Ousted Afghan ruler Dost Mohammed had sought refuge in the wilds of the Hindu Kush with an influential local resistance leader, Mir Masjidi Khan.

Closely followed by the British, Dost Mohammad is driven to extremities and arrested in Bukhara.

The Afghans, however, will tolerate neither a foreign occupation nor a king imposed on them by a foreign power, and insurrections erupt.

Dost Mohammad escapes from prison and returns to Afghanistan to lead his partisans against the British.

In a battle at Parwan on November 2, 1840, Dost Mohammad gains the upper hand, but the next day he surrenders to the British in Kabul.

He is deported to India with the greater part of his family.