James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Masters Theses The Graduate School Spring 2012 Nationalism in Afghanistan: Colonial knowledge, education, symbols, and the World Tour of Amanullah Khan, 1901-1929 Jawan Shir James Madison University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019 Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Shir, Jawan, "Nationalism in Afghanistan: Colonial knowledge, education, symbols, and the World Tour of Amanullah Khan, 1901-1929" (2012). Masters Theses. 324. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/324 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the The Graduate School at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Nationalism in Afghanistan: Colonial Knowledge, Education, Symbols, and the World Tour of Amanullah Khan, 1901-1929 Jawan Shir A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the degree of Master of Arts History May 2012 Dedication To Afghanistan’s mountains, rivers, trees, and animals; whose existence is more Afghan, whatever ‘Afghan’ means, and more human than nationalism ii Acknowledgements I owe thanks and appreciation to a number of people that provided me helpful and critical support in making this thesis possible. I am grateful for the support and questions of the History Department faculty members and my graduate classmate colleagues. I owe much, intellectually and professionally, to my thesis director, Professor Shah Mahmoud Hanifi. Without Professor Hanifi, I would have never written this thesis (and perhaps would have never tried to know about its subject).