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Connecting histories in Afghanistan: market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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Acknowledgments
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Querying the Kabul Hypothesis
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Introduction
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Chronology Overview and Content Summary
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Part I Colonial Market Knowledge and Commercial Experimentation
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Introduction: The Historical Location and Conceptual Framing of Afghanistan
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Old Market Time and New State Space from the Silk Road to the Indian Ocean
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Markets and Their Transformation: Mobility, Money, Machines, and Texts
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The Colonial Archives and Their Discontents
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Afghanistan, Colonialism, and Global Capitalism
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Chapter 1 Financing the Kabul Produce
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The Primary Commodities and Their Main Trajectories
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Durrani State Mints and Hindki Money Handlers
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Chapter 2 Contracting Nomadic Carriage for an Aquatic Agenda
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Sayyid Muhin Shah and the Validation of Market Profitability
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Kabul, the Indus River, and Global Trade
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Sarwar Khan Lohani, a Tribal Khan in Colonial Service
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Chapter 3 Fiscal Instability and State Revenue Reformulation during the First British Occupation
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Occupational Hazards of Cash and Credit in Kabul and Qandahar
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Government Account Book Fluidity
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Local Experiences of the New Fiscal Regime
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Part II The New Outdated Colonial Political Economy
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Chapter 4 Capital Concentrations and Coordinations: Peshawar Subsidies and Kabul Workshops
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The British Subsidization of Durrani Rulers
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Unequal Reciprocity: Durrani State Commercial Agents in Peshawar and English Firms in Kabul
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The Mashin Khana
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Chapter 5 New State Texts and Old Commercial Flows
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The Textual Dimensions of Anglo-Durrani State Formation
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State Monopolization of the Export Fruit Trade
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Commodity Monopoly Texts and the Qafilabashi
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Provincial Fuel for the State Mint and the Absorption of Social Debt
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Chapter 6 Mutual Evasion between Afghanistan and the Global Marketplace
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The Sethis of Peshawar and the British Recruitment of Secret Asiatic Agents
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North Indian Tea Trade Circumventions
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Conclusion: Deflecting Colonial Canons and Cannons: Alternate Routes to Knowing Afghanistan
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Notes
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Introduction: The Historical Location and Conceptual Framing of Afghanistan
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Chapter 1 Financing the Kabul Produce
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Chapter 2 Contracting Nomadic Carriage for an Aquatic Agenda
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Chapter 3 Fiscal Instability and State Revenue Reformulation during the First British Occupation
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Chapter 4 Capital Concentrations and Coordinations: Peshawar Subsidies and Kabul Workshops
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Chapter 5 New State Texts and Old Commercial Flows
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Chapter 6 Mutual Evasion between Afghanistan and the Global Marketplace
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Conclusion: Deflecting Colonial Canons and Cannons: Alternate Routes to Knowing Afghanistan
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Regular/Traditional/Printed Citations/Select Archival Sources
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Web Sites
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About the Author
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Published: 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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