Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir 'Abd Al-Rahman KhanThis is an authoritative study of the administrative, social, and economic structure of Afghanistan during a decisive stage in its history. The period covered the reign of the Iron Amir Rahman Khan was in many ways the beginning of modern Afghanistan as a cohesive nation. Although Afghanistan had emerged as an entity in 1747, it was actually under the Amir that its borders were established, its internal unification completed, and the modern concept of