1 Appendix B.
2 the remnants of his power. The rest of the country was divided
3 amongst the Barakzai brothers, Dost Muhammad Khan, the ablest
4 of them all, getting Kabul, where, in 1826, he assumed the title of
5 Amir, and became the ruler of Afghanistan.
6 In 1837, owing to the intrigues of Russia with Persia and the
7 siege of Herat, the Government of India sent Sir Alexander Burnes
8 to Kabul to negotiate an alliance with the Amir. The mission
9 failed in its object, and Lord Auckland, the Governor-General,
10 with a view to establishing British influence in Afghanistan, took
11 the rash determination to depose the Amir and to restore Shah
12 Shuja. This was successfully accomplished in April 1839, and a
13 British army of occupation remained in Afghanistan to protect
14 the newly crowned monarch, Dost Muhammad being sent to
15 Calcutta, where he remained a state prisoner. Two years later
16 an insurrection, headed by the Dost's son, Akbar Khan, resulted
17 in the murders of the British representatives, Burnes and Mac-
18 naghten, and the total destruction of the British garrison of Kabul.
19 This disaster was retrieved the same year by the advance of General
20 Pollock from the Khaibar Pass, and General Nott from Kandahar.
21 Kabul was occupied, the British prisoners were released, Akbar
22 Khan was routed, and the citadel and central bazar of the city
23 were destroyed. The British force evacuated Kabul at the end of
24 the year, and Shah Shuja having, in the meantime, been assassinated,
25 Dost Muhammad Khan was allowed to return to his former position
26 as Amir of Afghanistan, which he continued to hold till his death
27 in 1865.
28 LIST OF THE RULERS AT KABUL.
29 Ahmad Shah Durani 1747-1773.
30 Timiir 1773-1793.
31 Shah Zeman1 1793-1800.
32 ShahMahmud2 1800-1803.
33 Shah Shuja3 1803-1810.
34 ShahMahmud4 1810-1818.
35 Shah Ayub5 1818-1826.
36 Dost Muhammad Khan 6 1826-1839.
37 Shah Shuja7 1839-1842.
38 Dost Muhammad Khan8 1842-1865.
39 i Deposed by his brother Mahmtid. 2 Deposed by his brother Shuja.
40 3 Deposed by his brother Mahmtid. * Expelled by the Barakzai brothers.
41 5 Ruler in name only. 8 Deposed by the British.
42 7 Assassinated. 8 Founder of the present dynasty.