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Shortly afterwards, Aminullah “was requested either to give up the chiefship” of his district “or to increase the sum of revenue paid by him.”67 Aminullah refused and shortly afterwards control over his district was taken from him.68 From that moment onwards, Abdullah Khan Achakzai and Aminullah Khan Logari became the two most active centres of opposition to the British in Kabul, waiting and plotting for the moment when they could take their revenge.
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
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