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 2016
Memoir of Shair Mohammad Khan Kamrany, Shair Mohammad Khan Kamrany, Nake M. Kamrany, Maryam Qudrat, Saleh Mohammad Kamrany, Nazaneen Habib, Frozan Habib, and Patrick Moore
Submissions from 2002
Afghans learn English, v.4, Vizārat-i Maʻārif, Center for Afghan Studies, and USAID
Afghans learn English, v.6, Vizārat-i Maʻārif, Center for Afghan Studies, and USAID
Submissions from 2000
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography - Volume II: English and European Languages, Shaista Wahab
Submissions from 1999
Frontier discord between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ahmad Alī Kuhzād and Saidal Yusufzai
Submissions from 1995
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography, Volume I: Pashto and Dari Titles, Shaista Wahab
Submissions from 1990
Constitution of Republic of Afghanistan, M. Arif Janesh
Submissions from 1988
Afghanistan : peace and repatriation? : a staff report, United States
Submissions from 1971
An interim proposal for the reconstruction and restoration of the Char Chatta Bazaar, Arline Lederman Friedman
Submissions from 1969
The Afghans, Mohammed Ali
Submissions from 1964
Constitution of Afghanistan, Government of Afghanistan
Submissions from 1959
The burqa comes off, Louis Dupree
Submissions from 1956
Education in Afghanistan: during the last half-century, Royal Afghan Ministry of Education, Afghanistan
Final design report on Kajakai Dam, Arghandab Dam, and Boghra Canal Projects, International Engineering Company., Morrison-Knudsen Afghanistan, Inc.
Submissions from 1955
This is Afghanistan, Royal Afghan Embassy, London
Submissions from 1948
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.
Submissions from 1946
Alexandre en Afghanistan : piece en quatre actes, Aḥmad ʻAlī Kuhzād
Submissions from 1923
The Arab conquests in Central Asia, H.A. R. Gibb
Submissions from 1922
A text book of the Balochi language : consisting of miscellaneous stories, legends, poems and Balochi-English vocabulary, Mansel Longworth Dames
The story of the frontier province, J.M.E.
Phonology of the Bakhtiari, Badakhshani, and Madaglashti dialects of modern Persian, D.L.R. Lorimer (major)
Submissions from 1921
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
Operations in Waziristan, 1919-1920, Army, General Staff Branch, India,
Submissions from 1920
For name and fame: or, Through Afghan passes, George Alfred Henty
Frontier folk of the Afghan border and beyond, Lilian A. Starr
Submissions from 1914
The hero of Herat: a frontier biography in romantic form (1914), Maud Diver
Submissions from 1913
Submissions from 1911
Gun-running and the Indian north-west frontier, Arnold Keppel
The kingdom of Afghanistan: a historical sketch, George Passman Tate
Submissions from 1910
Frontier warfare: a series of ten lectures, Frontier
A dictionary of the Pathan tribes on the north-west frontier of India, General Staff Army Headquarters, India
Submissions from 1909
Around Afghanistan, Henri Bouillane de Lacoste
Letters on the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission of 1896 (1909), A. H. McMahon and Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission
Bactria from the earliest times to the extinction of Bactrio-Greek rule in the Punjab, Hugh George Rawlinson
The frontiers of Baluchistan: travels on the borders of Persia and Afghanistan, George Passman Tate
Submissions from 1908
With the Afghans, Claud Herbert Alwyn Field
Submissions from 1907
Under the absolute Amir, Frank A. Martin
Submissions from 1906
With Roberts to Candahar, a tale of the third Afghan war, F. S. Brereton
Submissions from 1905
Submissions from 1904
Through the unknown Pamirs; the second Danish Pamir expedition, 1898-99, Ole Olufsen
Submissions from 1903
The middle eastern question, or, Some political problems of Indian defence, Valentine Chirol, Sir
The middle eastern question or, Some political problems of Indian defence, Valentine Chirol
Leaves from the diaries of a soldier and sportsman during twenty years' service in India, Afghanistan, Egypt and other countries, 1865-1885, Montagu Gilbert Gerard
Lord Curzon in India: 1898-1903 (1903), H. Caldwell Lipsett
Submissions from 1902
Afghanistan and its late Amir: with some account of Baluchistan, Christian Literature Society for India
Submissions from 1901
A short sketch, historical and traditional, of the Musalman races found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Sadik Ali Sher Ali Ansari
Submissions from 1900
The man who was, Rudyard Kipling
Submissions from 1899
The second Afghan war, 1878-79-80: its causes, its conduct and its consequences (vol. 1), Henry Bathurst Hanna
