Cover
Contents
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
Introduction
I. Afghanistan imagined
II. Situating Afghanistan
III. The argument
1 The Power of Colonial Knowledge
I. Introduction
II. British imaginings
III. Elphinstone's legacy
IV. Conclusion
2 The Myth of the 'Great Game'
I. Introduction
II. The 'Great Game'
III. The Indus Scheme
IV. British policy west of the Indus
V. Conclusion
3 Anglo-Sikh Relations and South Asian Warfare
I. Introduction
II. The failure of British strategy
III. The Punjab and the 'military labour market'
IV. The Afghan-Sikh conflict
V. Conclusion
4 Ontology of the Afghan Political Community
I. Introduction
II. The contours of Afghanistan's social ecology
III. A tribal kingdom: The evolution of the Afghan proto-state
IV. Afghanistan's plundering polity model
V. Afghanistan's Islamic moral landscape
VI. 'Royalism' in an egalitarian society
VII. Conclusion
5 Camels, Caravans and Corridor Cities: The Afghan Economy
I. Introduction
II. The Afghan transit economy
III. Exogenous factors affecting the Afghan economy
IV. Conclusion
6 The Afghan Trade Corridor
I. Introduction
II. Typology of caravan corridor cities
III. Corridor cities of Central Asian caravan commerce
IV. Conclusion
Conclusion: The 'Failure' of the Afghan Political Project
I. The creation of 'Afghanistan'
II. The argument revisited
III. Implications
IV. The colonial legacy
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Foreign Terms
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Bibliography
Index
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