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The Pathan Unarmed, Mukulika Banerjea
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 Pathans are commonly associated with the full gamut of violence, from the domestic variety through tribal feud to armed resistance to outsiders. Accordingly, a peculiar interest attaches itself to the Khudai Khidmatgars or Servants of God, often referred to as the Red Shirts, a Pathan organization which professed (and sometimes practised) non-violence in the North West Frontier province of British India during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Afghanistan, Louis Dupree
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The object of the book apparently is to "ferret out the patterns" of Afghan culture with a view to establishing "guidelines for further investigation as well as [presenting] a reasonable survey of available data." He hopes "platforms will be established from which Afghan scholars can launch research projects of their own"
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Khyber - Story of an Imperial Migraine, Charles Miller
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 This is an American book, but an English edition is published by MacDonald and Janes. Ostensibly it deals with the North-West Frontier, but in truth it treats the Frontier in the context of Afghanistan; the country and the people, Pathans, of both the N.W.F.P. proper (the Settled Districts) and the Tribal Areas
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