afghanistan
‘Ancient Supremacy’: Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle for Balkh, 1732–
1901 (Leiden, Cologne and New York, 1996), pp. 163–78.
6 Kaye, History, vol. ii, pp. 550–51.
7 Hobhouse’s report quoted in Norris, The First Afghan War, p. 314.
8 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. ii, p. 344; Colin Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine
of a Soldier’s Life (Edinburgh, 1884), vol. i, p. 179.
9 James Atkinson, The Expedition into Affghanistan [sic]: Notes and Sketches
Descriptive of the Country [1842] (Uckfield, 2004), p. 354.
10 ‘Abd al-Karim ‘Alawi, Muhābarāt-i Kābul wa Kandhār (Kanpoor, 1264
s./1866), pp. 47–9. I am grateful to Sayyid Reza Huseini for pointing out
this reference.
11 Macnaghten’s dispatch quoted in Kaye, History, vol. i, p. 561.
12 James Atkinson, Sketches in Afghaunistan (London, 1842), plate 18.
13 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. ii, p. 456.
14 Quoted in Kaye, History, vol. i, p. 551.
15 Ellenborough’s comment quoted in ibid., vol. i, pp. 567–8.
16 Ellenborough’s dispatch quoted in Norris, First Afghan War, p. 405.
17 Auckland’s dispatch quoted in ibid., p. 338.
18 Quoted in Kaye, History, vol. i, p. 609.
19 Todd’s report quoted in Malcolm Yapp, Strategies of British India (Oxford,
1980), p. 365.
20 Macnaghten’s report quoted in Kaye, History, vol. i, pp. 602–3.
21 Macnaghten’s report quoted in ibid., pp. 594–5.
22 Quoted in ibid., p. 549.
23 See M. Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’, Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies, xxvii (1964), pp. 338–44.
24 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. ii, pp. 384–5.
25 J. Greenwood, Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Afghanistan
under General Pollock [1884] (Uckfield, 2004), p. 202.
26 For Charikar, see John Colpoys Haughton, Char-ee-kar and Service there
with the 4th Goorkha Regiment (London, 1879).
27 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. ii, p. 416.
28 Ibid., pp. 393–9.
29 Ibid., p. 407.
30 Quoted in Lady Florentine Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan,
1841–2 [1843] (Lahore, 1999), p. 170.
31 Kaye, History, vol. ii, p. 281. In subsequent editions of Kaye’s history, large
sections of Macnaghten’s report and other private papers were culled, see
ibid. (Delhi, 1999), pp. 128–9.
32 Ibid.
33 Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier’s Life, vol. i, p. 241.
34 Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. ii, p. 421.
35 The account of Macnaghten’s assassination is taken from Mackenzie’s
eyewitness account, see Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier’s Life,
vol. i, pp. 238–49.
36 For events after the British withdrawal, see Lal, Life of the Amir, vol. ii,
pp. 436–53; Yapp, ‘Revolutions of 1841–2’, pp. 350–64.
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