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Note on Transliteration | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. viii |
List of Maps | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Afghanistan imagined | p. 1 |
Situating Afghanistan | p. 2 |
The argument | p. 6 |
The Power of Colonial Knowledge | p. 11 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
British imaginings | p. 13 |
Elphinstone's legacy | p. 23 |
Conclusion | p. 32 |
The Myth of the 'Great Game' | p. 34 |
Introduction | p. 34 |
The 'Great Game' | p. 35 |
The Indus Scheme | p. 47 |
British policy west of the Indus | p. 50 |
Conclusion | p. 59 |
Anglo-Sikh Relations and South Asian Warfare | p. 61 |
Introduction | p. 61 |
The failure of British strategy | p. 62 |
The Punjab and the 'military labour market' | p. 70 |
The Afghan-Sikh conflict | p. 75 |
Conclusion | p. 78 |
Ontology of the Afghan Political Community | p. 82 |
Introduction | p. 82 |
The contours of Afghanistan's social ecology | p. 84 |
A tribal kingdom: The evolution of the Afghan proto-state | p. 87 |
Afghanistan's plundering polity model | p. 90 |
Afghanistan's Islamic moral landscape | p. 98 |
'Royalism' in an egalitarian society | p. 102 |
Conclusion | p. 107 |
Camels, Caravans and Corridor Cities: The Afghan Economy | p. 110 |
Introduction | p. 110 |
The Afghan transit economy | p. 113 |
Exogenous factors affecting the Afghan economy | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 133 |
The Afghan Trade Corridor | p. 136 |
Introduction | p. 136 |
Typology of caravan corridor cities | p. 137 |
Corridor cities of Central Asian caravan commerce | p. 139 |
Conclusion | p. 159 |
Conclusion: The 'Failure' of the Afghan Political Project | p. 163 |
The creation of 'Afghanistan' | p. 163 |
The argument revisited | p. 165 |
Implications | p. 167 |
The colonial legacy | p. 170 |
Epilogue | p. 174 |
Notes | p. 177 |
Glossary of Foreign Terms | p. 229 |
Unpublished Sources | p. 231 |
Bibliography | p. 234 |
Index | p. 250 |
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