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## Introduction: The Historical Location and Conceptual Framing of Afghanistan Old Market Time and New State Space from the Silk Road to the Indian Ocean The emergence of new states tends to transform old market relations. Modern states are fundamentally territorial entities, while markets are essentially time-bound to various daily, seasonal, and political calendars. But markets and states also overlap and share temporal and spatial interests in such things as cities. This generality is all to say that there is a range of possible relationships between markets and states in time and space that oscillate between complementary and oppositional polarities. In the case of Afghanistan, we are dealing with very old markets and a very new state, and the Afghan state has not fared well in terms of market integration. The state structure that took shape in and around Qandahar under the direction of Ahmad Shah Abdali/Durrani in the mid-eighteenth century had deep roots in both Iran and India. Ahmad Shah was born in the Mughal district of Multan on the Indus river plain, but he gained political recognition to the west in the service of the Turco-Iranian ruler Nadir Shah Afshar. Ahmad Shah's

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Author

Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804774116

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Business, Political Science