88, 89; his instructions to Lord Lytton two months before Lord Northbrook's retirement, 87; Lord Lytton is to announce the new conditions' of his Vice- royalty at Cabul by a special mission, 88; thinks Lord North- brook's personal assurance of help against invasion was insufficient, 92; his extraordinary statement in the House of Lords as to the Peshawur Conference and the Ameer's disposition and feelings, 161, 164; his attempt to recon- cile that statement with the truth, 164-166; really threatens war against the Ameer in October, 1877, 170, 171. Shere Ali, Ameer, succeeds his father
in 1863, 3, 4; establishes his supremacy in 1868, 8; vexed at British neutrality during the civil war, 10; dissatisfied with the Seistan award, but accepts it, 40,' declares Abdoolah Jan his heir in 1873, 61; forbids English offi- cers to pass through his country, 52; resents Lord Northbrook's re-
monstrance at his treatment of Tother and rival of Ameer
Yakoob Khan, 53; strongly averse to English Agency in his country, 61-65, 84; not badly disposed towards us in 1875, 65, 66; con- sults the British Government as to his expedition to Maimena, 83; studies English books and papers, 86, 89; declines to receive Sir Lewis Pelly, 97; alarmed at the occupation of Quetta and warlike movements in the Punjaub, 111, 112, 169 (footnote), 291; accused of stirring up a religious war, 112, 308, 309; receives a Turkish En- voy, sent through India, who pro-
Shere Ali, 4; recognised as de facto ruler, 5. Umballa, Conference at, 27.
AKEEL, British, or Native
Gholam Hussein, withdrawn from Cabul after Peshawur Conference, 168, 169; reports Ameer's inter- course with Russian Governor in 1873, 265, 266; nothing escaped his vigilance, 266.
WAKOOB KHAN, Sirdar, second
poses a religious war against Rus-YAKO of Ameer Shere Ali, rebels
sia, 289-292; averse to receive the Russian Envoy, 299, 305, 306; displeased at the form of Lord Lytton's proposed Mission,
against his father, 52; and is confined, 53; his popularity powerless against the Ameer, 83.
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