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| Keywords: Kandahar Lady of ranks.jpg en Kandahar Lady of Rank Engaged in Smoking This lithograph was taken from plate 29 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray Rattray does not tell us much about the subject of this portrait Begum Jan other than her status as a 'lady of rank' in Kandahar He writes Many of these Afghan ladies have rendered their names celebrated in history by their conjugal attachment and devotion to the cause they supported He gives as an example Shah Shujah's favourite wife Wafadar Begum who was immortalised in prose by Alexander Burnes after courageously rescuing him from imprisonment by the Sikh ruler Ranjeet Singh Rattray also wrote of the brave widow of Akram Khan who was a powerful chief of Zamindawar to the south of Kandahar When Khan was executed for refusing to tender allegiance to Shah Shuja in 1842 his widow threw off her burkha and led his tribe to battle astride her husband's horse After a desperate struggle she was driven back Rattray wrote A cause so just and a devotion so noble merited a more successful termination Institution British Library http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000562u00029000 html Online Gallery 1848 Carrick Robert C fl mid-19th century after R PD-Old PD-old-70 1848 lithographs 19th-century paintings of sitting women at full length Clothing of Afghanistan History of Afghanistan in art Hookahs in art People of Kandahar Women of Afghanistan in art 19th-century people of Afghanistan | ||||
