How The Afghans Won & Lost An Empire | Afghanistan Documentary
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I want to thank Timur Khan for his invaluable help with the script. He is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University. His research focuses on Durrani rule in 18th and 19th century Peshawar. Check out his Academia page: leidenuni.academia.edu/TimurKhan
The Afghans have been renowned throughout history for their martial prowess. In the 18th century there were a few separate occasions where they focused on state-building as well. The Durrani's, under the leadership of Ahmad Shah, built their own empire from the malaise of Nader Shah's death in 1747. The Durrani Empire set a strong early precedent of launching invasions of India in order to gain loot that could be used to enrich their empire. In the process, the foundation was set for the modern nation-state of Afghanistan. Nevertheless, the fragile infrastructure of the Durrani Empire condemned it to come crashing down within 50 years of Ahmad Shah’s death.
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0:00 Intro
2:32 Historical Context
5:40 Afghan Birth Story
14:52 India The Cash Cow
19:23 Sikhs Troubles & Ahmad Shah's Final Years
23:52 Succeeding The Father of Afghanistan
25:34 Timur Shah
31:11 Zaman Shah
35:56 Durrani Downfall & Barakzai Ascendancy
41:44 Outro
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Pashtun
The lost tribe of Beni Israel
The mighty conqueror
The people of God's chosen one
But now they are Muslims
No more Jewish
Albino u better hold it down u have everything includes us 1st Huemans ⌚
As a sikh i think u should've talked about zamzama canon or zamzam touf which durrani made it played a big role in afgan and sikh history but great video indeed.
You're right, I could've mentioned it briefly. I will be making a video on Dost Mohammad Khan this year, so I can bring it up in that video.
Im not even done yet but had to pause to say this… thank you this is yet another masterpiece man. I really appreciate your work. Its a crying shame that these videos dont get millions of views. The amount of work you put into this should be rewarded..
what you have is special you remind me of a history teacher i had years ago when i was a kid in schools he made history fun to learn and thats what you do. Again Thanks so much
Thank you very much for the lovely message!
Afghans have made many enemies, just because they wanted to stay neutral and sovereign country between the powers, in this process half the world don't like us, this is why his videos don't get likes.
@@Mu5tyLaghmaniI think half the world are probably just ignorant.
I don’t think it’s they don’t like you. They just have no interest in learning anything outside of themselves. Each to their own but it’s how they live in peace. Remaining ignorant
I’m Qizilbash from 🇦🇫 from my mothers side and she is a direct decendant of dervish ali beqq he wasn’t a hazara but he was from Gilan originally and a Qizilbash wiki is incorrect about it
Greetings from Iran!
Do you or your family speak Turkish, or Persian?
No one cares.
@@tysonclark5974Well I care actually
@@tysonclark5974We all care Tyson Clark
@@tysonclark5974and I care stfu bozo
The series on Afghanistan is back lets goo. Love this afghan series from you tariq. Keep up the great work brother.
I saw "Afghanistan", and then "Hikma History", and then 18h ago.
I clicked so enthusiastically my controller cracked.
Haha thank you! Much more Afghan content coming this year.
Love Afghanistan 🇦🇫 from Somalia 🇸🇴 they are true warriors like us ❤
LOLOL
I never heard of Somalian warriors , total opposite. Your country has been ruled and vassalized for centuries.
Im not African, yet compared to Ethiopia you guys are just a mere shadow
Didn’t Somalia invade Ethiopia, get their teeth kicked in and then collapse into anarchy?
With my 60 years of life I have practiced trying to learn something new each day. Today Hikma history has assisted in that adventure. This has been very informative and entertaining and you have helped me on my journey of knowledge toward an era of History I have known nothing about... For this I thank you
Wonderful!
The existence of Afghanistan is a symbol of power against colonial powers
The absolute best . So excited every time you upload! I love history about Afghanistan
What a lovely comment!
They trembled when faced by the Sikhs
The sikhs used guerilla warfare and when they fought face to face at the battle of amritsar your baba deep singh Ji's head went flying
Fascinating stuff man! Thanks for the great content.
My pleasure!
Hikma your videos are great, keep it up!
Glad you like them!
Always so excited when you post a new informative history thanks
Great video as always brother.
Much appreciated
Thanks for including the poetry.
Had fun with that part!
I learned so much about the history of my birth place - thank you for the creator of this video.
My pleasure watandar!
