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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11805-8 - Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808–1878 Martin J . Bayly Index More information Index Note: Afghan names from the nineteenth century have been entered in direct form, so Dost Muhammad Khan appears under D, Abdur Rahman Khan under A, etc. Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia 139 agnostic constructivism 30–1, 269–70, Abbott, James 54, 295–301 272 Abbott, Major 232 Ahmed, Manan 6 Abdur Rahman Khan 18, 239, Ahmed Shah 67 241, 277 Akbar Khan see Muhammad Akbar Aberdeen, Lord 128, 195–6 Khan Account of the Kingdom of Caubul Alexander, Gardner 295–301 (Elphinstone) 72–3, 77–8, 83, 103 Alexander the Great 54–5 Achikzai tribe 57, 86 Allard, Jean Francois 295–301 Afghan state Amin Khan see Muhammad Amin civilized/uncivilized distinction Khan 181–2, 193–4, 202–3, 211, 253–5, Anderson, Jon 45 274–5 Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1809) 76–7 concept 74–6 Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1855) 214–15, conflicting viability advice 170–1 219, 221 contested status 272–3 Anglo-Persian Treaty (1809) 76, 155 emergent idea of 113–14 Anglo-Persian Treaty (1814) 155 fragmented polity 163–4 Anglo-Persian Treaty (1841) 194–5, heterogeneity 272 197 legibility 37–8, 47, 92, 147, 148, 152, Anglo-Russian Agreement (1873) 163, 208–9 245–6, 255–6 as Persia/Russian buffer 120–1 Ansorge, Joseph Teboho 287 rational state 229–30, 270 army state simplification 148–9 administrative reforms 235–6 Afghanistan Army of the Indus 184 graveyard of empires 14–15 commanders 88–9 perceived lawlessness 39, 58–9 European deserters 104–5 perceived violence 23, 56–7, 191–4 Indian army 232 quasi-colonial status 3–4, 48, 277 in Kandahar 222–3 viewed as security threat 3 Punjab Field Force 231 Afghans and rail transport 250 character 98–9 troops 89–90 pejorative representations 227–8 Auckland, Lord Afzul Khan see Muhammad Afzul Khan Governor-General 122–3, 133 Agamben, Giorgio 39 minute on ‘crisis in Afghan affairs’ Agnew, John 6 167–8 325 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11805-8 - Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808–1878 Martin J . Bayly Index More information 326 Index Auckland, Lord (cont.) ambition 15–16, 70–1 and Persian siege of Herat 153–4, classical interests 54, 56 155–7 communication difficulties 156 and Peshawar 161 death 93, 185 reputation 15–16 deputy British envoy in Kabul 184–5 and restoration of Shah Shuja and Dost Muhammad 149–50, 169–70, 171 158–9 Simla deliberations 165–6 Elphinstone’sinfluence 63, 70 Simla Manifesto 172–3 favours unitary Afghan polity 170 and trade 136 historical revisionism 189 Avitabile, Paulo Di 295–301 information sources 64 Ayub Khan 95–6, 99–100 intelligence on Russia 131 Azim Khan see Muhammad Azim Khan and Kandahar 158 local dress 57 Babur 55–6 and Masson 71, 93, 105–6, 111 Bamiyan 110 mission to Kabul 161–2, 167 Barakzai tribe 68, 99, 112, 150–1 policy advice 103–4 Barfield, Thomas 14, 17, 112, 113 public recognition 93 Barkawi, Tarak 26, 287 and Qizilbash (Persian faction) Bayly, Chris 47 162–3 Bell, Gertrude 278 recommends restoration of Shah Bellew, Henry W. 221–5, 227–8, 249, Shuja 168–70, 171 302–4 Russian detention of Khivan Bentinck, William, Lord 124, 138 merchants 131–2 Benton, Lauren 229, 276 surveying expeditions 71, 92–3, 137, Bible, explorers’ references 55 160 Bouténieff, Colonel 199–200 trading and governance observations Branch, Jordan 27 96–9, 135–7 Britain travelogue approach 59–60 Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1809) 76–7 writings 92–4 Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1855) 214–15, Buzan, Barry 229 219, 221 incompetent imperial interventions Campbell, William 295–301 4–5 Canning, Lord 220–1 non-interventionist policy 23, caravan (kafila) routes 65, 135–6 139–40, 142, 144–5, 203, 207, Caroe, Olaf 208, 233 225 Carron (possible mercenary) 295–301 and Persia 155, 194–6, 197 Central Asia 196, 197–9, 257 and Russia 40, 179, 275 Chattar Singh 206 shared Russian outlook 196–203 civil service reform 234–5 stereotypical view of Afghanistan 4, civil war 227, 238–42 8–9 civilization, degrees of 181–2, 193–4, war with Persia 219 202–3, 211, 253–5, 274–5 British explorers see European closure, policy formation 2–3, 22, 38, explorers 175, 270 Brydon, Dr William 186–7 Coetzee, J.M., Waiting for the Burnes, Alexander 295–301 Barbarians 7 Afghan perceived lawlessness 59 Cohn, Bernard 2–3, 49–51, 69–70, Afghan political history 94–6 281–2 agent of Governor-General 122–3 colonial knowledge 32–7 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11805-8 - Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808–1878 Martin J . Bayly Index More information Index 327 beyond state needs 270–1 contact zone 56, 123–4, 147, 276–7 constitutive effects of 36–7 Cotton, Sir Sydney 