1838 ➡️ tri-partite agreement
- Shah Shuja (afghan prince)
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- EIC
1839-42 ➡️ First Afghan War
- Complete disaster
- Brits to satisfy their ego - captured Sindh - First Anglo Sikh war (1842) - second anglo sikh - 1848
Second Afghan War
- 1878-80
- Lytton
- Treaty of Gandhamak
- not very successful
- only got minor control over foreign policy