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050	0	0	_aDS363. _bC677 1839
245	0	0	_aCorrespondence relating to Persia and Affghanistan.
260			_aLondon : _bJ. Harrison & Son, _c1839.
300			_axi, 524 pages ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“Correspondence Relating to Persia and Affghanistan is a compilation of documents concerning British policy toward these two countries, published in London at the time of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42). The volume includes, for example, dispatches sent to the British foreign secretary, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), by British diplomats in Saint Petersburg and Teheran; Palmerston’s replies; the texts of treaties concluded by the East India Company with the shah of Persia, the amirs of Sind, and other parties; correspondence between Dost Mohammad Khan (1793‒1863), ruler of Afghanistan, and the governor-general of India; and reports concerning Afghanistan by Sir Alexander Burnes, political officer in India and Afghanistan, to Governor-General of India Lord Auckland. One section of the book documents the expedition of Shah Shuja (1785–1842), ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809, into Afghanistan in 1833–34 and his attempt to reclaim the throne in collaboration with Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of the Punjab. Shah Shuja was defeated by Afghan forces at Kandahar under Dost Mohammad Khan. The First Anglo-Afghan War began four years later, when the British sent an Anglo-Indian army into Afghanistan in order to install Shah Shuja, who they perceived as more sympathetic to their interests than Dost Mohammad Khan, as ruler of the country. The documents provide a detailed look at the secret diplomacy that preceded the First Anglo-Afghan War”—copied from website.
500			_aThe Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
504			_6Includes bibliographical references.
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650		0	_aAfghan Wars.
650		0	_aEastern question (Central Asia).
651		0	_aGreat Britain – Foreign relations – Afghanistan.
651		0	_aAfghanistan – Foreign relations – Great Britain.
651		0	_aGreat Britain – Foreign relations – Iran.
651		0	_aIran – Foreign relations – Great Britain.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_c677_1839 _zScanned for ACKU.
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