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The Religions of the Hindukush . Vol. 1: The Religion of the Kafirs—The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Afghan Nuristan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 February 1988
... in marriage are particularly striking aspects of both of these works. BARBARA STOLER MILLER Barnard College The Religions of the Hindukush. Vol. 1: The Religion of the Kafirs The PreIslamic Heritage of Afghan Nuristan. By KARL JETTMAR. Translated by ADAM NAYYAR. Wiltshire, England: Aris and Phillips Ltd...
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The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710–1780
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 518–520.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Richard M. Eaton The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710–1780 . By Jos J. L. Gommans . Leiden : EJ. Brill , 1995 . xviii, 219 pp. $77.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 518 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on Patna's banking businesses...
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Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 483–485.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Ann Grodzins Gold Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling . By Margaret A. Mills . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1991 . xi, 388 pp. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 483 father...
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Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 757–758.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Marvin G. Weinbaum Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal . By Riaz M. Khan . An Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Book. Durham and London : Duke University Press , 1991 . ix, 402 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK...
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Afghan Nomads: Caravans, Conflicts and Trade in Afghanistan and British India 1800–1980
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 295–296.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Robert L. Canfield Afghan Nomads: Caravans, Conflicts and Trade in Afghanistan and British India 1800–1980 . By Klaus Ferdinand . Copenhagen : Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers , 2006 . 1 pp. DKK 330.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...
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Tribe, Diaspora, and Sainthood in Afghan History
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 171–211.
Published: 01 February 2008
... alternative models of self-knowledge and affiliation, Pashtun elites elaborated a distinct idiom of “Afghan” identity. With the Afghans' absorption into the Mughal Empire, earlier patterns of accommodation to the Indian environment were overturned through the writing of history, whereby the Afghan past...
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The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices, and Titles to the Mughal Nobility (1574–1658) The Afghan Nobility and the Mughals, 1526–1707
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 174–175.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Douglas E. Streusand Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 The Afghan Nobility and the Mughals, 1526–1707 . By Rita Joshi . Delhi : Vikas Publishing House Pvt. , 1985 . x, 246 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. The Apparatus of Empire: Awards...
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“A Fondness for Military Display”: Conquest and Intrigue in South India during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839–40
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 139–159.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Chandra Mallampalli Abstract As the East India Company prepared for its First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42), its officials grew suspicious of a Muslim uprising within British India. They became convinced that itinerant Muslim reformers—mislabeled “Wahhabis”—were inciting princes of India's Deccan...
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Summoning Muslims: Print, Politics, and Religious Ideology in Afghanistan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 609–628.
Published: 01 August 1993
...David B. Edwards Abstract G ulbuddin hekmatyar made the above statement in a speech to Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, in the early 1980s. As the leader ( amīr ) of Hizb-i Islami Afghanistan (the Islamic Party of Afghanistan), one of the principal Islamic parties then fighting to overthrow...
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Lines of (In)Convenience: Sovereignty and Border-Making in Postcolonial South Asia, 1947–1965
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 963–985.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Afghanistan borders conflict India international relations Pakistan South Asia sovereignty territoriality The early 1960s were tumultuous in South Asia. Following an Afghan force's invasion of West Pakistan in 1960, Pakistan and Afghanistan had only just normalized their political relations when...
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Afghanistan: Highway of Conquest
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 541–542.
Published: 01 May 1966
... its re-emergence as a fully sovereign power in 1919, the author describes in a lively manner the interesting political progress of Afghanistan, especially since 1953. The author sets out "to correct a distorted picture of Afghan history," for which he blames the superficial writings of various globe...
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Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited—A Review Article
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 73–80.
Published: 01 November 1981
... raised. Let me indulge my academic prejudices by selecting the anthropological study, The Kirghiz and Wakhi ofAfghanistan, to open the discussion. Nazif Shahrani's book is based on his doctoral dissertation. His fieldwork was conducted between 1972-1974 among the Kirghiz pastoralists living in the Afghan...
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Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 213–247.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., especially since the start of violent conflict in Afghanistan in the 1970s, has been exceptionally porous. Since 1979, Chitral has been home to thousands of permanent and semipermanent Afghan refugees ( muhajiran ). In addition, the region saw an influx of significant numbers of men from Tajikistan who fled...
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The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1291–1293.
Published: 01 November 2003
... range of the players, Afghan and non-Afghan, over more than two decades. His information base for the book includes a comprehensive reading of relevant history stretching back to the eighteenth century, as well as a large accumulation of interview data from key players, many identified, some not. Few...
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Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 406–407.
Published: 01 May 1988
... instructive study of the Afghan response to Marxist rule and Soviet intervention published to date. It is based on Roy's several lengthy visits throughout Afghanistan between 1980 and 1985. Reference is made to Soviet tactics and to international reactions to the war, but this is preeminently a study...
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Russo-Persian Commercial Relations, 1828–1914
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 540–541.
Published: 01 May 1966
... a distorted picture of Afghan history," for which he blames the superficial writings of various globe-trotters and retired British army officers who "frequently carried on their research as an adjunct to invasion and were thus hardly capable of objectivity." Mr. Fletcher unfortunately does not add much...
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The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan: Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462–1660
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1293–1295.
Published: 01 November 2003
... . $100.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1293 leap into view in certain phases of recent Afghan politics are effects of particular circumstances, even directly antithetical to the espoused ideology of groups such as the Taliban, which...
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The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 708–709.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Antonio Giustozzi's research. He says that over the years he has assembled a “battle-tested team” of “Afghan and Pakistani researchers,” mostly with a “background in journalism,” who have apparently gained access to many sources unavailable to other researchers. His conclusions in The Islamic State...
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The Tarikh-i-Khan Jahani of Khawjah Ni'mat Allah
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 November 1961
... Text. Rs. 25 The Afghans played an important role in the history of medieval India. The Lodis and the Surs were imperial rulers in their own right controlling vast tracts of territory in northern India. The Lodis had to repair the damage done to the polity and economy of northern India by the whimsical...
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Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 Afghanistan: Political Modernization of a Mountain-Kingdom
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (2): 563–564.
Published: 01 February 1975
... of the book. Amanullah's internal problems, including tribal As an Afghan I can say that Louis Dupree disagreements and disputes, he minimizes the knows Afghans and Afghanistan well the effect of British policy based on the principle mentality of the Afghan, his likes and dislikes. of "divide and rule...
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