Warburton Family and Shah Begum Jehan

[Samandri]

Warburton is included in the Durrani royal family section at Royalark.net. Let me check whether Dost Muhammad Khan really had any brother by name of Abdul Rahim Khan (he had more than dozen step-brothers by the way)

warburton

[Samandri]

I am unable to find this Abdul Rahim, supposedly the brother of Dost Muhammad, any where so far. Few modern British books mentions him in connection with Warbarton but in the same unconvincing vague narrative style without citing any credible source . Even if we accept that he married an Afghan, she could be any one , even a prostitute. He claimed her to be an Afghan princess and there was no one to verify his claim whether she really was an Afghan princess. It sound like that British story in which they were claiming that Afridi women execute the British captives by drowning them on urinating over their faces





Armies of the Raj: From the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 - Byron Farwell - Google Books

[maneatinglizard]

Warburton is included in the Durrani royal family section at Royalark.net. Let me check whether Dost Muhammad Khan really had any brother by name of Abdul Rahim Khan (he had more than dozen step-brothers by the way)

warburton

Right, I didn't notice that. However, the lineage claims that Abdul Rahim Khan's father was someone named "Mansur Khan Indarani," so he couldn't have been Dost Muhammad Khan's brother, meaning if Shah Jahan Begum was really his niece, it'd have to be through her mother's side.

However, none of the 4 sisters of Dost Muhammad Khan married an Abdul Rahim Khan according to their lineage page, so it appears that there's no way this person is actually related to Dost Muhammad Khan.

I am unable to find this Abdul Rahim, supposedly the brother of Dost Muhammad, any where so far. Few books mentions that mentions him , is in connection with Warbarton and in the same unconvincing narrative style. Even if we accept that he married an Afghan, it could be any one , even a prostitute. He claimed her to be an Afghan princess and there was no one to verify his claim whether she really was an Afghan princess. It sound like that British story in which they were claiming that Afridi women execute the British captives by drowning them on urinating over their faces

I think prostitution is the most likely explanation. It would also explain the strange questions surrounding the paternity of her first son. Assuming she even was an Afghan. Otherwise I don't see how this marriage happened, unless he just kidnapped some poor girl and made her his wife.

Either way, the storybook romance is almost definitely fiction, as is the claim of royal descent. Funnily enough Elite Pakhtun mentioned the family of Ranjit Singh, as apparently his son, Duleep, married a poor Englishwoman that had been his mistress, but tried to portray her as a French princess to legitimize her.

It's things like, and that story of Afridi women you mention, that makes me wish we had done a better job of maintaining our own history. Our history is almost completely in the hands of foreigners, many of them hostile, and they're free to portray us as they please.

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

I am unable to find this Abdul Rahim, supposedly the brother of Dost Muhammad, any where so far. Few modern British books mentions him in connection with Warbarton but in the same unconvincing vague narrative style without citing any credible source . Even if we accept that he married an Afghan, she could be any one , even a prostitute. He claimed her to be an Afghan princess and there was no one to verify his claim whether she really was an Afghan princess. It sound like that British story in which they were claiming that Afridi women execute the British captives by drowning them on urinating over their faces





Armies of the Raj: From the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 - Byron Farwell - Google Books

I think they may have used this narrative to try and influence or quell Pashtun tribes from taking arms against them.

[Terminal20]

ManeatingLizard if you are uncomfortable at the idea that Pashtun women were eloping with Angraiz then that may not be the case. The city was overwhelmingly non-Pashtun even in 1876.



This enumeration of the residents of the city of Kabul in 1876, was done under supervision of Qazi Abdul Qadir Yousafzai alias Qazi Qadiro who belonged to Peshawar ("A Political an Diplomatic history of Afghanistan", Hassan Kakar, p-18). The Peshawar Qazi Khels are the Yousafzai Afghans of the Dawlatzai branch. ("Chiefs and Families of Note: In the Dehli, Jalandhar, Peshawar and Derajat", Charles Francis Massy, p-460)

The author of the book from which snippet is taken, says ; "The second main group of the city inhabitants were the Pashtuns (Durranis, Ghilzays, and Safays), who had began to adopt to the city ways of life without abandoning the traditional ways of the country (rural) " ("Government and society of Afghanistan during the reign of Amir Abdur Rahman", Hassan Kakar, p-136)

Didn't ''Afghan'' specifically refered to Pashtuns in ancient times?

I suspect other ethnics would be refered as something else, or no?