was decided to replace Dost Mohammed Khan with a more pliant ruler. "Rumours could cost lives and Empire itself. Therefore instead of fixating on the oriental other, the East India Company played up the threat of the Russian bear".

In 1834, Shah Shuja Durrani invaded Kandahar with the aid of the British, but was defeated.

The Company sent an envoy to Kabul to form an alliance with Afghanistan's Amir,

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