Afghanistan in the age of Empires: the Great Game for South and Central Asia

443 Pages·2018·31.116 MB·English

by  Farrukh Husain

AFGHANISTAN IN THE
AGE OF EMPIRES
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AFGHANISTAN IN THE
AGE OF EMPIRES
The Great Game for
South and Central Asia
Farrukh Husain
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First Edition 2018
Published by Silk Road Books
www.silkroadbooksandphotos.com
ISBN: 978-1-5272-1633-4
Copyright Farrukh Husain 2018
The right of Farrukh Husain to be identified as the author of this work has
been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act, 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored,
or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical or
photocopying, recording or otherwise without the express written permission
of the publisher.
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Shah Shuja Ul Mulk (courtesy of the Toor Collection)
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Dost Mohammed Khan 1838
watercolour probably by Don
Goncalves artist attached
to the Burnes Mission to the
Court of Dost Mohammed
Khan. (Author’s collection)
A depressed looking Dost
Mohammed Khan longing for
his homeland at Calcutta with
two of his sons, Muhammad
Akram Khan and Haider
Khan, and his cousin Abd
al-Ghani Khan painted after
his surrender and exile to
India by Emily Eden 1841
(Author’s collection)
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Ghulam Hyder Khan at Ghazni with
the Ghaznavid minarets behind him
by James Rattray (Anne S.K. Brown
Military Collection Brown University)
Ahmed Shah Durrani (Author’s
collection)
Prince Timur, Shah Shuja, Prince Safdarjung and an assistant by James Atkinson
(Author’s collection)
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Mir Alam an Afghan recruit to the A Pakhtun tribesman standing in his
British sponsored Afghan forces by rock fortress waiting for the British
James Rattray (courtesy Iona and Tim to come by Randolph B Holmes
Mitchell Collection) (Author’s collection)
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General Walter Fane’s painting of two armed Afghan men on the North West
Frontier 1879
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Afghan warrior in winter dress of sheep skin coat with long barrelled Jezail by
James Rattray (Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University)
Pakhtun tribesman in traditional white The sniper by Randolph B Holmes in a
outfit by Randolph B Holmes (Author’s posture amongst rocks which the British
collection) learned to dread during the first Afghan
war (Author’s collection)
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Yusufzai Couple, by an
unknown artist depicting a
rare illustration of a Yusufzai
lady from the nineteenth
century (Author’s collection)
Kandahar lady of rank by James Rattray (Anne S.K.Brown Military Collection
Brown University)
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