1884 Reclus print SHER ALI KHAN, EMIR OF AFGHANISTAN 1863-1879, #7

Description: Reclus09_07 1884 Reclus print SHER ALI KHAN, EMIR OF AFGHANISTAN 1863-1879, #7 Nice print titled L'EMIR CHIR ALI, LE PRINCE ABDALLAH YAN ET CHEFS DOURANI. Dessin de A. Sirouy, d'après une photographie de M. Burke., from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approx. page size is 28 x 18 cm, approx. image size is 18.5 x 12.5 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes / The Earth and Its Inhabitants, great work of Elisee Reclus. Shīr ʿAlī Khān born 1825, Kābul?, Afg., died Feb. 21, 1879, Mazār-e Sharif emir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1879 who tried with only limited success to maintain his nation's equilibrium in the great power struggles between Russia in the north and British India in the south. The third son of Dōst Moḥammad Khān, Shīr ʿAlī succeeded to the throne upon his father's death. Only after a bewildering series of intra-family struggles, revolts, and civil war, however, was his hold on the throne secure. Shīr ʿAlī attempted to maintain Afghanistan as a noninvolved buffer state in the continuing conflicts between Russia and Great Britain. The British finally concluded, however, that he was coming under Russian influence and created situations, both intentionally and unintentionally, that developed into the Second Afghan War (1878–81). The British executed a well-planned three-pronged drive into Afghanistan. Shīr ʿAlī tried to rally the tribes to his support with little success. He then placed his son Yaʿqūb Khān on the throne and fled toward Turkistan; he died during the journey.

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