Cabool

Cabool is particularly celebrated for its fruit, which is exported in great abundance to India.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

There are but three Jewish families left in Cabool, the wreck of a hundred which it could last year boast.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Would Scinde, Bundelkund, and Gwalior have dared to resist us but for the example afforded them in Cabool, that British troops could be not only beaten, but annihilated?

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

In Cabool, there are eight great houses of agency belonging to these people, who are quite separate from the other Hindoo inhabitants.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The wine of Cabool has a flavour not unlike Madeira; and it cannot be doubted, that a very superior description might be produced in this country with a little care.

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[T] he material used in the Cabool coinage is almost entirely Company's Rupees about 22,00,000 of the latter having been melted down last year when the number of Cabool Rupees struck was 27,65,612 and the quantity of bullion brought to the mint equal in weight to only Company's Rupees 85,258.

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Again to reduce 94½ Company's Rupees weight of pure silver to the standard of the Cabool Rupee 25 Company's Rupees are added no other alloy is used and the mass weighing 119½ Company's Rupees is coined into Cabool Rupees 147½.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The people of Cabool convert grape into more uses than in most other countries.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

This archival file corresponds to p. 8 in Burnes, et al., in the chapter titled "On the Persian Faction in Cabool."

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The Armenians and Jews of Cabool have, therefore, fled to other lands, as they had no means of support but in distilling spirits and wine.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008