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79
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 149, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The murder of the Shah.
80
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 200.

Chapter 10: A War for No Wise Purpose

 
1
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, pp. 158–9.
 
2
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 209.
 
3
Ibid., p. 210.
 
4
Quoted in Stewart,
Crimson Snow
, p. 179.
 
5
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, pp. 210–11.
 
6
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, p. 162.
 
7
Charles Rathbone Low,
The Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock
, London, 1873, p. 276.
 
8
Lieutenant John Greenwood,
Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Afghanistan under General Pollock
, London, 1844, p. 169.
 
9
Charles Rathbone Low,
The Journal and Correspondence of Augustus Abbott
, London, 1879, p. 315.
10
Ibid., p. 306.
11
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur F89/54, Broadfoot to Lord Elphinstone, 26 April 1842.
12
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. II, p. 35.
13
Quoted by Hopkirk,
The Great Game
,
p. 273.
14
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. II, p. 57.
15
Low
, The Journal and Correspondence of Augustus Abbott
, p. 320.
16
Ibid., p. 317.
17
Ibid., pp. 318–19.
18
Greenwood,
Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign
, pp. 173–4.
19
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 215.
20
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 185.
21
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 203.
22
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 187.
23
Ibid., p. 197.
24
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 211.
25
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur F89/54, Broadfoot to Lord Elphinstone, 26 April 1842.
26
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 190.
27
Ibid., p. 194.
28
Gupta,
Panjab, Central Asia and the First Afghan War
,
pp. 198–9.
29
BL, OIOC, ESL 86: no. 30 of no. 14 of 17 May 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/167), Lal to MacGregor, 10 April 1842.
30
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, pp. 217, 254.
31
Kaye,
History of the War in Afghanistan
, vol. III, pp. 453–5.
32
Noelle,
State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
,
p. 53.
33
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, December 1842, no. 480–82, Mohan Lal’s Memorandum of 29 June
enclosed with a letter from General Pollock, Commanding in Afghanistan, to Maddock, Secretary to the Governor General, dated Jelalabad, 10 July 1842.
34
Ibid.
35
Barfield,
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
, pp. 125–6.
36
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj al-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 284.
37
Quoted in Allen,
Soldier Sahibs
, p. 47.
38
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. II,pp. 316–17.
39
Gupta,
Panjab, Central Asia and the First Afghan War
, p. 186.
40
Ibid., p. 187.
41
Fisher, ‘Mohan Lal Kashmiri (1812–77)’, p. 249.
42
Gupta,
Panjab, Central Asia and the First Afghan War
, p. 189. Mohan Lal’s conversion to Islam is recorded in the
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
,
vol. I, p. 282:
‘An Indian munshi disobeyed this order by delivering small quantities of powder to the Bala Hisar. When it was discovered, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan had the man jailed. After his imprisonment, the Indian converted to Islam and was immediately freed’. Mohan Lal had long used a Shia alias and his conversion may have been part of a much longer game of double identity that he had been playing for several years.
43
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 28 of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR L/PS/5/169), Pollock to Maddock, 11 July 1842.
44
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. II,pp. 79–84, 109–10.
45
Ibid., p. 43.
46
The Rev. I. N. Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, London, 1843, p. 216.
47
Ibid., p. 217.
48
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 209.
49
Greenwood,
Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Afghanistan under General Pollock
, pp. 191–2.
50
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 221.
51
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, p. 169.
52
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, p. 136.
53
Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, pp. 241–2.
54
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur 9057.aaa.14, ‘Nott’s Brigade in Afghanistan’, Bombay, 1880, p. 81.
55
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. II, p. 126.
56
Romila Thapar,
Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History
,
New Delhi, 2004, pp. 174–5.
57
Yapp,
Strategies
, p. 443.
58
Rawlinson,
A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
, p. 132.
59
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
,
pp. 244–69, The second coming of the English to Kabul and Ghazni.
60
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 36 of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (L/PS/5/169), Pollock to Maddock, 14 July 1842.
61
Josiah Harlan,
Central Asia: Personal Narrative of General Josiah Harlan, 1823–41
, ed. Frank E. Ross, London, 1939, p. 228.
62
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 210.
63
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine,
vol. I, p. 187.
64
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 260.
65
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 189.
66
Private Collection, The Mss Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 98, entry for 29 August 1842.
67
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 220.
68
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 348–54, The march to Bamiyan to release the prisoners.
69
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 272.
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