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About UsMy AccountNo items in your cart Select a Category Online Courses Business Encyclopedias Industry & Marketing Reports Business News Company Profiles Business Plans Find Articles by Publication The Afghan gambit.(Book Review) Publication Date: 01-JUN-03 Publication Title: World and I Format: Online - approximately 4500 wordsAuthor: GAN, GANELI .MoreInfo {display:none;position:absolute;border-style:solid;background-color:white;padding:5px;width:300px} .hilitetext {font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#0D40A6;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;line-height:18px;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;} .hilitetext_pad5{font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#0D40A6;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;line-height:18px;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;padding-bottom:5;} Read this article now Try Goliath Business News – FREE!  You can view this article PLUS... Over 5 million business articles Hundreds of the most trusted magazines, newswires, and journals (see list) Premium business information that is timely and relevant Unlimited Access Now for a Limited Time, try Goliath Business News Free for 7 Days! Tell Me More Terms and Conditions Purchase this article for $4.95 Description Turkish-American novelist, translator, and critic Ganeli Gan is the author of two novels, On the Road to Baghdad and Book of Trances. She has translated Orhan Pamuk's two novels, The Black Book and The New Life, for which she received a National Translation Prize in 1999. She also translated BilgA Karasu's Night, which won Mobil's Pegasus Prize. Her own work has been translated into a dozen European languages. She lives in Oberlin, Ohio. Book Info:THE MULBERRY EMPIRE Or, the Two Virtuous Journeys of Dost Mohammed Khan Philip Hensher Publisher:New York: Knopf, 2002 512 pp., $26.00 Where to start with such a sumptuously detailed, deeply researched, playfully imagined, and solidly engineered book, complete with an extravagant cast of historical and fictional characters drawn with wit, pith, and precision? Philip Hensher's brilliantly plotted novel, The Mulberry Empire, takes the reader back to the nineteenth century on a reverse time machine when the British and Afghan empires crossed swords. The novel's subtitle, "Or the Two Virtuous Journeys of Dost Mohammed Khan," refers to the Afghan monarch's strategic withdrawal from and return to his capital, Kabul, when his country was occupied, and subsequently vacated, by a formidable British army. The subtitle, incidentally, borrows the actual title of a book written by a contemporary Kashmiri intellectual by the name of Mohan Lal, who appears as one of the many historical characters in the book. Hensher seems to have had the British reading public in mind as his target audience, and some of his references remain enigmatic to those of us who lack a clear grasp of British colonial history. A quick review of dates and events might be in order. The Great Game In early 1800, with Napoleon off the map and the Ottoman Empire stopped dead in its tracks, the new imperialist powers--the British Empire and czarist Russia--began running interference into Afghanistan's internal affairs. The Brits, who had the Indian subcontinent all sewn up, were eyeing the Afghan Hindu Kush mountains as a natural barrier to keep their rival imperialists from invading their colonial territories. The Russians had been swallowing up their neighboring independent Central Asian countries, due east and south, mostly Turkic and Mongol kingdoms that were remnants of Genghis Khan's empire. The Brits and the Russians thus became engaged in a nefarious contest for Afghanistan. These two empires' viciously greedy acquisition of territory, and their ignorant and heedless meddling with the remaining indigenous states, came to be known as "The Great Game"--which was anything but a game for the people in the region, who did not envision themselves as pawns. The first Anglo-Afghan War of 1838 was precipitated by British outrage over the presence of a Russian diplomat in Kabul. In an effort to shore up their own influence and annex Afghanistan into India, the British decided to depose the ruler, Dost Mohammad Khan, and replace him with their own puppet king, Shah Shujah. To accomplish this end, they raised a huge force, the Army of the Indus, which invaded Afghanistan without any resistance. But their self- absorbed and arrogant rule in Kabul prevented the occupational forces from realizing, until too late, that they were virtual prisoners in Afghanistan, caught between pitiless insurgent Afghan fighters and the harsh Afghan winter. Promised safe passage to Jalalabad, the Army of the Indus and dependents, a force of fifteen thousand, were pinned at the Khoord-Kabul Pass by the Afghan forces. There they were mercilessly slaughtered down to the last man, a Dr. Brydon, who was allowed to flee to Jalalabad where he could tell the British the tale of their tragic defeat. The knight-errant Hensher's protagonist, Capt. Alexander Burnes, is an adventurer and travel writer--and a historical personage. As the novel opens, Burnes arrives in Kabul, circa 1834, with a Dr. Gerrard and Mohan Lal, their guide and much resented instructor in Persian, then the lingua franca in those parts. They are there to make contact with the ruler, Dost Mohammed Khan, who lets them cool their heels in virtual house arrest until it suits him to grant them audience. When they finally do meet him, the khan turns out to be the paragon who fulfills... More articles from World and I Preventing Conflict by Understanding Islam., 01-FEB-05Religion and the Clash of Civilizations., 01-FEB-05Union Provost Took On the Thankless Tasks., 01-FEB-05 Looking for additional articles? Click here to search our database of over 3 million articles. Username: Password: Forgot your password? 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