Kabul University and Political Dynamics in Afghanistan, 1964–73

Abstract

Kabul University was the first institution to undergo rapid politicisation during the Constitutional Decade (1964–73) of Afghanistan. The article explores how this educational institution, in a country with a very high rate of illiteracy, which also did not have a long tradition of modern education, soon transformed into a political hotbed which led to the emergence of Kabul University as the centre of Afghanistan’s political struggles in the 1960s and early 1970s.