‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier

Published:2023-06-07 Issue:5-6 Volume:66 Page:707-741
ISSN:0022-4995
Container-title:Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
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Short-container-title:J. Econ. Soc. Hist. Orient

Author:

Eijk Juul¹^ORCID,Khan Timur²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. PhD Candidate at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University the Netherlands

2. PhD Candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History, Leiden University the Netherlands

Abstract

Abstract In 1763, Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī sent an embassy to the Qianlong emperor. The envoy caused offence by refusing to prostrate himself. Still, the Qing court fêted his embassy. It seemed the beginning of a promising relationship, but the two empires never had contact again. The Qing court presented the embassy as a tributary mission, but in the pragmatic world of Qing frontier policy, contact with the Durrānīs was deliberately avoided. Why did no relationship develop? This attitude stemmed from Qianlong’s distrust of Central Asian rulers, and his understanding of the Afghans not as a tributary, but a rival imperial power.

Publisher

Brill

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science,History

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