Abstract
The third Anglo-Afghan war holds a very unique place in the histories of both Afghanistan and Great Britain. Afghanistan wasn’t sovereign in its foreign affair in the times of Amir Abdul Rehman and Amir Habibullah Khan and the young Amanullah detested this greatly and decided that the first step of Afghanistan towards modernism should be its external sovereignty. It was, so to speak, a stepping stone for Afghanistan’s quest for modernism. A dream that Amanullah had dreamed since a very young age and was now almost in his grasp. For the British, it marked the beginning of the decay of their hold on the sub-continent. They were already war-weary and were losing control over the sub-continent due to various political activities of the nationalists of the sub-continent. The third Anglo-Afghan served as another one of these agitations and sure was an agitation. This agitation was witnessed in the British literature after the war in several books written by people who had served in the British military force during the time of war. This article will closely analyze the events of the third Anglo-Afghan war and the consequences of the war along with the treaty signed after it and, based on the analyzed data, 165 conclude who took what benefits from the war and what losses both suffered. It will be claimed that both countries, won the war and lost it. won it in some ways and lost it in some other ways, and that by the end of it both countries found themselves the subjects of the classic observation that, in war, there are neither victors nor the defeated. The significance of this article is that it will look at the events of the war from various perspectives, namely; Afghan, British and non-biased perspectives and conclude respectively
Syed Wahid-ud-Din, Jahanzaib Khan. (2019) The Third Anglo-Afghan War: A Critical Analysis, Balochistan Review, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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