An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India : (Record no. 41541)

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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number DS352.
Item number E576 1815
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Personal name Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859.
245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India :
Remainder of title comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy /
Statement of responsibility, etc by the Mountstuart Elphinstone.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1815.
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Extent viii, xxi, 675 :
Other physical details color illustrations, color map ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859) was an administrator with the East India Company who in 1808 was sent by the British Indian authorities on a mission to Afghanistan for the purpose of concluding an agreement with the Afghan ruler, Shah Shuja Durrani. Suspicious of British intentions and engaged in a domestic power struggle, Shah Shuja refused to allow Elphinstone and his party to proceed beyond Peshawar (in present-day Pakistan), which was then part of the Durrani Empire. Elphinstone remained in Peshawar for several months, where he met with Shah Shuja and gathered information about Afghanistan from a variety of sources, including merchants, travelers, and Islamic teachers. The result was a detailed report to the East India Company, which Elphinstone later expanded into An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India, published in 1815. The book is arranged logically and systematically. Following an introduction describing the mission of 1808‒9, it contains books on geography; the inhabitants of Afghanistan and their customs and way of life; the Afghan tribes; the provinces; and the royal government of Kabul. Appendices cover the history of the kingdom from the founding of the Durrani monarchy; the narrative of a Mr. Durie, a half-English, half-Indian compounder of medicines, of his journey across Afghanistan; an account of neighboring countries, including Kafiristan (a region in eastern Afghanistan conquered in 1896, present-day Nuristan Province); an extract from the memoir of Lieutenant Macartney, the surveyor in Elphinstone’s party who drew up a detailed map of Afghanistan; and a vocabulary of Pushto words. The book includes colored plates that portray Afghans of different ethnic groups and a very large fold-out map. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul became a standard work, relied upon for decades by the British and other Europeans as a source of information about Afghanistan. Elphinstone went on to serve in a variety of posts in British India and to write other books, including History of India: The Hindu and Mohametan Periods (1841)”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Linkage includes bibliographical references.
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Language note English
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Geographic name Afghanistan – History.
Geographic name Afghanistan – Description and travel.
Geographic name Kabul (Afghanistan : Province) – History.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_e576_1815 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_e576_1815 </a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_ds352_e576_1815
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 21/01/2018   DS352.E576 1815 3ACKU000504992 21/01/2018 21/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.