02851cam a22004211 4500 8919804 840806s1930 pk 000 0 puso 20260529175940.3 ne 64003006 (DLC)ne 64003006 DLC CarP DLC a-af--- DS356 .M316 Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce), 1825-1898. History of Afghanistan. Pushto. Tārīkh-i Afghānistān = Tarikh-i-Afghanistan, with a foreword by C.A. Boyle; official text-book for the examination of military officers in internship Pushtu. Translated from English by Ahmad Jan. 1st ed. Peshawar, Behari Lal, 1930. 422 p. 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Early imprint. Romanized. Tārīkh-i-Afghānistān (History of Afghanistan) is a translation into Pushto of G.B. Malleson's History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878 (1879). Published in Peshawar in 1930, the book was used as a textbook for British military officers serving in the Pushto-speaking areas of northwestern India (present-day Pakistan) and Afghanistan. Its purpose was to provide a language learning text that would at the same time introduce its readers to the history of the Pushto lands. The translation was done by Ahmad Jan (1818-99), a munshi (scribe or clerk) from Peshawar. The Pushto language is one of the principal languages spoken in Afghanistan and is recognized as such in the country's constitution of 2004. Many Pushto dialects are spoken in different regions of Afghanistan and in jurisdictions of northwestern Pakistan. Like Dari, Pushto belongs to the Iranic family of languages, but these Afghan languages are mutually unintelligible to the general population. Linguists continue to rely on 19th and early 20th century fieldwork in describing the phonetic and syntactic features of the language. Munshi Ahmad Jan is credited with developing a modern style of Pushto prose writing. World Digital Library. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Afghanistan History. History of Afghanistan. Pakistan https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedscd.ne64003006 View online content for this title. World Digital Library http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.13488 7 cbc premver u ncip 19 y-gencatlg LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-644 amed/amedscd miscpull wdl c-GenColl DS356 .M316 (Orien Push) 00016903024 Copy 2 CCF c-GenColl DS356 .M316 (Orien Push) Copy 1 PREM