Wednesday 9 March 2016

Courtyard of Wali Sher Ali Khan's Zenana, by Sir Benjamin Simpson

This photograph of the ornately decorated courtyard of a palace in Kandahar is from an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The photograph most likely was taken during the British occupation of Kandahar, which lasted from September 1880 to April 1881. It shows the exterior of the zenana, the women’s quarters of the palace of Sher Ali Khan, who was amir of Afghanistan for most of the period 1863–79. Sher Ali Khan was the son of Dōst Moḥammad Khān, founder of the Barakzai Dynasty in Afghanistan.

Source: Library of Congress

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