Afghanistan And The Afghans: Being A Brief Review Of The History Of The Country, And Account, Of Its People, With A Special Reference (HB)

About the book:--The author reveals that the final rupture between their Government and the Amir of Kabul, which has been impending at any time during the past four or five years—and which assumed a more threatening aspect after his contemptuous treatment of the Viceroy’s polite invitation to the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, by which act he signalized himself as the only independent ruler in diplomatic relations with the Government of India who refused to be represented at that August ceremony—has all of a sudden been brought prominently before the Britishpeople by the warlike action of Government to resent the premeditated and unprovoked insult of a spoiled and petted barbarian neighbour who has mistaken conciliation for fear, and forbearance for weakness