Imperialist invasions have scarred Afghanistan’s history over the last three centuries, writes Simon Basketter, but the great powers’ plans have been thwarted by resistance.

In March 1836 Lord Auckland, the British governor of India, wrote to the Afghan ruler Amir Dost Mohammed with no apparent sense of irony, “You are aware that it is not the practice of the British government to interfere with the affairs of other independent states.” Afghanistan would be a far better place today it he had being telling the truth. Afghanistan’s entire history is one of attempts by imperial powers to dominate it.

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Afghanistan

A kingdom of Afghanistan was founded in 1747. Under the auspices of the East India Company, Britain made repeated attempts to force Afghanistan under its domination throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. France and Russia planned a combined invasion of India in 1807. This threat induced the British to come to an agreement with the Afghan rulers. In a predictable fit of incompetence, Britain signed a treaty with the ruler Shah Shuja on 7 June 1809. But before the ink was dry Shah Shuja had lost power to Dost Mohammed, who looked to Russia for support.

Thirty years of peace ensued as the British plotted their next move. By 1838 they were ready. On 2 November that year British forces assembled at Firozpur in India began marching towards the city of Kandahar. The government covered up the East India Company’s influence over the outbreak of the war, even producing false documents to justify the war. Read More…