Asian Trips :: Kabul Under Siege: An Inside Account of the 1929 Uprising (Princeton Series on the Middle East)

Asian Trips - Kabul Under Siege: An Inside Account of the 1929 Uprising (Princeton Series on the Middle East)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 958.1
EAN: 9781558761551
ISBN: 1558761551
Label: Markus Wiener Pub
Manufacturer: Markus Wiener Pub
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: 1999-02
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
Studio: Markus Wiener Pub

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In January 1929, the reigning monarch of Afghanistan, Amir Aman Allah Khan, was driven from his capital by a former soldier turned outlaw. The uprising was a response to the ruler's attempts to modernize the tribal culture of Afghanistan. Kabul, then as now, was of considerable symbolic importance, and its loss sounded the death knell to the king's power and his reforms, much as the defeat of the Soviet-backed government in 1993 spelled the end of Marxist power in Afghanistan as well as its efforts at reforming this unyieldingly tribal society. Until now, there has been no account of the nine-month rule of the outlaw-king, Habib Allah, nicknamed "Son of the Watercarrier," from inside the capital. During the occupation, Fayz Muhammad, a Kabul resident and well-known historian who had already published an authoritative history of the country, and had chronicled the reigns of Aman Allah and his immediate predecessor, kept a detailed journal, which forms the basis of this book. This account of the occupiers' extortion, confiscation, and the resulting hardships, as well as the actions of those who resisted, is a timely reminder of the drama being played out in Afghanistan today.

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