'Inside the City of Kabul (The Bala Hissar)', c1840, (1901). Creators: Unknown, James Atkinson.

'Inside the City of Kabul (The Bala Hissar)', c1840, (1901). Creators: Unknown, James Atkinson.

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'Inside the City of Kabul (The Bala Hissar)', c1840, (1901). 'Quadrangle occupied by the Durbar-Khaneh and the Harem Serai'. View of the Bala Hissar ('High Fort'), an ancient fortress residence of the emirs in Kabul, Afghanistan. Shah Shoja is seated on the balcony looking down at the lines of Khans and Officers of State assembled for a durbar. The Durbar-Khana was the official meeting-hall. A former ally of the British from the Napoleonic Wars, Shah Shoja was restored as ruler of Afghanistan by the British in 1839 as they sought to block Russian influence in the country. He was assassinated in 1842. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]


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Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
  2. James Atkinson, attributed to: British: Artist
Subject
  1. Shah Shoja: Afghani: Ruler
People Related
  1. TC and EC Jack: British: Publisher, publishers, publishing company
  2. J Maclaren Cobban: : Author, writer, historian
  3. Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts: British: Commander in Chief of the British Army

Picture Type
  1. Landscape

Geographic Hierarchy

World Asia Afghanistan Kābul Kābul

  1. 34 31 00 N , 069 11 00 E

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5660x3865
File Size : 64,090kb


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  1. 0580064937
  1. 2-711-169
  1. 2711169

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