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When the English occupied Jalalabad, Kandhar, Ghazni and Kabul
in the name of Shahshuja in 1255.A.H. (1839.A.D.) they had placed
on the throne one of the sons of Shahshuja, Fateh Jung whereas
the real government was in the hands of Major Linch at Kandahar.
But as difference of opinion arose between Linch and Macnaugh-
ton, the Political Adviser of the English at Kabul, Linch was replaced by
Major Rawlinson who had seen service for years in Iran. Rawlinson
spoke persian well and was well versed with the conditions in the
East. He was appointed on 4th. July 1840. A. D. in his new post at
Kandahar, and ofcourse, the military command was under General Nott.
The general however was highly self-opinionated and of very limited
vision regarding greater things. Macnaughton, too, was not too
pleased with General Nott.
During the first year of the unified rule of the English and
Shahshuja (1840.A.D. ) while Shahshuja held, through English support
of course, an unwilling mastery over Kabul and the regions of the
southern Hindu Kush, the English helped to improve some of the
activities of internal administration-according to certain views. But
much time had not passed, when the banner of resistance against
them and their protege Shah Shuja was raised at Kandahar and
in the north-west of that area.
The outbreak in the area of Dawar is imputed by some to
be due to the collection of land revenue (this is the English version )
by Shah Shuja, while others think that the insurrection was caused
through the jealousy of the Barakzais and Sadozais Mr. Close, an
English writer believes that the Dawar revolt was caused by one
Akhtar khan, who was not elected as the head of that region. But
according to the version of John William Key, an English author
of a book entitled The History of the Afghan Wars, the real reason
of that movement was the resentment of the people of Dawar and
Akhtar khan due to the interference of the foreigners in their land,
that is to say the English were interfering in the life and work of
the Dawar people. The author says that the English had forgotten that
their unpopularity was due to the activity of the king whom they
( the English) had placed upon the throne of Afghanistan. And that
the presence of these English forces was directly disadvantageous to
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