Connecting histories in Afghanistan : market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi.

“Includes bibliography”—(p. 243-255).

Contents: List of maps and figures—List of tables—Acknowledgments—Preface : querying the Kabul hypothesis—Part I : colonial market knowledge and commercial experimentation—Introduction : the historical location and conceptual framing of Afghanistan (p. 3)—1. Financing the Kabul produce (p. 35)—2. Contracting nomadic carriage for an aquatic agenda (p. 51)—3. Fiscal instability and state revenue reformulation during the first British occupation (p. 77)—Part II : the new outdated colonial political economy—4. Capital concentrations and coordinations : Peshawar subsidies and Kabul workshops (p. 97)—5. New state texts and old commercial flows (p. 121)—6. Mutual evasion between Afghanistan and the global marketplace (p. 153)—Conclusion : deflecting colonial canons and cannons : alternate routes to knowing Afghanistan (p. 165)—Appendix (p. 177)—Notes (p. 185)—Bibliography (p. 243)—Index (p. 257).