Trials of the Past: A Theoretical Approach to State Centralisation in Afghanistan

A. Parkes

DOI:10.1177/2230807518767710

Corpus ID: 158800766

Trials of the Past: A Theoretical Approach to State Centralisation in Afghanistan

@article{Parkes2018TrialsOT,
  title={Trials of the Past: A Theoretical Approach to State Centralisation in Afghanistan},
  author={A. Parkes},
  journal={History and Sociology of South Asia},
  year={2018},
  volume={12},
  pages={149 - 159}
}

A. Parkes

Published 2018

Political Science

History and Sociology of South Asia

Abstract German sociologist Max Weber observes that the centralisation of administrative function is imperative to a stable nation state. Yet, despite this sovereign necessity, attempts at incorporating heterogeneous sociopolitical entities into a cohesive society eluded nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Durrani is known as the father of Afghanistan. He bears this title because he unified a collection of tribes and established a pseudo-confederation of territories… CONTINUE READING

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