Shah Shuja’s ‘Hidden History’ and its Implications for the Historiography of Afghanistan

The essay uses colonial archival materials from the Archives of the Punjab Province in Lahore to address the thirty-year period between the two reigns of the Durrani Afghan Monarch Shah Shuja (r. 1803-1809 and 1839-1842). Focusing on the 1809-1839 period, the first part of the essay deals with Mount...

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Main Author: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2012-05-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/3384