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Frontier Folk Of The Afghan Border And Beyond, Lilian A. Starr

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The book gives a detailed description of the Frontier history and its people. Some twenty different tribes, their lives and customs are covered by the author. The author lived in a mission hospital on the Frontier was providing medical services to people of various backgrounds.

The Hero Of Herat: A Frontier Biography In Romantic Form (1914), Maud Diver

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Herat, Afghanistan, fiction by Maud Diver.

The Judgment Of The Sword : The Tale Of The Kabul Tragedy, And Of The Part Played Therein By Major Eldred Pottinger, The Hero Of Herat, Maud Diver

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It is the tale of the Kabul tragedy during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and of the part played therein by Major Eldred Pottinger, the hero of Herat.

Gun-Running And The Indian North-West Frontier, Arnold Keppel

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Gun-running and the Indian north-west frontier, written by the Hon. Arnold Keppel, includes 20 illustrations and 2 maps. The tribes and the tribal areas of the north-west frontier and the relationship between Afghanistan and Great Britain is covered by the author.

The Kingdom Of Afghanistan: A Historical Sketch, George Passman Tate

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An account of Afghanistan, the races, tribe and their relationship with their neighboring countries. The map of Afghanistan included in this book is intended as a key to the positions of the more important localities mentioned in the text and the country situation with its neighbors.

Frontier Warfare: A Series Of Ten Lectures, Frontier

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The book is a series of the following ten tecture:

General Principles; Frontier warfare camp; Measures for the security of a camp; Picquests protecting a camp; Marches; Protection on the march; Attack - defence - storming a fort; Pursuits and retreats, Base and line of communications - convoys; orders

A Dictionary Of The Pathan Tribes On The North-West Frontier Of India, General Staff Army Headquarters, India

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A dictionary of the the Pashtun tribes prepare by the General Staff Army Headquarters, India.

Publisher - Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India

Bactria From The Earliest Times To The Extinction Of Bactrio-Greek Rule In The Punjab, Hugh George Rawlinson

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No abstract provided.

Letters On The Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission Of 1896 (1909), A. H. Mcmahon, Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission

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Written to the English (Calcutta) and Times of India (Bombay) by their special correspondent with the Mission.

Around Afghanistan, Henri Bouillane De Lacoste

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Around Afghanistan is written by Major de Bouillane de Lacoste; with a preface by Georges Leygues; translated from the French by J. G. Anderson.

The Frontiers Of Baluchistan: Travels On The Borders Of Persia And Afghanistan, George Passman Tate

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The author furnishes us with many choice sketches of the desert and desert life painted in life-like colors. While one portion of the work deals with the vast desert which lies between Quetta and Persia, the other and larger portion describes that strangely interesting country of Seistan, which nature has bounteously endowed with every gift of water and soil.

Upon the many interesting incidents which marked the history of the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission, 1895-96, and the Seistan Arbitration Mission, 1903-5, with which Mr. Tate, as Survey Officer, traversed the various portions of the country dealt with in this book, he …

With The Afghans, Claud Herbert Alwyn Field

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Contents: The Afghans -- Afghan customs and characteristics -- Peshawar city and cantonment -- The religion of the Pathans -- Mission work -- Preaching across the Frontier -- An Afghan heretic -- Two soldiers of the guides -- The Frontier rising of 1897 -- Converts and enquirers -- Persian influences on the Afghans -- Afghan poets -- Afghan fables

Under The Absolute Amir, Frank A. Martin

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Contents:

On the road.--Kabul.--Manners and customs.--Amir Abdur Rahman.--Prisons and prisoners.--Tortures and methods of execution.--Life of Europeans in Kabul.--Soldiers and arms.--Trades and commerce.--Geological conditions of the country.--Religion.--Political situation.--Road from Kabul to Peshawar.

Illustrated by the author's drawings and photographs, and by other photographs

With Roberts To Candahar, A Tale Of The Third Afghan War, F. S. Brereton

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Fiction - about the first Anglo-Afghan war

Report Of Archaeological Survey Work In The North-West Frontier Province And Baluchistan, For The Period From January 2nd, 1904 To March 31, 1905, Aurel Stein

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This report is an archeological survey of the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan. Interesting chapters of the report are those dealing with Dr. Stein's visit to Mahaban and Banj in Gadun territory, an expedition which had archaeological results of the first value. The author has included a number of illustrations, plans and maps in this report.

