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Book/Printed MaterialCabool: a personal narrative of a journey to, and residence in that city, in the years 1836, 7, and 8. Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 is an account of an 18-month voyage undertaken by Sir Alexander Burnes and three companions by order of the governor-general of India. The purpose of the journey was to survey the Indus River and the territories adjoining it, with the aim of opening up...
- Contributor: Burnes, Alexander
- Date: 1843
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Book/Printed MaterialSind revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian army; railroads; part, present, and future, etc The English explorer and author Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) began his long and adventurous career in India, where he arrived in 1842 to join the 18th regiment of Bombay infantry as a young commissioned officer. In 1844 Burton's regiment was posted to Sind, the province located in present-day southeastern Pakistan, at that time only recently annexed by the British. Burton lived in Sind...
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1877
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Book/Printed MaterialCollection of the Treatises of al-Ṭūsī. Naseer al-Din (or al-Naseer) al-Tusi (1201--74 AD, 597--672 AH) was a Muslim Persian polymath. He was born in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran. Al-Tusi witnessed the great invasion of the Islamic world by the Mongols, whom he later joined. He was said to have been in the company of Hulegu Khan when the latter destroyed the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in 1258 AD. Al-Tusi,...
- Contributor: Sī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1938-01-01
- Resource: - 384 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCabool : a personal narrative of a journey to, and residence in that city, in the years 1836, 7, and 8 Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 is an account of an 18-month voyage undertaken by Sir Alexander Burnes and three companions by order of the governor-general of India. The purpose of the journey was to survey the Indus River and the territories adjoining it, with the aim of opening up...
- Contributor: Burnes, Alexander
- Date: 1843-01-01
- Resource: - 446 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialScenes and adventures in Affghanistan. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan is a personal account, by a soldier in the army of the British East India Company, of his experiences during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42). The author, Sergeant-Major William Taylor, tells of the march of his regiment from the vicinity of Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in India to the borders of Afghanistan. In the preface he states: "Mine is a...
- Contributor: Taylor, William
- Date: 1847-01-01
- Resource: - 254 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA grammar of the Pukkhto or Pukshto language, on a new and improved system, combining brevity with practical utility, and including exercises and dialogues, intended to facilitate the acquisition of the colloquial. Henry Walter Bellew (1834-92) was a surgeon and medical officer in the Indian Army who over the course of a long career undertook a number of political missions in Afghanistan and wrote several books on Indian and Afghan subjects. His A Grammar of the Pukkhto or Pukshto Language is a Pushto textbook written during his service in Peshawar. It was intended for use by...
- Contributor: Bellew, H. W. (Henry Walter) - Bellew, Henry Walter
- Date: 1867-01-01
- Resource: - 169 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAriana antiqua. Ariana Antiqua is an important early scholarly treatment of ancient coins and other antiquities discovered in Afghanistan and adjacent regions of present-day Pakistan. Much of the work focuses on the discoveries of Charles Masson (1800-53), a British traveler and explorer who in the 1830s, working in the vicinity of Kabul and Peshawar, amassed a collection of more than 80,000 silver, gold, and bronze coins...
- Contributor: East India Company - Wilson, H. H. (Horace Hayman) - Masson, Charles
- Date: 1841-01-01
- Resource: - 545 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAmong the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier, a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches, Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier is a first-hand account by Dr. Theodore Leighton Pennell of the 16 years that he spent as a medical missionary at the medical mission station at Bannu (in present-day Pakistan) on the Northwest Frontier of India. The book was first published in 1908; presented here is the fourth edition of 1927. Pennell begins with a chapter...
- Contributor: Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)
- Date: 1927-01-01
- Resource: - 351 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAfghanistan and the Anglo-Russian dispute; Theophilus Francis Rodenbough (1838-1912) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Trevilian Station (Virginia) in June 1864. After his retirement from the Army in 1870, Rodenbough wrote several books on military themes. He composed Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute very rapidly in the spring of 1885, as...
- Contributor: Rodenbough, Theo[Philus] F[Rancis] - Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis)
- Date: 1885-01-01
- Resource: - 165 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA review of the political situation in Central Asia, Muhammad ʻAbdulghani Jalalpuri (1864-1943), better known as Dr. Abdul Ghani, was an Indian Muslim reformist and educator who was active at the Afghan court in the early 20th century. He was the English secretary to Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901) and Amir Habibullah Khan (reigned 1901-19). Abdul Ghani's A Review of the Political Situation in Central Asia was written after his return to...
- Contributor: ʻabdulg̲h̲anī
- Date: 1921-01-01
- Resource: - 368 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAn account of the kingdom of Caubul, Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was an administrator with the East India Company who in 1808 was sent by the British Indian authorities on a mission to Afghanistan for the purpose of concluding an agreement with the Afghan ruler, Shah Shuja Durrani. Suspicious of British intentions and engaged in a domestic power struggle, Shah Shuja refused to allow Elphinstone and his party to proceed beyond Peshawar...
- Contributor: Elphinstone, Mountstuart
- Date: 1815-01-01
- Resource: - 737 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCauses of the Afghan war, Causes of the Afghan War is a compilation of documents assembled by the Afghan Committee of the British Parliament to examine the events leading up to the Second Anglo-Afghan War, which began in November 1878 and lasted until September 1880. The committee was comprised of members of Parliament from all parties who were critical of the secrecy with which the British government had initiated...
- Contributor: Afghan Committee (Great Britain) - Afghan Committee
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: - 380 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or Language of the Afgháns ... together with translations from the articles of war, &c., and remarks on the language, literature, and descent of the Afghán ... Paged contiuously. Title varies slightly.
- Contributor: Raverty, H. G. (Henry George)
- Date: 1855-01-01