Guest Talk: ‘Afghanistan in the Age of Empires: Farrukh Husain in conversation with Victoria Schofield.’

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

Farrukh Husain will be in conversation with Victoria Schofield discussing his acclaimed account of the first Afghan war entitled ‘Afghanistan in the Age of Empires’ detailing the role of Afghan women in combat, the respective merits of Afghan and British weaponry and how and why the Kabul uprising occurred on the anniversary of the battle…