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ABD

BDOOLLAH JAN, heir apparent

ABDOOLLAH heir

Abdul Rahman Khan, nephew of
the Ameer Shere Ali and pre-
tender to the throne, a refugee in
Russian Turkistan, protected on
condition of abstaining from in-
trigues against the Afghan State,
230, 240, 296.

Adye, Gen. Sir John, opposed to any
advance into Afghanistan, 25.
Afzul Khan, Mahomed, see Ufzul.
Argyll, Duke of, on Umballa Con-

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his several statements on the
subject, 314-317.

Bellew, Dr. H. A., conversation with
Syud Noor Mahomed in January,
1877, 113; says that Quetta is
considered by the Afghans to be
part of their country, 204.
Butler, Captain, supposed to be in-
citing Turkoman chiefs to co-
operate in war against Russia, 294;
recalled by British Government,
but remains in Turkistan, 294.

YAVAGNARI, Major, sent for-

ference of 1869, 32; makes in-ward by Sir Neville Chamber-

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quiries of Lord Salisbury as to
our relations and policy with re-
gard to Afghanistan, and as to
military demonstration on
frontier, 160, 161.
Atta Mahomed, Nawab, British
Vakeel or Native Agent at Cabul,
his competency, 59, 60; sum-
moned to Simla in 1876, 103;
conveys a threatening message
from Lord Lytton to Shere Ali,
104; rewarded for his faithful
services, 106, 157; unjustly
charged with stupidity or dis-
loyalty, 146, 157; withdrawn
from Cabul, 168.

BAKER, Colonel, excluded from

Afghanistan by the Ameer, 52.
Beaconsfield, Earl of, declares the
purpose of the Afghan war to be
the attainment of a scientific
frontier,' 314; contradictions in

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lain into Afghan territory and
turned back by the Commandant
of Ali Musjeed, 178; his diary
bears witness to Shere Ali's alarm
at the Russian Mission and en-
deavour to stop it, 299, 300.
Chamberlain, General Sir Neville,
appointed Envoy to Cabul, 174;
believes the Ameer is trifling with
us, 178; and that if Lord Lytton
orders the advance of the Mission
there can be no peaceful solution,
178.

Conference, see Umballa, Simla, and
Peshawur.

Councillors, Lord Lytton's, in 1876,
their notes of dissent not re-
corded, 96, 102, 103.
Cranbrook, Viscount, Secretary of
State, his account in a despatch,
dated November 18, 1878, of the
transactions with Shere Ali, 185-

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196; erroneously represents the
Ameer as being actuated by fear
of Russia in sending his Envoy
to the Simla Conference, 188-197;
erroneously represents assistance
against invasion to have been
refused at the Simla Conference,
and imputes that imagined re-
fusal to Mr. Gladstone's Govern-
ment, 188-197; drops all mention
of the Treaty of 1857, 186, 196;
describes very inaccurately the
correspondence between Shere
Ali and the Russian General
Kaufmann, 267-270; insists on
British Mission being received at
Cabul, and proposes to remon-
strate against Russian Mission,
309.

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YHOLAM Hussein, Nawab,
J British Vakeel or Native
Agent at Cabul, 61; sent to
Cabul to announce Sir Neville
Chamberlain's Mission, 174, 175;
recommends patience and believes
Mission will be received if there
is no display of force, 176.
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., his
Government in 1869 comes to an
understanding with Russia re-
garding Central Asia and Afghan-
istan, 228, 232; his good under-
standing with Russia on these
points in 1874, 240.
Gortschakoff, Prince, Russian Chan-

cellor, his circular of November
21, 1864, on Central Asian affairs,

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his letters to Shere Ali, 53;
exaggeration as to his intercourse
with the Ameer, 143, 157; his
letters to the Ameer Shere Ali,
254; approved by Lord Mayo,
257, 259, 262; his letters to the
Ameer in 1872 and 1873, 263,
264; his letters to the Ameer in
August and October, 1875, 266,
267; sends a messenger to Cabul
in February 1876, 267; his cor-
respondence with the Ameer de-
nounced by Lord Lytton, 276,
277; Lord Salisbury complains of
his letters to Cabul, 287.
Khiva, discussions between the
British and Russian Governments
as to the expedition to, 234-239;
considered by Russia to be quite
within her sphere of action,' 244.

LAWRENCE, Sir John (afterwards

Lord), concludes Treaty of 1855
with Dost Mahomed, 1; Treaty of
1857, 2; succeeds as Viceroy, 4;
preserves neutrality in civil war,
4; recognises Ufzul Khan as de
facto ruler, 5; farewell letter of
1869 to Ameer Shere Ali, 27;
deprecates occupation of Quetta,

205.

Loftus, Lord A., on Gen. Llamakin's
circular, 1864, 241; reports Mr.
Disraeli's speech in the House of

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Commons of May 5, 1876, to be
well received in Russia, 251; in-
quires of Gortschakoff in Novem-
ber, 1876, as to Russian Agent at
Cabul and designs on Merv, 281;
inquires as to Russian Mission to
Cabul, 293.

Lytton, Lord, succeeds as Viceroy,

85; his instructions from Lord
Salisbury, 87; he is to announce
his assumption of the Viceroyalty,
under the new conditions,' by
a special mission to the Ameer of
Afghanistan, 88; keeps out the
adverse Minutes of three Coun-
cillors, 102; sends a threatening

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source of satisfaction and a ground
of confidence,' 257-259; expresses
himself to the same effect in
despatch to the Home Govern-
ment, 259, 260; considers Kauf-
mann's letter of 1871 to the Ameer
Shere Ali, 'most satisfactory,' 262.
Merv, considered by Russia to be

far beyond recognised Afghan
frontier, 244; inquiry made of
Russian Government, in 1876, as
to designs on, 281.

