Download or read book Ahmad Shah Abdali written by Ishtiaq Hussain Azhar and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ahmad Shah Durrani written by Ganda Singh and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah written by Idries Shah and published by Hoopoe Books. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some two hundred and fifty years ago the great King Ahmad Shah Durrani ruled Afghanistan. His magnificent empire extended from eastern Iran to northern India, and from the Amu Darya to the Indian Ocean. Known to his people as Ahmad Shah Baba (Ahmad Shah, our father), the king was an outstanding general and a just ruler. But he was vexed with troubles and needed to find someone with the right qualities to help him - but how?
Download or read book Marathas And Ahmad Shah Abdali written by Om Prakash and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marathas Are The Inhabitants Of Maharashtra, A Region Roughly Marked By A Triangle With The Coastline Between Daman And Goa As Its Base And Nagpur As Its Apex. Originally Belonging To The Peasantry Stock, They Recruited Themselves In The Armies Of Muslim Kings Of The South. It Was Their National Hero Shivaji Who Converted Them Into A Military Nation. Even During Aurangzeb S Reign The Marathas Had Successfully Checked The Expansion Of The Mughal Rule In Their Own Country. In 1674 Shivaji Assumed The Title Of Raja. He Died In 1680.The Saga Of Marathas Is Portrayed In This Book In Pros And Cons. Major Topics Like The Marathas In North India, Jats, Rohillas And Avadh, Nadir Shah And Ahmad Shah Durrani, Maratha Conquest Of The Punjab, Maratha-Najib Strife, Maratha-Durrani Conflict, Marathas Diplomacy, Arrival Of Combatants At Panipat, The Two Armies: Their Arms And The Equipment, The Pre-Battle Sirmishes, Arrangement Of The Two Armies, The Battle, Causes Of The Marathas Defeat, Consequences Of The Battle, The Battle And Its Assessment Etc. Given Elaborate Treatment Herein Will Prove Of Utmost Use To All Concerned.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah written by Palwasha Bazger Salam and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some two hundred and fifty years ago the great King Ahmad Shah Durrani ruled Afghanistan. His magnificent empire extended from eastern Iran to northern India, and from the Amu Darya to the Indian Ocean. Known to his people as Ahmad Shah Baba (Ahmad Shah, our father), the king was an outstanding general and a just ruler. But he was vexed with troubles and needed to find someone with the right qualities to help him -- but how? Among other things the story provides a framework through which young readers can consider and discuss the qualities needed for a useful and happy life. Additional pages include a short biography of Ahmad Shah, a map of the Durrani Empire, and suggested discussion points.
Download or read book Ahmad Shah Abdali s Ninth Invasion and Its Repercussion on East India Company written by Birendra Varma and published by . This book was released on 1969* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah written by Palwasha Bazger Salam and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great King Ahmad Shah Durrani ruled Afghanistan and an empire stretching from Iran in the North to the Indian Ocean. Known as just, wise and loved by his people - yet he was troubled. He needed to find someone to help - but how?
Download or read book Afghan Napoleon written by Sandy Gall and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate. Many groups were caught up in fighting each other and competing for Western arms. The exception were those commanded by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the military strategist and political operator who solidified the resistance and undermined the Russian occupation, leading resistance members to a series of defensive victories. Sandy Gall followed Massoud during Soviet incursions and reported on the war in Afghanistan, and he draws on this first-hand experience in his biography of this charismatic guerrilla commander. Afghan Napoleon includes excerpts from the surviving volumes of Massoud’s prolific diaries—many translated into English for the first time—which detail crucial moments in his personal life and during his time in the resistance. Born into a liberalizing Afghanistan in the 1960s, Massoud ardently opposed communism, and he rose to prominence by coordinating the defense of the Panjsher Valley against Soviet offensives. Despite being under-equipped and outnumbered, he orchestrated a series of victories over the Russians. Massoud’s assassination in 2001, just two days before the attack on the Twin Towers, is believed to have been ordered by Osama bin Laden. Despite the ultimate frustration of Massoud’s attempts to build political consensus, he is recognized today as a national hero.
Download or read book The Ancient Supremacy written by Jonathan Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a chronological account of the struggle between the Afghan Amirs of Kabul and the Manghit Dynasty of Bukhara for Balkh province (wilayat) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing extensively on India Office Records, Persian and native oral sources, the book provides a unique insight into an important, but little-studied Central Asian region. Structured around the history of Maimana's Mingid dynasty, the book details the various military campaigns, whilst also examining critically Britain and Russia's role in the 'Afghanisation' of Balkh during the period of the 'Great Game'. The work is especially significant to historians since it questions conventional perceptions of Central Asia during the era of European imperialism. It examines too Balkh's social and economic situation. It includes numerous maps, charts, photographs and dynastic charts.
Download or read book The History of the Sikhs from the Origin of the Nation to the Batles of the Sutlej written by Joseph Davey Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Indian Wazir Imad ul Mulk 1756 7 written by William Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Sardar Ahmed Shah Jan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan: Saddozai Kings & Viziers 1747-1842 introduces an Afghan tribe led by its charismatic leader, Ahmed Shah Abdali, that transformed a band of warring Afghan tribes into the country that we know today as Afghanistan.After the Ottoman empire, Afghanistan became the second largest empire of the Muslim world. However, after its formation the subsequent Saddozai kings, in less than a century, squandered away a whole empire to be banished forever from Afghanistan in 1842. The second man to pick up the fallen standard and lead the way was Vizier Usman Khan who, along with his three sons, was knighted for gallantly fighting alongside the British. In this man, the spirit of the First Leader Ahmed Shah Abdali was revived, proving that the Saddozai were tenacious warriors to be admired and respected.This book is a fascinating, in-depth study into not only the history of Afghanistan, but into why in more recent years it has reverted to tribal warfare and defies international efforts to be welded together into a modern nation state.
Download or read book Modern history of Afghanistan from the time of Ahmad Shah Abdali to now written by Akbar Ǧān Ārzūmand and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Azim mujahid Ahmad Shah Abdali written by Agha Qaisar Ali and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Ali Ahmad Jalali and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and West Asia, over some 2,500 years. This is the first comprehensive study in any language published on the millennia-long competition for domination and influence in one of the key regions of the Eurasian continent. Jalali’s work covers some of the most important events and figures in world military history, including the armies commanded by Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, the Muslim conquerors, Chinggis Khan, Tamerlane, and Babur. Afghanistan was the site of their campaigns and the numerous military conquests that facilitated exchange of military culture and technology that influenced military developments far beyond the region. An enduring theme throughout Afghanistan is the strong influence of the geography and the often extreme nature of the local terrain. Invaders mostly failed because the locals outmaneuvered them in an unforgiving environment. Important segments include Alexander the Great, remembered to this day as a great victor, though not a grand builder; the rise of Islam in the early seventh century in the Arabian Peninsula and the monumental and enduring shift in the social and political map of the world brought by its conquering armies; the medieval Islamic era, when the constant rise and fall of ruling dynasties and the prevalence of an unstable security environment reinforced localism in political, social, and military life; the centuries-long impact of the destruction caused by Chinggis Khan’s thirteenth century; early eighteenth century, when the Afghans achieved a remarkable military victory with extremely limited means leading to the downfall of the Persian Safavid dynasty; and the Battle of Panipat (1761), where Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Abdali decisively routed the Hindu confederacy under Maratha leadership, widely considered as one of the decisive battles of the world. It was in this period when the Afghans founded their modern state and a vast empire under Ahmad Shah Durrani, which shaped the environment for the arrival of the European powers and the Great Game.
Download or read book Koh i Noor written by William Dalrymple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.
