references42 Quoted in Gregorian, Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, p. 256.
43 The Amir was out of the country from December 1927 to July 1928.
44 Ludwig W. Adamec, Afghanistan’s Foreign Affairs to the Mid-twentieth
Century (Tucson, az, 1974), p. 119.
45 Ibid., p. 127.
46 Roland Wild, Amanullah, ex-King of Afghanistan (London, 1932), p. 167.
47 Ibid., p. 100.
48 Quoted in Poullada, Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, p. 169.
49 Nawid, Religious Response to Social Change, p. 149.
50 Quoted in Gregorian, Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, p. 259.
51 According to a secret file in the Peshawar Record Office, British officials
gifted Nur al-Mashayekh land and a shop in Peshawar ‘as a very special
case’ and ‘under very secret policy’. The report notes that ‘in view of our
relations... it is desirable that Hazrat Nurul Mashaiikh (sic) should be
treated with special consideration,’ Memorandum, 6 and 23 March 1953;
Political Secretary to he the Governor nwfp to Scrtry to Govt. of Pakistan,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and C.W. Relations, Karachi, 11 April 1953,
B Proceedings, Foreign Punjab Govt., Civil Secretariat nwfp (Home
Medical), Previous Deptt. F.F. Political Civil Secretariat nwfp, Grant of
Land to Hazrat of Shor Bazaar in Peshawar, S(eries) no. 1795, bundle 65
(1950).
52 Asta Olesen, Islam and Politics in Afghanistan (Richmond, Surrey,
1996), pp. 147–8. According to Katib, Kabul under Siege, p. 115, Qazi ‘Abd
al-Rahman was not executed until after the fall of ’Aman Allah Khan.
53 Olesen, Islam and Politics, pp. 150–53.
54 Saqau is the Dari colloquial form of saqab. Bacha-yi Saqau was the
disparaging title used by his royalist enemies after 1930, for water carriers
were at the bottom of the social ladder. Habib Allah Kalakani’s relatives,
however, claim he inherited this title from his father, who carried water
to Afghan troops in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
55 See Nawid, Religious Response to Social Change, p. 164; Katib, Kabul
under Siege; Shah Agha Mujadidi, Amīr Habīb Allāh (Peshawar?, n.d.). The
so-called autobiography of Bacha-yi Saqau, My Life from Brigand to King
(London, 1936) is a fiction authored by Sardar Iqbal ‘Ali Shah. For the India
Office’s extensive secret file on Ikbal Shah’s activities see British Library,
Africa and Asia Collection: India Office Library and Records, Departmental
Papers: Political and Secret Separate (Subject) Files, 1902–1931, l/p&s/10/806.
56 Katib, Kabul under Siege, p. 34.
57 Nawid, Religious Response to Social Change, p. 165.
58 See Baker and Ivelaw-Chapman, Wings over Kabul.
59 Nadir Khan’s declaration quoted in Gregorian, Emergence of Modern
Afghanistan, p. 290.
60 Khan, My Memoirs, p. 47.
61 Humphrey’s comment quoted in Adamec, Afghanistan’s Foreign Affairs,
p. 176.
62 Humphrey’s report quoted in Baker and Ivelaw-Chapman, Wings over
Kabul, p. 43.