mashin

What yo 'mashin' down a half-acre o 'berries fer? "

Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

See Chapter 4 for more attention to the mashin khana, and below for a state document dealing with the movements of one of those European technocratic confidantes of Abd al-Rahman.

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

See Chapter 5 for more on the impact of European minting machinery in Kabul, and later for attention to the mashin khana.

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

This particular cash dispersal of British Indian rupees was destined to be re-coined with minting machinery recently imported from Europe and installed in the Kabul workshops or mashin khana, which was an exceptional use of subsidy funds.

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

Quality, not quantity, was the challenge of arms production at the mashin khana.

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

Secondly, the "engine" referenced is the mashin khana or Durrani state workshop complex in Kabul, and "tartuqi" carries a number of connotations including "wheeled" and "heavy."

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

Dr. May Schinasi has been very generous in making images of the mashin khana from her photography library available to me, and my regret at not being able to include more images from the Schinasi Collection in this book is partially ameliorated by the knowledge of Dr. Schinasi's enthusiasm for making the photographic and textual resources she has relating to Afghanistan available to scholars.

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

Instead of functioning as a socially integrative institution, the mashin khana contributed to the growing gap in state-society relations in nineteenth-century Afghanistan.

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

The subsidy funds were in many instances recycled back into British Indian and European hands through Abd al-Rahman's purchase of heavy industrial equipment and technical expertise for his most consequential product, the mashin khana, a Persian compound literally translated as machine house, meaning in practice the Durrani state industrial workshops.

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

This image of the mashin khana is notable for referencing the use of steam power which was incorporated into older production processes involving ropes and pulleys.

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