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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 27 CHAPTER III. COMMUNICATIONS WITH SHERE ALI, AND THE UMBALLA CONFERENCE. It will have been observed that the 9th, 10th, and llth paragraphs of the last-quoted despatch of the Government of India indicate, not any change of policy, but an opinion that some further steps, quite consistent with the policy of the previous fourteen years, might, under changed circumstances, be usefully taken. Keep a firm, an open, tone with the Russians, they say, and tell them they cannot be permitted to interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan. As for Shere Ali, he has now established himself with reasonable certainty, and there is now a Government in Afghanistan stable enough to be dealt with. Let us therefore assist him with some money and munitions of war, and let us encourage personal intercourse with him. These views led to the Umballa Conference (vide A., pp. 84-88). In 1868, Shere Ali asked for some further assistance on the ground that his rivals had, when in power, anticipated the revenues of the country; and this was conceded to him, the total gifts amounting to 120, OOOL, and some thousands of stands of arms. On January 9, 1869, Lord Lawrence wrote to Shere Ali a farewell letter, in which he again states his policy. From the Viceroy and Governor-General of India to His Highness the Ameer Shere Ali Khan of Gabul. I have received and carefully perused your Highness's letter, dated Shaban 12, 1285, and addressed to me. I have also read your letter to his Honour the Lientenant- Governor of the Punjab of the same date. Prom an attentive perusal of these papers, as well as from a constant and careful observation of all the various events which have taken place in Afghanistan during the past few years, I am well acquaiubed with your Highness's present position and futu...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217820707
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217820700
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr

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