the Indus survey, see Alexander Burnes, Travels into Bokhara: Being
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10 Metcalfe’s words quoted in Norris, First Afghan War, p. 45.
11 Arthur Conolly, Journey to the North of India, Overland from England
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14 Yapp, Strategies of British India, p. 209.
15 Joseph Wolff, Researches and Missionary Labours among the Jews,
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16 Burnes, Travels into Bokhara, vol. ii, p. 343.
17 Ibid., vol. i, pp. 189–229; vol. ii, p. 353.
18 Ibid., vol. i, p. 205.
19 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 381.
20 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 344.
21 Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 330–33.
22 Major D’Arcy Todd, ‘Observations on the Military Memoir of Captain
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23 For Masson in Kabul, see Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys, vols ii
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24 Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys, vol. iii, p. 493.
25 Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 295–323; Christine Noelle, State and Tribe in Nineteenth-
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