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Approximately 75% of the titles in the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection are in English. Selected materials from the collection have been digitized in support of research in the area of Afghanistan studies.

The UNO Criss Library holds the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, one of the largest collections of Afghan primary and secondary materials outside of the country. It contains over 20,000 titles in more than 20 languages, including Dari, Pashto, and English.

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Submissions from 1878 1878

The Afghan question: speech of the Earl of Northbrook, in the Guildhall, Winchester, on the 11th of November 1878 (1878?), Thomas George Baring Northbrook

Cabul or Afghanistan: the seat of the Anglo-Russian question (1878), Phil Robinson

Submissions from 1877 1877

A ride through Islam, being a journey through Persia and Afghanistan to India viâ Meshed, Herat, and Kandahar, Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh

Submissions from 1874 1874

The Oxus and the Indus (1874), Evans Bell

Submissions from 1862 1862

Journal of a political mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, under Major (now Colonel) Lumsden; with an account of the country and people, Henry Walter Bellew

Report on the trade and resources of the countries on the north-western boundary of India, Punjab (India)

Selections from the poetry of the Afghans (1862), Henry George Raverty

Submissions from 1861 1861

Sale's brigade in Afghanistan: with an account of the seisure and defence of Jellalabad, G. R. Gleig, Rev.

Submissions from 1860 1860

Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor, Thomas Witlam Atkinson

Submissions from 1858 1858

History of the Afghans, Joseph Pierre Ferrier and William Jesse

Submissions from 1848 1848

Legends of the Afghan countries, in verse: with various pieces, original and translated, Charles Masson

Submissions from 1846 1846

A peep into Toorkisthān, Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Submissions from 1844 1844

Note on the historical results deducible from recent discoveries in Afghanistan, Henry Thoby Prinsep

The narrative of Lieutenant Colonel L.R. Stacy, C.B., Bengal Native Infantry, whilst in the Brahooe Camp, inducing the submission of Nasseer Khan, only son of the late Meer Meerab Khan, khan of Khelat; and in the subsequent operations of General Nott's army in its march to and its return from Kabul, Lewis Robert Stacy

Submissions from 1843 1843

Diary of a march through Sinde and Afghanistan, with the troops under the command of General Sir William Nott and sermons delivered on various occasions during the campaign of 1842, Ira N. Allen

Journal of imprisonment in Affghanistan: (continued and concluded), Vincent Eyre, Lieut.

The military operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842: with a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan, Vincent Eyre

History of the war in Affghanistan, from its commencement to its close; including a general sketch of the policy, and the various circumstances which induced the British government to interfere in the affairs of Affghanistan. From the journal and letters of an officer high in rank, and who has served many years in the Indian army. Edited by Charles Nash, esq., with an introductory description of the country, and its political state previous to the war, Charles Barnes Nash

Memorials of Affghanistan: being state papers, official documents, dispatches, authentic narratives, etc. illustrative of the British expedition to and occupation of, Affghanistan and Scinde, between the years 1838 and 1842, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler

Submissions from 1842 1842

The expedition into Affghanistan: notes and sketches descriptive of the country, contained in a personal narrative during the campaign of 1839 & 1840, up to the surrender of Dost Mahomed Khan, James Atkinson

An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies, in Persia, Tartary, and India (1842) - Volume I, Mountstuart Elphinstone

An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies, in Persia, Tartary, and India (1842) - Volume II, Mountstuart Elphinstone

A memoir of India and Avghanistaun, Josiah Harlan

Submissions from 1840 1840

Narrative of the war in Affghanistan in 1838-39 (Volume 1), Henry Havelock, Captain

Narrative of the war in Affghanistan in 1838-39 (Volume 2), Henry Havelock, Captain

A narrative of the march and operations of the Army of the Indus in the expedition into Afghanistan in the years 1838-1839, under the command of H.E. Lieut. General Sir John (now Lord) Keane, William Hough

Narrative of the campaign of the Indus, in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9, Richard Hartley Kennedy

Narrative of the campaign of the Indus, in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9, Richard Hartley Kennedy

Rough notes of the campaign in Sinde and Affghanistan, in 1838-9: being extracts from a personal journal kept while on the staff of the army of the Indus, James Outram, Major

A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed, with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition (1840), Godfrey Thomas Vigne

Submissions from 1834 1834

Journey to the north of India: overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun (Vol. 1), Arthur Conolly

Journey to the north of India: overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun, (Vol. 2), Arthur Conolly

Historical and descriptive account of Persia, from the earliest ages to the present time : with a detailed view of its resources, government, population, natural history, and the character of its inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes, including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan, James Baillie Fraser

Submissions from 1800 1800

Khyber calling, Eardley A. J. Dawson