Really enjoyed listening to this interesting insight into Afghan history .
Look forward to hearing more.
What a fantastic work done. Great job.
Thank you very much!
Thank you, sir, for posting little known history ie. rarely known in the world in general. As a lifelong student of history, this channel is much appreciated.
So nice of you
@HikmaHistory You, sir, are so welcome. It is I who thank you.
Greetings from New Zealand.
Thanks for the great video @hakimahistory could you please share the source for wonderful images you have used in this video.
So badly needed today are historical and straight forward videos just like this! Names dates and facts to go with relevant and many times beautiful visuals... well played sir! And thank you
Well put together, thx
Always big fan of your work...Amazing job 👏 🙌 ☝🏼
Thank you
Wow Great documentary 💯. You pastho was also very good. Great details and everything. Thanks❤❤❤
informative video and well explained.
Fantastic video, love Afghan history
Thanks!
Impressive. Very well done.
Thank you very much!
Brother make an video on first Afghan empire of India. The Lodhi Afghan empire. Thank you for your great content.
Thanks bro this was great 🇦🇫🤞🏽
I appreciate you!
good video i never knew about any of this history
3:43 Yes, except when Afghanistan was ruled by Habibullah Kalakani, who was the only Tajik king in Afghan history.
Kalakani had control of Kabul and parts of northern Afghanistan he never controlled all of Afghanistan and he was considered a rebel so that’s why he’s not mentioned as a king.
I always come for excellent research with amazing presentation. I am never disappointed.
No AI/video-game clips and no text-to-speech voice-over.
Thank you for your kind words!
Very informative❤
Thank you for your amazing videos. Love how beautifully you pronounce all Pashto names and cities
Peace
Great channel,well done from the uk 🇬🇧
Where do you find all these paintings? They are so beautiful!
Hi as an Afghan I appreciate your work to make this video.only one thing that Ahmad shah Durani was from Qandahar not Herat. Thanks
Long live Pashtuns from a Baloch bro
Baloch are slaves of pushtoons
Thanks for this documentary,Afghanistan has a great history and since one year i've been investigating about Middle East and India....
Strange they claim to be there since pre Alexandrian times but had only two short-lived empires. Their area had been the playground of Persians, Greeks, Huns, Turks . only their difficult terrain saved them from their overlords.
Please do about the Bengal Sultanate 🇧🇩
This earned you a subscriber. I love history and, being your average person growing up in North America, my history education was extremely white and Christian-centered. Hearing these stories of people I'd never heard of is both fascinating and rewarding. Can't wait to see what you do next :)
Iran Tajikistan and Afghanistan don't have separate history and any ruler has changed or who took the power was an internal affair not from an external force.
I wonder how the camels coped with the recoil from the small cannons mounted on their backs.
We Hazaras did a strategical mistake to not take control over our lands, consequence of this is today’s situation of us Hazaras, genocide, occupation of our lands and living with “Afghans “ terrorists.
And the sad thing is no one talks about hazara. You would think how much turkey likes to show turkic brotherhood they would at least talk about hazaras
@@ShubhamMishrabro well we lost our power after pashtoon occupation of Hazaristan. If you don’t have power then people don’t care, even our own blood like Uzbek, Turkmen or Turkey…
A sad but true statement
@@mahdihassani3196 true no one cares for hazaras and the way Taliban is operating i don't think anything good is coming out. Just like yazidi of iraq the hazaras are irrelevant to world
@@mahdihassani3196why arent u hazara shias helping iran fight with isrhell?
@@shahmoneyshahmoney9250 why should we do that?
Is iran our country? No
Is Palestinians Hazara? No
We don’t have any ties with Iran or Palestinians!
Hikma history gets it innnn
Very neat docco! Loving the upbeat music too ^_^
Many thanks mate!
Great video as always 🙏🏼
Thank you my man!
The poem he wrote to Afghanistan is so beautiful I’d never heard that before, the fact that half of Pashtuns now sell out and call themselves Pakistanis is an insult to this great heritage
There pakistani pashtuns that hate the Pakistani army and government more than the afghans, so depends on what education they've recieved, plenty of pathans in pakistan who are sell outs due to propaganda.
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That was great 👍 thanks
Can someone tell where is this man from?
Afghanistan
I love the history, Blessed Be.
Nader Shah carried out a shameful massacre in Delhi.
