Afghanistan and the Search for Unity

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1. In 1908, at the Society's Annual Dinner.

2. Sir Percy Sykes, A History of Afghanistan, London, 1940, vol. II, p. 118.

3. Mountstuart Elphinstone, An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India, London, 1815, pp. 543–4.

4. Sir Alexander Burns, Cabool, London, 1842, p. 379.

5. For the structure of the legislature under Abdur Rahman Khan, see Vartan Gregorian, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, p. 134. For a broader account of his program of government, see ibid. pp. 129–62.

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Bijan Omrani

Bijan Omrani is a writer and broadcaster. He is the co-author of guides to Afghanistan and Iran and is at present editing a new guide to Tajikstan and the Pamirs as well as a new book on Nomadism and the history of the Russian state. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Asian Affairs.