“I must own I found the Douraunee Sirdars sincere and direct, and had
every reason to find them high-minded, and as honorable at least as any other
nobility in Asia; but the rest of the people about the government were very
generally mean, false and rapacious. Even the Sirdars, when in power, made
money by the most disgraceful extortion; numbers of them had deserted from one
party to another with shameless perfidy; and none, however attached to the
cause in which he was engaged, was at all inclined to make pecuniary sacrifices
to promote its interest.”
Montstuart Elphinstone, “An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul,” 1815
The housing style often called 'narcitecture,' or 'poppy palace.'
Top: Kandahar, 2006
Middle: Kabul, 2005
Bottom: Kabul, 2007
(Photos: Jim Chiavelli)
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