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Cabool - Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (Paperback)
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Cabool - Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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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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