209, 233–4 corpus 33, 45, 73–4, 227, 268, Court, Claude August 295–301 270–1 Cowper-Coles, Sir Sherard 288 dialogue between centre and periphery 268–9 Dalby, Simon 6 early challenges 52 Darwin, Charles, On the Origin of epistemic insurgency 36 Species 254 folktales and myth 66–7 De Lacy Evans, Colonel 127–8 friction 35 Dost Muhammad Khan and genealogical histories 66 ascendency 144–6 gossip and hearsay 247 Burnes’ negotiations 93 information not knowledge 137–8 Burnes’ preference for 103, 111–12 intelligence confusion 205–7 and Chattar Singh 206 investigative modalities 2–3, 49–51, consolidation of power 149–50, 115, 281–2 204–5, 214, 215 and local elites 65–6 crowned Amir 145–6 local informants 51, 64–6, 107, 246 de facto rule of Kandahar 216 military 224 death 226 newswriter system 106–7, 206, death rumours 221 217–18 failure of Burnes’ mission 167 pejorative representations 227–8 jihad against Sikhs 145–6 and policy formation 34, 37–8 leadership style 101–2 political sources 125–6 legitimacy as rule 121 post-First Afghan War 187–9, 204 limited authority 100–1, 208–9 preoccupation with espionage and Peshawar 142, 144, 159–62 activities 114–15 and Ranjit Singh 12 and professional institutions reclaims the throne 203 60, 268 revenues 146 quasi-causal representations 23–4, rise to power 67 38 Shah Shuja’s challenge 140–1, 143, and religious leaders 65, 67 144, 146 and the state 148–9 surrender 184 vakil official envoys 215–16, 217, takes Jalalabad 205–6 239, 247–8 takes Kabul 96 see also European explorers; political and trade 136 intelligence treaty with Britain 214–15, Colvin, John 123, 165 219, 221 commerce see trade tribal opposition 107, 108 communications technology 183, Dotterwich (mercenary) 295–301 229–30 Durand, Henry 15–16 Conolly, Arthur 295–301 Durrani federation 56–7, 78, 83–5, on Afghan character 59 108–9, 187–8 capture and killing 199, 200 and great game 11 East India Company (EIC) Herat as Persian 154 bureaucratization 81 Journey to the North of India 128 costs of First Anglo-Afghan War 16, on landscape 56 190–1 and Russia’s frontier states 198–9 declining role 124–5 constructivism 25, 30–1, 34–5, 269–70 limited contact with Afghanistan 72 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11805-8 - Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808–1878 Martin J . Bayly Index More information 328 Index East India Company (EIC) (cont.) observational/travel modality 49–51 and Shah Shuja 134–5, 144–5 official indifference towards 52–3 trading networks 96–7, 135 summary 295–301 Edwardes, Major 206 see also colonial knowledge Edwards, David 68 exception 3, 22, 38–41, 193–4, 211, Edwards, Herbert 233 227 Ellenborough, Lord 125–6, 127, 130, see also civilization, degrees of; civi- 151–2 lization standard; violent Ellis, Henry 123, 153–4 geography Elphinstone, Mountstuart 295–301 Account of the Kingdom of Caubul Fane, Sir Henry 171–2 72–3, 77–8, 83, 103 Fatih Jang 203 and Afghan governance 87–91 Ferrier, J.P. 57, 302–4 Afghan perceived lawlessness 58, 59 First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–42) Afghan territorial limits 78–9, 245 aftermath 38–9 and Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1809) causes 12, 190–1 76–7 costs 16, 190–1 early expeditions 52 early British success 184–5 episteme 21–2, 73 Masson’s criticism 111 influence 62–3, 70 mobilization order 171–2 intellectualism 60–1 perceived Russian threat 119, legacy 91–2 126–34, 173–4 observational studies 77–8 policy debates 173–5 parallels with Scotland 49, 56–7 summary 1 and sirrocco wind 66–7 violent resistance to British Scottish enlightenment principles administration 185–7 60–1, 70 Fitih Khan, Wazir 68, 94–5, 150–1 and Suleiman mountains 55 Flashman, Captain 6–9 and tribal societies 56–7, 81–7 Forster, George 295–301 empire Foucault, Michel 33 and communications technology 183, Fox, Liam 8 229–30 France, imperial threat 76 and imperial history 25–30, 271 Fraser-Tytler, W. K. 240 nostalgia for 287–8 Frere, Sir Henry Bartle territorial ambiguity 229, 276–7 civilized/uncivilized distinction 254, epistemic communities 32, 33, 255 40, 236 colonial experience 250–1 epistemic insurgency 36 and Merv 253 Erzurum Treaty (1847) 201 on native agents 247–8 European explorers Punjab frontier policy 237, 251 biases and prejudices 48–9 frontier policy Biblical interests 55 administrative streamlining 251 and caravan (kafila) routes 65, Anglo-Russian discussions 243, 135–6 245–6 celebrity status 56 British debates 237–8 classical interests 54–5, 105 civilizing effect 253–5 cultural world 51–9, 68–9 entrepreneurial political officers evocative language 56 232–4 intellectual world 59–62, 69 militarization 40 knowledge entrepreneurs 45, 72, 268 Russian viewpoint 238 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11805-8 - Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808–1878 Martin J .
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