Kabul Under Siege

Dr.Robert McChesnay

In January 1929, the reigning monarch of Afghanistan, Amir Aman Allah Khan, was driven from his capital by a former soldier turned outlaw. The uprising was a response to the ruler's attempts to modernize the tribal culture of Afghanistan. Kabul, then as now, was of considerable symbolic importance, and its loss sounded the death knell to the king's power and his reforms, much as the defeat of the Soviet-backed government in 1993 spelled the end of Marxist power in Afghanistan as well as its efforts at reforming this unyieldingly tribal society.

Until now, there has been no account of the nine-month rule of the outlaw-king, Habib Allah, nicknamed "Son of the Watercarrier," from inside the capital. During the occupation, Fayz Muhammad, a Kabul resident and well-known historian who had already published an authoritative history of the country, and had chronicled the reigns of Aman Allah and his immediate predecessor, kept a detailed journal, which forms the basis of this book.

This account of the occupiers' extortion, confiscation, and the resulting hardships, as well as the actions of those who resisted, is a timely reminder of the drama being played out in Afghanistan today

Kabul Under Siege
" Robert McChesnay has provided a useful and readable translation of Fayz Muhammad Katib's "Kitab--i Tazakkur-i Inqqilab (Memoirs of the Revolution) one of the only accounts of the Saqqaoist regime in Afghanistan to be written by an eyewitness observer of the events that took place in Kabul in 1929.... McChesnay has not only rendered a lucid translation of the Tazakkur, but ha has also succeeded in deciphering a myriad an Afghan personal and place names... He has scattered helpful commentaries and maps throughout "Kabul under Siege", and included glossary for those unfamiliar with various Persian and Pashto terms...an excellent and useful translation
--Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review

 

Table of Contents for Kabul Under Siege

List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface, Acknowledgments, and Note on Transliteration

Introduction
Fayz Muhammad: His Life and Works
Fayz Muhammad's Journal/Narrative of the 1929 Putsch

Part One:
The Tajiks Take Kabul
The Background of Habib Allah, "the Watercarrier's Boy"
The First Tajik Assault on Kabul
The Second Tajik Assault, the Abdication of Aman Allah, and the Three-Day Amirate of ®!=Inayat Allah Khan
Habib Allah Takes Full Possession of the Capital

Part Two:
The Tajiks Consolidate and Resistance Grows
®!=Ali Ahmad Khan Luynab's Amirate in the East
The Tajik Administration in Kabul
Evacuation of Foreigners
Demonstrations of Support for Aman Allah in Kabul
Habib Allah's Struggle to Extend His Control and Defend Kabul
The Kabul-Qandahar Routes
The Capture of Qandahar and Its Aftermath
The Final for ®!=Ali Ahmad Luynab
The Logar Valley
The Arrival of Nadir Khan in the Logar Valley
The Tagab Front
The Ghurband Front
The Situation in Kabul to the Beginning of June
Confiscations, Requisitions, and Price Controls
Assassination Plots
Sexual Improprieties
Religious Deviation

Part Three:
Habib Allah and the Hazarahs
The Second Mission to the Hazarahjat
The Third Delegation to the Hazarahjat
Fighting between Hazarahs and Tajiks Continues
Executions in Kabul and Divisions in Hazarah Ranks

Part Four:
Nadir Khan Fades Away and the Hazarahs Negotiate
Musahiban Activity in the Eastern and Southern Provinces
The Independence Day Celebrations
The End of Resistance in Tagab
The Hazarahs Make Their Peace with the Tajiks

Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
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