Photos of “male-dressed” women during the Qajar era

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In 1856 Britain prevented Homeland from reasserting control over Herat, which had been part of Homeland in Safavid times but had been under non-Persian rule since the mid-18th century. Britain supported the city’s incorporation into Afghanistan; a country Britain helped create in order to extend eastward the buffer between its Indian territories and Russia’s expanding empire. Britain also extended its control to other areas of the Persian Gulf during the 19th century.

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