Through The Unknown Pamirs; The Second Danish Pamir Expedition, 1898-99, Ole Olufsen

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Tajiks - Pamir - Description and travel Asia, Central - Description and travel

The Middle Eastern Question Or, Some Political Problems Of Indian Defence, Valentine Chirol

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Based on a series of letters written for the Times.

Chapters pertaining to Afghanistan include:

Borderland of Afghanistan; Afghanistan as a military state; Great Britain, Russia and Afghanistan; and the North-East frontier of India

Lord Curzon In India: 1898-1903 (1903), H. Caldwell Lipsett

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Contents:

Lord Curzon's aims -- Russia, Afghanistan and Persia -- The independent tribes -- The new frontier province -- Famine administration -- Irrigation and railways -- British rule in India -- Miscellaneous reforms -- The best viceroy since Lord Lawrence. Includes an appendix containing Lord Curzon's speech justifying the Delhi Durbar.

The Middle Eastern Question, Or, Some Political Problems Of Indian Defence, Valentine Chirol, Sir

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Partial Contents Include:

British trade and Russian competition - - The future of Seistan -- The Russian position in eastern Persia -- The borderland of Afghanistan -- Afghanistan as a military state, and the North-East Frontier of India.

Leaves From The Diaries Of A Soldier And Sportsman During Twenty Years' Service In India, Afghanistan, Egypt And Other Countries, 1865-1885, Montagu Gilbert Gerard

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The book is drawn from journals kept by the author during his almost forty years of military service, chiefly in India. Chapters in the book includes: Abyssinia and Guzerat; Central India; and Afghan War.

Afghanistan And Its Late Amir: With Some Account Of Baluchistan, Christian Literature Society For India

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Afghanistan and its late Amir: with some account of Baluchistan, compiled from Bellew, the Encyclopedia Britanica, Hunter's gazetteer of India, the authobiography of Abdur Rahman, Wheeler's the Amir Abdur Rahman, the Stateman's year book, etc.

Book includes a map of the area and several illustrations.

A Short Sketch, Historical And Traditional, Of The Musalman Races Found In Sind, Baluchistan And Afghanistan, Sadik Ali Sher Ali Ansari

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Musalman races found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, their genealogical sub-division, together with an ethnological and ethnographical account.

The Man Who Was, Rudyard Kipling

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book consisted of three chapters:

The man who was-- The man who would be king -- Moti Guj--mutineer

The Second Afghan War, 1878-79-80: Its Causes, Its Conduct And Its Consequences (Vol. 1), Henry Bathurst Hanna

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The book reflected the change which had taken place in British point of view, and the amount of additional labor entailed upon them by that change may be gathered from the fact that the two-thirds of the present volume deal exclusively with the first branch of the British subject, the cause of the War.

A Dictionary Of The Pathan Tribes On The North-West Frontier Of India, Quarter Master General In India, Intelligence Branch

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Publisher - Calcutta: Office of the Suptintendent, Government Printing, India

The Risings On The North-West Frontier, Pioneer Press

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A complete narrative, with specially prepared maps of the various risings of the Frontier Tribes in the Tochi Valley, the Swat Valley, the Country of the Mohmands and Mamunds, and the Country of the Afridis and Orakzai; and of he several punitive campaigns undertaken against these tribes, as well as the two minor expeditions sent against the Utman Khels and the Bunerwals: the whole covering a period extending from the middle of June 1897 to the end of January, 1898.

Compiled from the Special War Correspondence of the "Pioneer".

Russian Hosts And English Guests In Central Asia, Woolrych J. T. Perowne

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A journey made in November and December (1897) over the Transcaspian Military Railway in Russian Central Asia. Until quite recently the very greatest difficulties were placed in the way of any foreigner who tried to penetrate the region which is bordered roughly on the west by the Caspian, on the north by Khiva and the Turkestan Desert, on the east by the great mountain walls of Afghanistan, Turkestan, and India, and on the south by Persia and Afghanistan. The Book is the author's descriptions of travels made to these regions.

The Southern Borderlands Of Afghanistan, A. H. Mcmahon, Captain

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Paper read at the Royal Geographical Society, February 22, 1897.

The Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission started in March, 1894, and by June, 1896, succeeded in laying down the boundary line to Persia. The length of this line from the Gomal to Persia is over 800 miles.

Includes a map of a section of the boundary line between Afghanistan and Baluchistan, Geographical Journal, 1897.

Heroes Of The Chitral Siege, Alice F. Jackson,

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No abstract provided.

Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical Sketch, John Adye Sir

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First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839-41; Events leading to the Second Anglo-Afghan War; and Frontier policy since the Second Afghan war, including expedition to Chiral is covered in this publication.