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70
Private Collection, The Mss Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 111, entry for 14 September 1842.
71
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 141, The Thirty-Fifth Event, p. 147, The fate of Princes Shahpur and Timur.
72
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj al-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 284.
73
Low
, The Journal and Correspondence of Augustus Abbott
, p. 349. For Fatteh Jang’s alleged penchant for homosexual rape, see Yapp,
Strategies
,
p. 318.
74
BL, OIOC, ESL 90: no. 30 of no. 52 of 19 November 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/171), Pollock to Maddock, 21 October 1842.
75
Greenwood,
Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Afghanistan under General Pollock
, p. 212.
76
Ibid., p. 213.
77
Ibid., p. 222.
78
Ibid., pp. 213–14.
79
Ibid., p. 223.
80
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 273.
81
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. I, p. 190.
82
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, pp. 275–6.
83
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 191.
84
National Army Museum, NAM 9007–77, Ensign Greville G. Chetwynd Stapylton’s Journal, entry for 21 September 1842.
85
Rattray,
The Costumes of the Various Tribes
, p. 16.
86
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, pp. 142, 152.
87
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 116, entry for 21 September 1842.
88
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. I, p. 194.
89
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 88.
90
Joseph Pierre Ferrier,
A History of the Afghans
, London, 1858, p. 376.
91
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, pp. 143–9.
92
Sultan Mohammad Khan Durrani,
Tarikh-i-Sultani
,
p. 280.
93
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
,
pp. 244–69, The second coming of the English to Kabul and Ghazni.
94
Hopkins,
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
, p. 69.
95
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, p. 151.
96
Greenwood,
Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Afghanistan under General Pollock
, p. 243.
97
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 3 May 1843, no. 20, A. Abbott to Ellenborough, 29 March 1843.
98
Low,
The Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock
,                p. 415.
99
Stocqueler,
The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott
, vol. II,                p. 163.
100
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 490.
101
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 254–69, The return of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan to Kabul.
102
Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’,
p. 483.
103
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. I, p. 194.
104
Ibid., vol. II, p. 30.
105
Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, pp. 321, 325.
106
Karim,
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar
, pp. 82–4; Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, p. 152.
107
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 149, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The murder of the Shah.
108
Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, p. 326.
109
The text of the Simla Proclamation is given in full in Norris,
First Afghan War
, pp. 451–2.
110
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 254–69, The return of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan to Kabul.
111
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, p. 154.
112
Ibid., p. 155.
113
Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, p. 344.
114
BL, OIOC, BSL (1) 27,873, Governor General to Secret Committee 48/, 19 October 1842.
115
Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, p. 352.
116
Allen,
Soldier Sahibs
, pp. 53–5.
117
I have written at length about John Nicholson’s psychopathic behaviour in 1857 in my
The Last Mughal: The End of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
, London, 2006.
118
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, p. 158.
119
Allen,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, p. 359.
120
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, p. 158.
121
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. I, p. 198.
122
Ibid.
123
Ibid., p. 194.
124
BL, OIOC, HM/434, Nicholls Papers, Nicholls’s Journal, vol. 40, 7 January 1843. See also Pottinger,
The Afghan Connection
, pp. xi-xii.
125
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 244–69, The second coming of the English to Kabul.
126
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 12.
127
Royal Geographical Society, Rawlinson Papers, HC4, Masson Diary, entry for 1 December 1839.
128
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur E162, letter 4.
129
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. I, p. 199.
130
Pottinger and Macrory,
The Ten-Rupee Jezail
, p. 167.
131
Eden,
Up the Country
,
p. xix.
132
The Times
, 25 October 1844.
133
See Michael Fisher’s excellent essay ‘Mohan Lal Kashmiri (1812–77)’, in Margrit Pernau (ed.),
The Delhi College
, pp. 231–66. See also Gupta,
Panjab, Central Asia and the First Afghan War.
The book has an admiring introduction by the young Jawaharlal Nehru.
134
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 29 March 1843, no. 91, From the Envoy to the Court of Lahore, Ambala, 4 March 1843.
135
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 23 March 1843, no. 539, From Colonel Richmond, Camp Rooper, 18 December 1843.
136
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. II, pp. 27, 29.
137
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 23 March 1843, no. 539, From Colonel Richmond, Camp Rooper, 18 December 1843.
138
Aziz ud-Din Popalzai,
Durrat uz-Zaman
, Kabul, 1959, ch. The Private Life of Zaman Shah from His Dethronement till His Death.
139
Robert Warburton,
Eighteen Years in the Khyber 1879–1898
, London, 1900, p. 8.

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