Download or read book Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan in 1857 written by H.W. Bellew and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Download or read book Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan in 1857 Under Major now Colonel Lumsden written by Henry Walter Bellew and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of medical officer of British mission; providing detail of medicine of Afghans.
Download or read book Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan in 1857 Under Major now Colonel Lumsden written by Henry Walter Bellew and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boundaries of Afghans Political Imagination written by Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination, the author seeks an answer to the question of how tradition, specifically its normative-axiological aspects, shapes the political attitudes and actions of the Afghans. The author points to two different concepts of social order which are moulded by the Pashtunwali: on the one hand, a tribal code which is part of Pashto language tradition; and on the other hand, by Sufism, the religious and philosophical current in Islam expressed mainly in the Dari (Persian) language. The two systems offer a different hierarchy of values, and organize social reality by referring to two different models of order: the circle and the pyramid. While making an in-depth analysis of the topic, the author asserts that the social organization of the Pashtuns is based on the principle of representation and consensus. Tribalism is shaped in the structure of a circle, in which a group is the fundamental category. Where tribal structure no longer performs its regulatory and organizational functions, the pattern of social order is offered by the Sufi Brotherhoods, which had long been very popular and powerful in this part of Asia. The hierarchical organization of Sufism, based on a disciple-master relationship and the principle of authoritarianism, gradually established the structure of the pyramid as a model of social order, and also of political order. Religious Sufi Brotherhoods became the most accessible leadership pattern, besides the tribal one, to be fixed in the Afghans’ social imagination. This analysis from the perspective of sociocultural and political anthropology will be indispensable for those interested in Afghan and Islamic societies.
Download or read book Taming the Imperial Imagination written by Martin J. Bayly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Imperial Imagination marks a novel intervention into the debate on empire and international relations, and offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Anglo-Afghan relations. Martin J. Bayly shows how, throughout the nineteenth century, the British Empire in India sought to understand and control its peripheries through the use of colonial knowledge. Addressing the fundamental question of what Afghanistan itself meant to the British at the time, he draws on extensive archival research to show how knowledge of Afghanistan was built, refined and warped by an evolving colonial state. This knowledge informed policy choices and cast Afghanistan in a separate legal and normative universe. Beginning with the disorganised exploits of nineteenth-century explorers and ending with the cold strategic logic of the militarised 'scientific frontier', this book tracks the nineteenth-century origins of contemporary policy 'expertise' and the forms of knowledge that inform interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere today.
Download or read book The A to Z of Afghan Wars Revolutions and Insurgencies written by Ludwig W. Adamec and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and 1919); a Russian-backed Marxist government in Kabul battled a coalition of tribal armies, which was soon followed by the Taliban takeover. Now, in the midst of a war against terrorism, the United States is backing another central government in yet another sporadic struggle. All the information currently available on the endless chain of wars stretching over two and a half centuries is traced in The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies. It consists of the American involvement in Afghanistan since October 2001 as well as individual campaigns, including tactics and logistics of skirmishes, the weapons used, and biographical entries on the significant leaders involved in the battles. Extensive analysis of regional and ideological divisions within the country and the external forces that have brought around conflict in this remote, mountainous region, in addition to a chronology of the encounters, an extensive bibliography, and numerous maps and illustrations make this crucial volume indispensable.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of India written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1928 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the British Empire written by Henry Dodwell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1929 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by A. C. Burnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Indian Geology written by Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of Indian Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography Of Afghanistan written by K. S. McLachlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.
Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bungalow, pyjamas, tiffin, rickshaw, veranda, curry, cheroot, chintz, calico, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are all words which have crept into the English language from the days of Britain's colonial rule of the Indian sub-continent and the Malaysian Peninsular. Hobson-Jobson (derived from the Islamic cry at the celebration of Muhurram 'Ya Hasan, ya Hosain' is shorthand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. This dictionary, compiled in the late-19th century, is an invaluable source which has never been superseded. It is an essential book for all who are interested in English etymology and the development of the language. AUTHORS: Arthur Cole Burnell (1840-1882) spent large parts of his life in India working for the civil service, and translated a considerable number of Sanskrit manuscripts. He co-operated with Sir Henry Yule to write 'Hobson-Jobson', and Anglo-Indian dictionary. Sir Henry Yule was a military man, serving in India and retiring as a colonel in 1862. In his leisure time, he wrote some well-received books on Asia, but he is best remembered for collaborating with Dr A.C. Burnell in writing the Anglo-Indian dictionary, 'Hobson-Jobson'.
Download or read book The Great Game written by Peter Hopkirk and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play firstbegan the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.This book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horsetraders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some neverreturned.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Ames Free Library North Easton Massachusetts written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
