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Ruhainah, the Maid of Herat: A Story of Afghan Life is an historical novel, closely based on events in Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42). The heroine of the book, Ruhainah, is a former slave girl from Kashmir in the harem of a powerful Afghan chieftain who after the chieftain’s death marries Bertrand Bernard, a fictional British officer modeled on a real person. The author, Thomas Patrick Hughes (1838–1911), was an Anglican deacon, originally from Shropshire, England, who spent nearly 20 years at the Church Missionary ...