Nothing shameful about it. The citizens of Dehli should not have attacked the Afsharid army who occupied Dehli because the Mughals refused to hand over Hottali chiefs.
@@K55365the Palestinians shouldn't revolt israel occupation otherwise their massacre is justified? Sounds good to you by your logic?
@@ShubhamMishrabro Are Palestinians harbouring people that commited crimes? No.
@@K55365 and no one was harbouring anyone in delhi too. If you think killing all people for actions of few justifies it then it tells me a lot about you and your ideology
@@ShubhamMishrabro read the history, the Mughals were harbouring Hottakis and refused to hand them over to Nader Shah.
One of the major contribution of Ahmed Shah was to defeat a very large army of Marathas.
The biggest mistake afghans did was not focus on Ranjit Singh
Hotaks:
Do a small video on the Hotak tribe.
They destroyed the mighty Persian Empire and defeated the the Ottoman army as well?
They were the mightiest armies at that time?
Like someone defeating America and Russia.
Impossible to imagine.
Coming up in the next few months!
And then they got utterly destroyed by Nader Shah
@K55365 Losing to the greatest general of the era is no shame...
I would like to add that Afghan (Pashtun) comes from the word Aspaghan or Apighan which means the noble horse rider We always existed but we are considered Iranic ( not Persian but related)
No it’s not in history, in our oral and Ahmad’s shah baba gave the historically accurate accounts of the word Afghan coming from the grandson of the Prophet Suleiman AS Malik Afghana that’s common knowledge in Pashtun history
I really enjoy these historical videos not told from the perspective of europe. While its easy to see europeans viewing the world as revolving around their politics, in the times and places of history things were very much local affairs to the inhabitants
Something interesting to note is that after shah shoja the Sikh / British vassal was killed dost mohamad khan and maharaja sher Singh of the Sikh empire became allies
Yes that always fascinated me!
@@HikmaHistory I guess the afghans and Sikhs saw more in common with one another at that point. Even dost mohamad if he wanted to could’ve sided with the British in the second Anglo Sikh war to retake old land but he decided to help the Khalsa, same people who destroyed his own empire instead. Even a lot of tribal chiefs sided with the Khalsa against the English. Truly shows how interesting history can be.
What dreams are you living kid 😂😂😂 dost muhammad khan was a unknown man who rose to prominence through his abilities and he was not harmed by sicks he died naturally and also tha sudhans of kashmir was tha reason tha sicks lost both anglo wars against british
Likewise tha tanolis though being a small group become tha very major player in tha downfall of sick confederacy in less then 48 years
These bengali troops sudhan soilders and tha tanolis along side britishs put an end to tha sick confederacy once and for all.
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Next time get tha correct information.
@@umaraziz8274 bruh? Where are you reading this from. You legit didn’t cite one source. Smartest tribal mf
Excellent video. Wonderful artwork on display throughout this video. Such a illustrious history that not many know about. Thank you. I think you are right in that it takes more than being warriors to maintain an empire, how long can an empire survive on raiding and looting. The video in a nutshell demonstrates the cureable sickness that muslims world wide have suffered from for at least the past 250 years - disunity, no common goal just self interest and / or tribal interest.The ending is quite poignant and indicative of the core issue in that we contemplate the quaran and Islam when we are old, when youth and vigour has departed. It should contemplated when we have the exuberance of youth and the greater ability to persuade and unify.
Thanks Majid!
Forgotten but never forgotten
Pear of Pearls!❤❤❤
Interesting
Your thumbnail implies that the Afghans (Pashtuns) had other empires other than the Durani empire in their history, which is false.
What about the Hotak or Lodhi Empires?
@@HikmaHistory The Lodi sultanate was more like a regional kingdom than an empire. The Hotaks did proclaim themselves emperors (Shahanshahs) of Iran, but they only ever effectively controlled a fraction of their claimed territories. So, the Hotak monarchs were only emperors in name, and their "empire" a very short-lived one that was killed in its cradle.
