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56
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 399.
57
National Army Museum, NAM 7101–24–3, Roberts to Sturt, 10 May 1840.
58
Jules Stewart,
Crimson Snow: Britain’s First Disaster in Afghanistan
,
London, 2008, p. 64.
59
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 124, The Thirty-Fifth Event.
60
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, pp. 235–6.
61
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 5 October 1840, no. 66, Macnaghten to Auckland.
62
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 314–15.
63
BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 36474, fol. 188, Auckland to Hobhouse, 21 December 1839.
64
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 8 June 1840, no. 95–6, Auckland to Shah Shuja.
65
M. E. Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’,
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, vol. 27, no. 2 (1964), p. 342. See also Thomas Barfield,
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
,
Princeton, 2010,pp. 118–20.
66
BL, OIOC, ESL, 88, no. 24 of no. 32 of 17 August 1842, Lal, Memorandum,29 June 1842.
67
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II,
pp. 380–1.
68
Noelle,
State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
, p. 50.
69
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 15 January 1840, no. 75–77, Shah Shuja to Auckland.
70
Durand,
The First Afghan War and its Causes
, p. 245.
71
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 24 August 1840, covering letter of Macnaghten of 22 July 1840.
72
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 15 January 1840, no. 75–77, Shah Shuja to Auckland.
73
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 314–15.
74
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, pp. 124–5, The Thirty-Fifth Event.
75
Rattray
, The Costumes of the Various Tribes
, p. 3, and Lockyer Willis Hart,
Character and Costumes of Afghanistan
,
London, 1843, p. 1.
76
Shahmat Ali,
The Sikhs and Afghans in Connexion with India and Persia
, London, 1847, p. 479.
77
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 24 August 1840,
Sir A. Burnes’ report of an interview with Shah Shooja with some notes of Sir Wm Macnaghten to GG. Capt. Lawrence accompanied Burnes.
78
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 5 October 1840, no. 66, Macnaghten to Auckland.
79
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 245.
80
BL, OIOC, IOR L/PS/5/162.
81
BL, OIOC, ESL 74: no. 5 of no. 24 of no. 13, 19 February 1841.
82
BL, OIOC, ESL 70: no. 35 of no. 99 of 13 September 1840, Burnes Memo of a conversation with Shah Shuja, 12 July 1840.
83
National Army Museum, NAM 7101–24–3, Roberts to Osborne, 18 February 1840.
84
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. I, pp. 256–7 .
85
Kaye,
Lives of Indian Officers
,
vol. I, p. 272.
86
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 17.
87
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 314–15.
88
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 237.
89
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 17.
90
Ibid.
91
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, p. 197; BL, OIOC, no. 7 of no. 122 of 16 October 1840 (L/PS/5/152), Macnaghten to Torrens, 22 August 1840.
92
Dennie,
Personal Narrative
, p. 126.
93
Mohammad Ghulam Kohistani,
Jangnama
, pp. 184–6.
94
Ibid, pp. 157–8.
95
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 349–50.
96
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 205–10.
97
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 360.
98
Mohammad Ghulam Kohistani,
Jangnama
, pp. 193–5.
99
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, pp. 49–52.
100
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 126, The Thirty-Fifth Event. For the tradition of rulers surrendering see the perceptive analysis in Barfield,
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
, pp. 117–18.
101
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, p. 209.
102
Kaye,
History of the War in Afghanistan
, vol. II, p. 98.
103
Kaye,
Lives of Indian Officers
, vol. II, pp. 280–1.
104
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, p. 210.
105
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 240.
106
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, pp. 126–7, The Thirty-Fifth Event.
107
Stewart,
Crimson Snow
, p. 71.
108
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, p. 211.
109
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 53.

Chapter 6: We Fail from Our Ignorance

 
1
Eden,
Up the Country
,
p. 389.
 
2
Ibid.
 
3
Eden,
Miss Eden’s Letters
, p. 334.
 
4
Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac,
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Europe
, London, 1999, p. 93.
 
5
Eden,
Up the Country
,
p. 390.
 
6
BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 37703, Auckland to Elphinstone, 18 December 1840.
 
7
Helen Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier’s Life: Lt. General Colin Mackenzie CB 1825–1881
, 2 vols, Edinburgh, 1884, vol. I, p. 65.
 
8
Ibid., p. 75.
 
9
National Army Museum, NAM 1999–02–116–9–1, Magrath Letters, Letter 9, Cantonment Caubul, 22 June 1841.
10
BL, OIOC, ESL 86: no. 38 of no. 14, 17 May 1842, Elphinstone Memo, December 1841.
11
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur F89/54, Major-General William Elphinstone to James D. Buller Elphinstone, 5 April 1841.
12
Eden,
Miss Eden’s Letters
, p. 343.
13
BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 37705, Auckland to George Clerk, 23 May 1841. See also Hopkins,
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
, p. 67.
14
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 291; Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 382; see also Yapp,
Strategies
,
p. 366.
15
See for example the letter from Malik Mohamad Khan and Abdah Sultan in Ghazni to Naib Aminullah Khan Logari, undated but c.1841, reproduced in Amini,
Paadash-e-Khidmatguzaari-ye-Saadiqaane Ghazi Nayab Aminullah Khan Logari
, p. 167. The original was in an album of letters (which now seem to have disappeared) in the Kabul museum.
16
M. E. Yapp, ‘Disturbances in Western Afghanistan, 1839–41’,
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, vol. 26, no. 2 (1963), p. 310.

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