 Out of anti-Russian strategic interests, the British assisted the Afghan conquest of the Uzbek Khanates, giving weapons to the Afghans and backing the Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan  , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land ; British literature from the period demonized the Uzbeks . Amanullah came to power just as the entente between Russia and Britain broke down following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
<coherence>  Out of anti-Russian strategic interests, the British assisted the Afghan conquest of the Uzbek Khanates, giving weapons to the Afghans and backing the Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan  , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land ; British literature from the period demonized the Uzbeks . Amanullah came to power just as the entente between Russia and Britain broke down following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
 Out of anti-Russian strategic interests, the British assisted the Afghan conquest of the Uzbek Khanates, giving weapons to the Afghans and backing the Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land . Amanullah came to power just as the entente between Russia and Britain broke down following the Russian Revolution of 1917.