# Silk Road Books & Photos

## First Anglo Afghan War Auckland's folly – An expedition in Regime Change (Page 2 of 7)

#### 1 | #### Ahmad Mohiuddin | #### Saiyid Ahmad Shahid
Saiyid Ahmad Shahid established a resistance base in Swat Northern Pakistan to combat Ranjit Singh and Sikh power in the Frontier during the Nineteenth Century. The Saiyid captured Peshawar only to return it to the former Durrani ruler who had been in league with the Sikhs. The Sikhs were abducting Pashtun women, which resulted as always in a wave of resistance from Pashtun society against these invaders from India. Unfortunately The Durrani ruler of Peshawar also betrayed a plan to organize a revolt in the fort at Attock by Muslim troops in the Sikh army. Attock controls access to the Frontier Province. The Saiyid is presented as a formidable military opponent, but lacking the political savy of his opponents, which ultimately results in his opponents driving a wedge between the Saiyid, an Indian and his Pashtun hosts in the Swat valley, based on ethnic differences. This biography is written by an Indian scholar using Urdu and Persian primary sources. First Edition in dust wrapper Rare copy of a hard to find work. £95
#### 2 | #### Atkinson, James | #### The Expedition into Afghanistan
Atkinson was the surgeon in the army of the Indus.Mint paperback.REPRINT. £16
#### 3 | #### Burnes, Alexander | #### Cabool : A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the years 1836, 37 and 38
Reprint 1986 Karachi. Good in dw pp317. £20
#### 4 | #### Dupree, Louis | #### First Anglo Afghan War Folklore and History
This is an account of a trip that Dupree took tracing the journey by the retreating British Army during the Winter of 1841. Dupree similarly set out on his journey in the month of January 1963. He visited villages along the route collecting accounts of the battles fought against the retreating British. Dupree found that oral Afghan accounts largely matched the version of events recorded by historians in relation to the retreat from Kabul. Hardbound photocopy in black cloth from Historical and cultural quarterly of Afghanistan 1974. £35
#### 5 | #### Dupree, Louis | #### First Anglo Afghan War Folklore and History
As directly above but in half leather with marble hardback covers. £50
#### 6 | #### Dupree, Louis | #### Afghan and British Military Tactics in the First Anglo Afghan War
Seven pages and one map. Photocopy 1977 Army Quarterly Review. £5
#### 7 | #### Elphinstone, Mountstuart | #### An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
1992 Indus Publications, Karachi, Pakistan. 2 volume edition in hardback with gilt writing on spine. Map in rear pocket. As new. Aged 30, he travelled from Delhi to the Afghan monarch Shah Shuja’s winter capital, Peshawar, in 1809; he collected valuable information about the tribes of the Afghans, and his book remains one of the best accounts. His actual travelogue, presented in the introduction, contains descriptions of what was then Afghan territory and is now in Pakistan. £45
#### 8 | #### Fredericks Pierce G | #### Sepoy and the Cossack
WH Allen 1973 279 pages. Hardback in dustwrapper. £20
#### 9 | #### Fletcher, Arnold | #### Afghanistan Highway of Conquest
Fletcher traces the history of the Afghan nation from its beginning in 1747 to the present. His primary focus is on the political history – more specifically on the internal development of Afghanistan and how it was influenced by such outside forces as British India and Czarist Russia. Fletcher presents a sympathetic account of Afghan resistance during the Anglo Afghan wars and illustrates well how high handed British officials could behave. For example he gives the example of an incident where a Political Officer orders the wiping out of a village community because the official believed that the inhabitants had looked at him with disrespect. First edition 1965 in dw with ex libris label of Michael Gillett formerly a British Ambassador to Afghanistan as well as a writer on Afghanistan. £55
#### 10 | #### Ghose Dilip Kumar | #### England and Afghanistan A Phase in their relations
An analysis of Britain's Forward Policy, which was a doctoral thesis submitted to Calcutta University. Paperback 229 pages. Calcutta The World Press Private Limited 1960 good condition. £30
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