Lodhi, Sur , Karrani, hotaki, azad khan empires . Detable Khilji aswell/ also bahmani sultanate. Although throughout historic text they were referred to as Turko Afghan. These are the mostly Pashtun related empires . There were numerous other empires formed by Turks / Persians / Tajiks from present day Afghanistan. You need to do more research
@@Alexander-lb1on You seem not to know the definition of empire. As I wrote in my previous reply here to HakimaHistory (which I'm guessing he deleted), among all those that you mentioned only the extremely short-lived Suri state can perhaps be considered a legitimate Pashtun empire (which I admit I didn't know about before reading your comment). All the others were relatively small regional sultanates/kingdoms. I think it's an stretch to consider the short-lived Hotak state an actual empire, since at their height they only ever controlled a small fraction of the lands they claimed. And if you had paid attention, you would notice that I'm only talking about empires run by PASHTUNS. Even though the Khilji dynasty had risen out of Afghan lands, they were no less Turkic than the Qajars, Safavids, or Afshars (who we don't ever call "Perso-Turkic").
Where you get these paintings
Afghan..Abdali.. English hipthali.. this is also secand successful empire of afghan after firest hipthali empire
Better title suggestion: How the Afghans made for terrible awful simply no good neighbours to India. :)
Great video as always, tho.
I started reading your comment seriously then realised it's you, couldn't expect maturity from you.
Thanks brah.
The good news is that they are no longer India's contagious neighbours.
The British, in their great Wisdom created a filter, and now they are enjoying the pleasure of being direct neighbours of the afghans, and vice versa.
The results are visible to the whole world.
And we are enjoying the circus.
Make video on Khanate of Kalat, modern day Balochistan…
Always learn something!
Excellent video
Watched it 3 times.
When ‘Afghans’ ruled the world.
The portraits you use are excellent. It gives humanity to those people.
Art is important.
Much appreciated!
The world😮? Are you sure?
The world?
Some.very ni e and true facts as a seek tho one minor event u forgot during timur s esrly years the death of jahan khan and his explusi. Explusion during that period much respect to all brave hearts may they use there bravery for the good of humanity . Keep up the honest and true brave heart way you present things even when they compliment an opposite force a true sign of mard
My brother in that sense most definently💙🙏☝️💙
Mundeep SINGH
MOHAHBHAT FATHE
Zulm Maar
AHkaaL Sahaiyee
Amazing video about a great hero of not just Afghans but all Muslims of south asia.
The Word Afghan is specifically used for Pashtun Tribal people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
You mean how they LOOTED and were eventually caught and got rid off....leaving behind some unwanted garbage ?
*How they conquered
@@Historyteller346look at their condition today 😂
@@hke.4475Afghanistan has been independent for just 3 years after 42 years of continuous warfare. What do you expect to see at the moment ? Use your brain next time...🤦
@@Historyteller346ah yes Afghanistan was the richest country before the war eh
@@hke.4475When did i say they were the richest ? Stop trying to make me say things i never said. Afghanistan was not poor or rich before the wars but it was doing well and developing rapidly before the wars started...
You missed one interesting part of history. That Ahmed Shah Duranni nearly went to war with Qing Dynasty China.
I know there was a correspondence between the two but an actual war?
@@HikmaHistory No I meant, they had nearly gone to war, but there was no war.
For the algorithm
And also brother south asian turk iran afg punjab we have so many similirtoes lang culture word etc. I have most definently understood there is a defiente old relationship like cousin tribes thatnhave been waring with each other. Oh you also forgot zaman shah sforces being repeled by young shere punjab runJeet (battle field winner) singh
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As I live in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border in kpk I totally disagree with this map which where I live is showing of indian territory that is totally wrong
Abe sale,kpk indian territory hai
Love Afghans brothers from Bharāt (India) 🇮🇳
Love from Aryavārta (Hindustan) 🇮🇳
We love great india we are now brothers
4:00 *says india, but includes pakistan, while excluding Bangladesh and nepal*
controversy any% speedrun
Pushtuns never had anything other than a fleeting glory
Just like everyone...
@@Historyteller346nope 😂
@@arnavpandey5386When you don't have any counter-arguments :
Better to have glory than the whole world but you wouldn't know the feeling the pashtun have because your people couldn't deliver it
@@c0detearz320 I know the feeling that pushtun have when they bag Punjabis for money and collect their garbage 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just a question; if you guys call Nadir Shah a great man after he looted and caused so much grief to India, are we Indians allowed to call Hitler a great man for what he did? After all, both are historical figures, aren’t they? Or is it devastating only when the victims are white?
Don’t Indians call Marathas great when they killed 300 thousand people in Bengal
Jews arent white
Hitler wanted the afghans to support him kept calling us the ancient aryans and so the afghans of the time rejected him, afghans got more choice than 99% of the world, we don't care for a weak ethnics opinion.
