afghanistan16 Mountstuart Elphinstone, An Account of the K ingdom of Caubul, 2nd edn
[1839] (Karachi, 1972), vol. ii, p. 247.
17 Umar Kamal Khan, Rise of Saddozais and Emancipation of Afghans
(Multan, 1999), pp. 314–17.
18 Ganda Singh, Ahmad Shah Durrani: Father of Modern Afghanistan [1959]
(Lahore, 1981); Khan, Rise of Saddozais, p. 321, n. 41.
19 Al-Husaini, Tārīkh-i Ahmad Shāhī, fols 17–18.
20 Elphinstone, Kingdom of Caubul, vol. ii, p. 281; George Forster, A Journey
from Bengal to England through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire,
Afghanistan, and Persia etc., 2nd edn (London, 1808), vol. ii, p. 95.
21 Abu’l-Hasan ibn Amin Gulistana, ‘The End of Nadir Shah, being Extracts
from the Mujmal al-Tawārīkh’, trans. Jadunath Sarkar, Modern Review,
xlv/5 (May 1929), pp. 533–6.
22 Singh, Ahmad Shah, p. 29; Khan, Rise of Saddozais, p. 320, says the treasure
was only 30 lakh, or 3 million rupees, but even this was a substantial sum
of money.
23 For an image of the Sher-i Surkh shrine, see Mildred Caudill, Helmand-
Arghandab Valley: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Lashkargah, 1969), p. 6.
24 Mir Gholam Mohammad Ghobar, Ahmad Shāh Bābā-yi Afghān (Kabul,
1322 s./1943).
25 Louis Dupree, Afghanistan, 2nd edn (Princeton, nj, 1978), p. 333n.
26 See ‘Aziz al-Din Wakili Popalzai, Tārīkh-i Khirqa-yi Sharīfa Qandhār
(Kabul, 1367 s./1989–90); McChesney, Wa q f, pp. 222–7.
27 Sultan Mahomed Khan, The Life of Abdur Rahman Amir of Afghanistan
[1900] (Karachi, 1980), vol. ii, pp. 216–17.
28 Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 215–16.
29 Faiz Muhammad Katib, Sarāj al-Tawārīkh (Kabul, 1333 s./1914–15), vol. i,
pp. 9–10.
30 Ghobar, Ahmad Shāh, p. 88, claims that Sabir Shah was the son of a certain
Ustad Lahori, though he cites no sources.
31 Singh, Ahmad Shah, p. 27, n. 5.
32 See Nile Green, Islam and the Army in Colonial India (Cambridge,
New York and Melbourne, 2009).
33 Singh, Ahmad Shah, pp. 27–8.
34 Muhammad Jamil Hanifi, ‘Editing the Past: Colonial Production of
Hegemony through the “Loya Jerga” in Afghanistan’, Iranian Studies,
xxxvii/2 (June 2004), pp. 296–322.
35 Elphinstone, Kingdom of Caubul, vol. i, p. 95; Khan, Life of Abdur Rahman,
vol. ii, p. 499.
3 Ahmad Shah and the Durrani Empire, 1747–721 Mountstuart Elphinstone, An Account of the K ingdom of Caubul [1839]
(Karachi, 1972), vol. i, p. 233.
2 See Ganda Singh, Ahmad Shah Durrani [1959] (Lahore, 1981), pp. 347–56;
Elphinstone, Kingdom of Caubul, vol. i, pp. 210–35, 332–3.
3 El phinstone, Kingdom of Caubul, vol. i, p. 229.