Ethno-religious dynamics and the emergence of the (Secret Unity Party) in Afghanistan in the late 1940s

Faridullah Bezhan

Central Asian Survey, 2012, vol. 31, issue 4, 445-464

Abstract: The Afghanistani government's discriminatory policies against its ethno-religious minorities from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II brought widespread resentment, which resulted in many local revolts. After the war, these took on a different dimension and led to the founding of an underground political party, Seri Itehad (Secret Unity). The party was different from the other political parties of the time because its goal was to foment an uprising to overthrow the monarchy and so establish a republic. This paper explores why and how the party emerged, and how the unique characteristics of the party's two co-founders, who had little in common in terms of socio-political and cultural backgrounds, shaped the aims, approach, organization, membership and operation of the party. It also examines the consequences of the uprising.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2012.738850

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