@@hke.4475*400.000 people
@@c0detearz320yes Afghans whose womens got sandwiched from all sides and give birth to mixed babies is what is known as Aryans... Today's Afghans are semetic people not Aryans. Nor there's any Aryan culture left in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a land of semetic belief.
Pre-british afghan culture is extremely interesting imo.
Yes it is, Hotak video coming soon!
Graveyard of Empires
20:36 is not entirely true. There were many pitched battles abdali fought with the Sikhs such as Chenab, and Lahore in which huge armies of the afghans were destroyed or routed by the Khalsa, such as the aforementioned battle of Chenab as recorded in the book “Sikh history in Persian sources” by irfan habib mentions how a huge army of abdalis was beaten by charat Singh (grandfather of maharaja Ranjit Singh) in a pitched battle along the river Chenab.
Nice joke lol
@@HekmatRokhshani literally read the source I mentioned. Don’t be stupid buddy.
Ye we its true but in the end both sikhs and afagns kept fighting while the white man won in the end
state ur home city and tribe pakizzztanhi boy@@HekmatRokhshani
Indian sources on Indian history are largely inaccurate and can not be taken seriously as they lie compulsively in favour of Indians.
Durani or Abdali is title given .Actual tribe of Ahmed Shah is SADOZAI.
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Now Pashtuns will never loot Punnab and India ever now.
British looted you whilst we defeated them, better know who daddy is boy
😂😂😂😂😂who is Our Bugistan father now just tell me American before British used to be which was defeated by our forefathers ...your still got command from London till this day I am from Pakistan you can't say I am wrong
I don't get it. Why Naser al-Din Shah Qajar did not offer to buy Herat from Emir Dost Muhammad Khan? After all, everyone likes money. And more money means the stronger capability to buy more resources and hire more peoples. And yes, I know that he just lost a war in the Caucasus against Russia. But if he made a deal with the British and the Afghans to purchase Herat instead of an outright annexing it by conquest, his country's relations with Britain might be better and the Emirate of Kabul might even entered into an alliance with Iran to oppose Russia together in the Great Game between Britain and Russia.
The problem is that Afghans can't be bought. They would rather live in poverty than have their country divided or subjugated by an outside power...
@@Historyteller346 This is why I added the British into the context as well. If the Afghans are unwilling to sell Herat, the British might be willing to accept such a deal. And the Shah can do this without actually talking with the Afghans' government at the time.
@@lerneanlionThe Afghans would have refused and war would take place...
@yteller346 Okay, at this point. I don't get it. They controlled so many cities in their realm already. Giving up Herat to Iran does not mean the end of the world at all and the relations between Iran and the Afghans may even improved. Plus, they can used the money gained from this purchase to buy more weapons and hiring more peoples into the government and the military. What can they gained by keeping it? If it's because it happened to be the capital at the time, then have the capital relocated to cities like Kabul instead.
@@lerneanlionI already told you. The Afghans would rather live in poverty and fight costly wars instead of losing even just one inch of land...
Brother if you could broth look into the fact that i have uncovered which i m sure have been hidden by evil sources brit . That we all had a conection to Assyria and there empire was much further when we are showne by western sources all the way to Punjab including afg iran etc.
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who says they lost it...... they still cant and havnt been conquered..good for them
4:00 Its interesting you referred to Pakistan as part of India but not Afghanistan as part of Persia.
The pro-Afghan bias is clear in your videos.
He literally includes it as part of Persia 8 seconds later on the map you’re way too sensitive and emotion
@@giga9941 no he didnt. Thats just map of two empires not geographical locations. Youre too heedless to see whats right under your nose.
Secondly it isnt just this video, Hikmas pro-afghan bias is evident in sevral ogher video too
افغانستان... آریا. مردم شریف و متمدن.
Afghans are known for their love for peace. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
nice joke.
You never had an empire
Alhamdulillah, Punjab was the Graveyard of Durrani Pashtuns, and Inshallah, the great Nation of Punjab will be United one day under the Banner of Panjabiat
Hahahahha
As a Sikh we would support a multi faith Punjab
@@EquatorMarsupial won't happen without go ahead of British, British aided ranjit Singh in the past so you really need that white wash to call you martial... you neeeeeeed it
@@c0detearz320 Sikhs have always bested you Mussalmans in battle.
Battle of Sagrahi
Look it up
Shah Shuja wept like a girl when M Ranjit Singh took the Kohinoor off him….pussy