Cabool : Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108075371
ISBN-13
9781108075374
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 6th, 2014
Print length
440 Pages
Weight
560 grams
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21.60 x 14.00 x 2.50 cms
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The soldier, political agent and covert operative Alexander Burnes (1805–41) was stationed in Kabul at a time when British interference was greatly resented. He was murdered by a mob in 1841, and this account of his journey to and time in the Afghan capital was published posthumously in 1842.
In the long and often disastrous history of British entanglement in Afghanistan, the name of Alexander Burnes (1805–41) deserves to be remembered. Aged sixteen, he went to India to take up a post in the army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country and to observe the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. (Burnes' 1834 account of this journey is also reissued in this series.) In 1836, he was sent to Kabul, and became involved in the British plan to replace Dost Muhammad Khan with Shah Shuja (which he personally thought a mistake). The British became a focus of increasing local discontent, and in November 1841 Burnes was murdered in Kabul by a mob. This account of his stay in the city was published posthumously in 1842.
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