afghanistan
other accounts, see Demetrius C. Boulger, India in the Nineteenth Century
(London, 1901), p. 283; Archibald Forbes, The Afghan Wars, 1839–1842 and
1878–80 (London, 1892), pp. 184–6; Howard Hensman, The Afghan War of
1879–1880 [1881] (Lahore, 1999), pp. 3–4, 112; Sultan Mahomed Khan, The
Life of Abdur Rahman Amir of Afghanistan [1900] (Karachi, Oxford and
New York, 1980), vol. i, p. 152.
9 Balfour, History of Lord Lytton, pp. 358–9.
10 For ‘Aisha’s conspiracy, see, Katib, Serāj al-Tawārīkh, vol. ii, pp. 352–4;
Khan, Life of Abdur Rahman, vol. i, p. 152; Boulger, India in the Nineteenth
Century, p. 283; Hensman, Afghan War of 1879–1880, p. 112.
11 Robson, ed., Roberts in India, pp. 119–21; the emphases are Lytton’s.
12 Trousdale, ed., War in Afghanistan, p. 101.
13 Robson, ed., Roberts in India, p. 157.
14 Ibid., p. 145.
15 John Alfred Gray, My Residence at the Court of the Amir [1895]
(London, 1987), p. 209.
16 Balfour, History of Lord Lytton, p. 408.
17 Sultan Muhammad Khan, The Life of Abdur Rahman, p. 192.
18 Balfour, History of Lord Lytton, p. 414.
19 M. Hassan Kakar, Afghanistan: A Study in International Political
Developments, 1880–1896 (Kabul, 1971), p. 56.
20 Ibid., pp. 63–4, n. 1.
21 For the Amir’s reply to Landsdowne’s letter, see Lee, The ‘Ancient
Supremacy’, appendix ix, p. 648.
22 Frank A. Martin, Under the Absolute Amir [1907] (Lahore, 1998), p. 102.
23 Angus Hamilton, Afghanistan (Boston, ma, and Tokyo, 1910), p. 227.
24 Government of India, Records of the Intelligence Party of the Afghan
Boundary Commission, 5 vols (Simla, 1888–91).
25 See Lee, The ‘Ancient Supremacy’, pp. 480–529.
26 For the Amir’s illness, see Jonathan Lee, ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan and the
“Maraz ul-mulūk”’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd ser., i/2
(July 1991), pp. 209–42.
27 For the Turkistan Atrocities, see Lee, The ‘Ancient Supremacy’, pp. 543–77,
Appendix ix, pp. 637–44, where the Kabul wakil’s, Warburton’s and
Griesbach’s reports are reproduced.
28 Carl Ludolph Griesbach, ‘Memorandum of the Disposal of the Turkistan
Prisoners by the Amir’, 13 August 1889, British Library (bl), Africa and
Asia Collection: India Office Library and Records (ior), Political and Secret
Letters from India, 1889, l/p&s/7/48, fols 327–52.
29 General Sir Fredrick Roberts, ‘Memorandum’, 22 May 1885, ior, Political
and Secret Letters from India, l/p&s/7/64, fol. 30 (p. 14); Lee,
The ‘Ancient Supremacy’, pp. 466–7.
30 See, for example, Khan, Life of Abdur Rahman, vol. i, p. 272; vol. ii, pp. 252–7.
31 For Landsdowne’s letter to the Amir, see Lee, The ‘Ancient Supremacy’,
Appendix ix, pp. 644–5.
32 For the Amer’s reply to Landsdowne’s letter, see ibid., Appendix ix,
pp. 645–7.
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