afghanistan
(Abingdon, 1977), pp. 32–6.
26 Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys, vol. ii, p. 302.
27 Mohan Lal, Life of the Amir Dost Mohammad Khan of Kabul [1846]
(New Delhi and Chennai, 2004), vol. i, p. 158.
28 Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys, vol. iii, pp. 325–6; Yapp, Strategies
of British India, pp. 14–15.
29 Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys, vol. iii, p. 307.
30 Ibid., vol. iii, p. 310.
31 Ibid., pp. 329–32.
32 Ibid., p. 332.
33 Ibid., p. 334.
34 Josiah Harlan, A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun [1842] (Philadelphia,
pa, 2005); Frank E. Ross, ed., Central Asia: Personal Narrative of General
Josiah Harlan, 1823–1841 (London, 1939); for his biography, see Ben
Macintyre, Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man who would be King
(London, 2004).
35 Melvin M. Kessler, Ivan Viktorovich Vitkevich, 1806–1839 (Washington, dc,
1960).
36 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. i, p. 248.
37 Ibid., pp. 250–52; Norris, First Afghan War, pp. 92–3.
38 Yapp, Strategies of British India, p. 223.
39 Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys, vol. iii, pp. 384–91.
40 Norris, First Afghan War, pp. 98–9.
41 Yapp, Strategies of British India, p. 232.
42 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. i, p. 259.
43 Norris, First Afghan War, p. 122.
44 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. i, p. 259.
45 David Charles Champagne, ‘The Afghan-Iranian Conflict over Herat
Province and European Intervention, 1796–1863: A Reinterpretation’,
PhD thesis, University of Texas, 1981, fols 174, 148.
46 For Asaf al-Daula’s campaign, see Jonathan L. Lee, The ‘Ancient Supremacy’:
Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle for Balkh, 1732–1901 (Leiden, Cologne
and New York, 1996), pp. 149–58; Faiz Muhammad Katib, Serāj al-Tawārikh
(Kabul, 1331–3 s./1913–15), vol. i, pp. 132–4.
47 For Eldred Pottinger, see Maud Diver, The Hero of Herat: A Frontier
Biography in a Romantic Form (London, 1912); Kaye, Lives of the Indian
Officers, vol. ii, pp. 145–208; George Pottinger, The Afghan Connection:
The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger (Edinburgh, 1983).
48 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. i, p. 260; Yapp, Strategies of British India, pp. 146–7.
49 Norris, First Afghan War, p. 133.
50 Ibid., p. 153.
51 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. i, p. 344.
52 John William Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan (London, 1874), vol. i,
p. 209n; see also Louis Dupree, Afghanistan, 2nd edn (Princeton, nj, 1978),
p. 374 n. 9, where he discusses alternative versions of Vitkevitch’s reception
and his subsequent suicide.
53 Whitteridge, Charles Masson, p. 152.
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