Description

The Afghan Committee of the British Parliament was comprised of members of Parliament from all parties who were critical of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878‒80) and the policies that had led to it. The committee issued documents and reports intended to help the public to understand the war and to counter the secrecy with which, in the committee’s view, the British government had conducted its policy toward Afghanistan. Afghanistan: In Relation to Past Conquests of India is a pamphlet published by the committee in 1879, written by the ...