A dictionary of the Pathan tribes on the north-west frontier of India, Quarter Master General in India, Intelligence Branch
Submissions from 1898
Russian hosts and English guests in Central Asia, Woolrych J. T. Perowne
The risings on the north-west frontier, Pioneer Press
Submissions from 1897
Indian frontier policy: an historical sketch, John Adye Sir
Heroes of the Chitral siege, Alice F. Jackson,
The Life of John Nicholson:Soldier and Administrator, Lionel J. Trotter, Captian
Submissions from 1896
The Pamirs and the source of the Oxus, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of
Submissions from 1895
Lights & shades of hill life in the Afghan and Hindu highlands of the Punjab: a contrast, Frederick St. John Gore
At the court of the Amir: a narrative (1895), John Alfred Gray
Can Russia invade India?, H. B. Hanna
Submissions from 1894
Russia's march towards India, vol. 1, Indian Officer
Russia's march towards India, vol. 2, Indian Officer
Submissions from 1893
Kalid-i Afghani, Thomas Patrick Hughes and Trevor Chichele Plowden
Submissions from 1892
The Afghan wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80, Archibald Forbes
Submissions from 1891
An inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan, prepared and presented to the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists (1891), Henry Walter Bellew
Submissions from 1890
Afghan poetry of the seventeenth century: being selections from the poems of Khushhal Khan Khatak, with translations and grammatical introductions; edited and compiled by C. E. Biddulph, Khushhal Khan and C. E. Biddulph
Submissions from 1889
The Baluch and Afghan frontiers of India, Fortnightly review (London, England)
The cradle of the Aryans, Gerald Henry Rendall
Submissions from 1888
The career of Major George Broadfoot in Afghanistan and the Punjab, William Broadfoot
Submissions from 1886
Dictionary of the Wakhani language, Abdul Rahim
Journey to Badakshan; with report on Badakshan and Wakhan, Abdul Rahim
Submissions from 1885
Reports on parts of the Ghilzi country …, James Sutherland Broadfoot
Further correspondence respecting Central Asia, Great Britain, Foreign Office
The Russo-Afghan question and the invasion of India, George Bruce Malleson
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian dispute (1885), Theophilus F. Rodenbough
Submissions from 1884
A short history of India and the frontier states of Afghanistan, Nipal, and Burma (1884), James Talboys Wheeler
Submissions from 1883
Recollections of the Kabul campaign, 1879 & 1880, Joshua Duke
Through the Khyber Pass to Sherpore Camp, Cabul. An account of Temperance Work among our soldiers in the Cabul Field Force, Rev. J. Gelson Gregson
Submissions from 1882
Submissions from 1881
On the flora of the Kuram Valley &c., Afghanistan, J. E. T. Aitchison
With the Kurram Field Force, 1878-79, James Andrew Sutherland Colquhoun
Afghanistan: a short account of Afghanistan, its history, and our dealings with it, Philip Francis Walker
Submissions from 1880
The races of Afghanistan: being a brief account of the principal nations inhabiting that country (1880), Henry Walter Bellew
Central Asian portraits: the celebrities of the khanates and the neighbouring states, Demetrius Charles Boulger
Rough diary of the march of "I" Battery "1st" Brigade, R.A., to Kandahar, & c., November, 1878, to April, 1879, H. C. Lewes, Major
Herat: the granary and garden of Central Asia, George Bruce Malleson
Herat: the granary and garden of Central Asia, George Bruce Malleson
The Daily telegraph atlas of the Afghan war, Phil Robinson
Submissions from 1879
The Eastern question: from the Treaty of Paris 1856 to the Treaty of Berlin 1878, and to the second Afghan war (vol. I), George Douglas Campbell Argyll
The Eastern question: from the Treaty of Paris 1856 to the Treaty of Berlin 1878, and to the second Afghan war, Vol. II, George Douglas Campbell Argyll
British agents in Afghanistan (1879), Owen Tudor Burne Sir
Afghan Frontier: the substance of a speech not delivered (1879), George Campbell Sir
Lord Lytton and the Afghan war (1879), William Joseph Eastwick
The Kabul insurrection of 1841-42, Vincent Eyre
Char-ee-kar and service there with the 4th Goorkha Regiment, John Colpoys Haughton
Survey operations of the Afghanistan expedition: the Kurram Valley, Gerald Martin, Captain
Submissions from 1878
Afghanistan and the Central Asian question, Frederick H. Fisher
Report on the routes leading from the Indus towards Quetta and Pishin, A. Gaselee, Captain
The Afghan question: speeches of the Earl of Northbrook in the House of Lords, on the 5th and 10th December, 1878, Thomas George Baring Northbrook