The ancient land and the modern nation of Afghanistan are the subject of Louis Dupree's
book. Both in the text and in over a hundred illustrations, he identifies the major patterns of …

Afghanistan's recent history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal
conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime; and then the US invasion and the multi-national …

Kafiristan, or" The Land of the Infidels," was a region of eastern Afghanistan where the
inhabitants had retained their traditional pagan culture and religion and rejected conversion …

With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan
Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has received …

These ruminations arose in response to America's war on terrorism. 1 I started from the
conviction that there is no response to war. War is a cruel caricature of what in us can …

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan contains substantial new
material to reflect the rapid changes in the region. This is done through a chronology, an …

A historical survey which covers firstly, the various attempts to establish a satisfactory
boundary between the settled lands of India and the mountain areas to the North; secondly …

Geographically, Asia encompasses the vast area from Suez, the Bosporus, and the Ural
Mountains eastward to the Bering Sea and from this line southward to the Indonesian …

The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces
unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their …

A challenging analysis of British Foreign Policy is provided at a time when Britain possessed
the biggest Empire that humankind has ever known. In this Empire India had a unique …