Muir, Sir William, Member of Lord
Lytton's Council, his Minute of
dissent shut out, 102, 103.

TAPIER, Captain, supposed by

message to Shere Ali by the Na-Russia to be inciting Turko-

tive Agent, 104-106; insists on
British agency in Afghanistan,
106; and invites the Ameer to the
Imperial assemblage at Delhi,
107; gives instructions and draft
treaty to Sir Lewis Pelly, 107;
abruptly orders Peshawur Con-
ference to be closed, 126; with-
draws the Native Agent from Ca-
bul, but withholds all mention of
that step from public despatches,
168, 169; orders the occupation
of Quetta, 218; complains of
Gen. Kaufmann's correspondence
with the Afghan Ameer, 276, 277;
reports the advent of Russian
Envoy to Cabul, 172, 173; made
war inevitable by his aggressive
policy, 173, 174; orders Sir
Neville Chamberlain's mission
with military escort to cross the
Afghan frontier, 178; sends ulti-
matum to Shere Ali, 180; issues
proclamation of war, 182.

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mans in 1878 to war, 294.
Native Agent, see Atta Mahomed,
Gholam Hussein and Vakeel;
withdrawn from Cabul after
Peshawur Conference, 168, 169;
reports the Ameer Shere Ali's
communications with the Russian
Governor in 1873, 265, 266;
nothing important escaped his
vigilance, 266; since his removal,
the Ameer was without direct
communication with the British
Government, 306.

Noor Mahomed Syud, Afghan
Minister and Envoy, deputed to
meet Lord Northbrook at Simla
in 1873, 41; meets Sir Lewis Pelly
at Peshawur in January, 1877,
113; his conversation with Dr.
Bellew, 113-115; denies that the
Ameer is anxious for any new
engagement, 117; denies any
design of jehad or religious war,
122; his death at Peshawur, 122.
Norman, Gen. Sir H., opposed to
the forward policy,' 25, 206; his
dissent in Council not recorded,
96-102.

Northbrook, Earl of, holds con-
ference at Simla with Afghan
Envoy in
1873, 43; assures
Ameer of assistance against in-
vasion, 44, 92; letter thereon to

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Shere Ali, 45; thinks Afghan
Government stronger under Shere
Ali than ever before, 66, 83, 185;
objects to concealing real purpose
of Mission from the Ameer, 76;
disbelieves in Russian designs on
Afghanistan, 80; would not press
British agency on the Ameer, 84.

PELLY, Sir Lewis, opens Pe-

shawur Conference in January,
1877, 113; insists on residence of
British officers in Afghanistan as
a preliminary, 115; erroneously
asserts the Treaty of 1857 not to.
exist, 123; and the Treaty of
1855 to have been broken by the
Ameer's unfriendly acts, 123.
Peshawur, Conference at, 111;
closed by Lord Lytton's order,
126; officially described, 127, 158;
Lord George Hamilton's account
of it, 159, 160, 161; Lord Salis-
bury's account of it, 161, 164.
Pollock, Sir Richard, Commissioner

at Peshawur, considers in 1875
that the Ameer seeks assistance
only from British Government,
65.

Qby Sir H. Rawlinson in 1865, 12;

UETTA, occupation of, suggested

deprecated by Sir W. Mansfield,
Commander-in-Chief in India,
17; also by Sir R. Temple, Sir
J. Strachey, Sir H. Maine, Sir H.
Norman, Sir H. Davies, Sir H.
Lumsden, and Sir D. Macleod,
206, 207; its occupation alarms
Shere Ali, 111, 112, 169 (foot-
note), 291; place described, 203;
geographically belongs to Afghan-
istan, 204; its occupation recom-
mended by Sir Bartle Frere, Sir
Henry Rawlinson, and Sir Lewis
Pelly, 205; deprecated by every
Viceroy in Council and every
Secretary of State down to 1876,
205; occupied on November 2,
1876, 218; its occupation the
first step to the invasion of

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Afghanistan, 211; Russian Go-
vernment disquieted by its occu-
pation, 243.

AWLINSON, Gen. Sir H. C.,

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his memorandum of 1865, re-
commending the 'forward policy,'
11; his services, 23; his book re-
commending seizure of Afghan
territory, published in 1875, 86;
probably read by the Ameer Shere
Ali, 86, 89.

Russia, good understanding with,
in 1874, under Mr. Gladstone's
Government, as to Afghan and
Central Asian affairs, 228, 232,
240; claims right in 1875 to
liberty of action between her
frontier and that of Afghanistan,
244; formally denies that General
Kaufmann's correspondence with
Cabul is a breach of the under-
standing with the British Govern-
ment, 287; complains of Turkish
Envoy sent through India to
Afghanistan to preach a religious
war, 287, 289; remonstrates
against the movements of Cap-
tains Butler and Napier, reported
to be inciting Turkomans to war
against Russia, 293, 294; fears
Anglo-Indian expedition against
her Asiatic provinces, 275, 276,
288, 294; very mild remon-
strances addressed to her against
the mission to Cabul, in 1878,
309-311.

Russian Envoy at Cabul, 172;
question put to M. de Giers by
Lord A. Loftus, 293.

ALISBURY, Marquis of, his

letter to Lord Northbrook of
January 22, 1875, suggesting
British Agencies at Herat and
Candahar, 55; urges Lord North-
brook to 'find' or 'create' a pre-
text for introducing British
Agency, 69-73; fears dominant
Russian influence at Cabul, 70

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