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The Burqa Comes Off, Louis Dupree

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This publication is one of a continuing series on current developments in world affairs prepared by American Universities Field Staff correspondents. It is distributed by the AUFS as a contribution to the American fun of information on significant foreign events, trends, and personalities. This particular report discusses a period of time when women in Afghanistan removed face coverings during the week long celebration of Afghan independence.

Final Design Report On Kajakai Dam, Arghandab Dam, And Boghra Canal Projects, International Engineering Company., Morrison-Knudsen Afghanistan, Inc.

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The purpose of this Report on the Kajakai Dam, Arghandab Dam, and the Boghra Canal .Projects is to describe the design criteria, preliminary and final designs and to present the "as constructed" drawings of the completed structures.

Education In Afghanistan: During The Last Half-Century, Royal Afghan Ministry Of Education, Afghanistan

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Educational statistics in Afghanistan during the first half of the 20^th century

Siraj Al-Tavarikh, Fayz Muhammad Katib

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Covers the history of Afghanistan from, 17th-20th century. It includes historical events and biographical descriptions of Afghan kings and rulers. The book is in Persian language, in two volumes.

Published in Kabul: Matbaah-i Hurufi-i Dal al-Saltanah, 1331 (1952)

Five Year Post-War Development Plan For The North-West Frontier Province And Tribal Areas, North-West Frontier Province (Pakistan). Department Of Post-War Planning.

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364 pages : illustrations, maps (some folded) ; 34 cm. 3rd edition.

Alexandre En Afghanistan : Piece En Quatre Actes, AḥMad ʻAlī KuhzāD

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No abstract provided.

The Arab Conquests In Central Asia, H.A. R. Gibb

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The Arab expedition in Central Asia in 642. Herat and Badghis submitted without a blow, and the first serious check to their advance was met in the Murghab valley. A second expedition occupied Juzjan, Faryab, Talaqan, and Balkh, territories of Afghanistan.

The Story Of The Frontier Province, J.M.E.

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The history of North-west Frontier is closely connected to Afghanistan. During the 18th century the area was ruled by Afghans. Between 1818 and 1834 the Sikhs occupied Peshawar with the help of the British government in India. The book covers the history of the North-West Frontier from the mid-nineteenth century of early 20th century.

Phonology Of The Bakhtiari, Badakhshani, And Madaglashti Dialects Of Modern Persian, D.L.R. Lorimer (Major)

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The Bakhtiari language is considered Persian language, which belongs to the Indo-European language family. Bakhtiaries talk ordinary Persian, and those who want to learn Bakhtiari do so in ordinary Persian. Bakhtiari has no literature and is seldom or never written.

The book could be of interests to philologists and linguists

A Text Book Of The Balochi Language : Consisting Of Miscellaneous Stories, Legends, Poems And Balochi-English Vocabulary, Mansel Longworth Dames

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No abstract provided.

Operations In Waziristan, 1919-1920, Army, General Staff Branch, India,

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Operation in Waziristan, 1919-1920, compiled by the General Staff Army Headquarters, India.

The Pathan Borderland : A Consecutive Account Of The Country And People On And Beyond The Indian Frontier From Chitral To Dera Ismail Khan (1921), Colin Metcalf Enriquez

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A consecutive account of the country and people on and beyond the Indian frontier from Chitral to Dera Ismail Khan.

In this second edition considerable additions have been made, and chapters IV and VIII to XIV have been entirely re-written.

Contents: Chitral, Yusufzai, Peshawar, Jalozai, Kohat, Samana, Kurram, A tale from Tirah, Bannu, Fronteir Field Firing, Shahbash Ilam Dim, Sheikh Budin, Derajat and Waziristan.

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.