Afghan Wars
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Broader terms:- Eastern question (Central Asia)
- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century
- Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century
- India -- History
- Afghan Wars -- Juvenile fiction
- Afghan Wars -- Personal narratives
- Afghan Wars -- Personal narratives, British.
- Afghan Wars -- Prisoners and prisons, British
- India -- History -- Afghan Wars, 1838-1919
- Anglo-Afghan War
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The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80, by Archibald Forbes (Gutenberg text)- An Appeal Against Faction, in Respect of the Concurrence of the Present and the Late Administrations, to Prevent the House of Commons From Performing its Highest Duties; To Which is Added an Analysis of Count Nesselrode's Despatch of the 20th Oct., 1838 (1843), by David Urquhart (page images at Google)
- Campaign of the Indus: In a Series of Letters From an Officer of the Bombay Division (1840), by T. W. E. Holdsworth, ed. by A. H. Holdsworth
- The Defence of Kahun: A Forgotten Episode of the First Afghan War, Being a Narrative Compiled From a Journal Kept During the Siege, and From Original Letters (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Charles Reynolds Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical Sketch, by John Adye (Gutenberg text)
- History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis, From its Formation in 1857 to 1907 (Devonport, UK: Swiss and Co., 1909), by 20th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army (page images at HathiTrust)
- For Name and Fame: or, Through Afghan Passes, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Charles Mills Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2 (sixth thousand; London: J. Murray, 1843), by Florentia Wynch Sale
- Scenes in a Soldier's Life: Being a Connected Narrative of the Principal Military Events in Scinde, Beeloochistan, and Affghanistan, During 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843, Under Generals Lord Keane, Brooks, Sir R. Sale, Wiltshire, Pollock, Nott, England, M'Caskill, and Sir C. Napier (Montreal: R. and C. Chalmers; et al., 1848), by J. H. W. Hall
- 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 (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Vincent Eyre
- 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 (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Vincent Eyre
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Eastern question (Central Asia)- Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute, by Theophilus F. Rodenbough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical Sketch, by John Adye (Gutenberg text)
- A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun, With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries (Philadelphia: J. Dobson; et al., 1842), by Josiah Harlan
- The Strangling of Persia: A Story of the European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue That Resulted in the Denationalization of Twelve Million Mohammedans (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by W. Morgan Shuster (multiple formats at archive.org)
- V Indīi͡u: Voenno-Statisticheskīĭ I Strategicheskīĭ Ocherk: Proekt Budushchago Pokhoda (in Russian; St. Petersburg: A.A. Porokhovshchikova, 1898), by V. T. Lebedev
- An Appeal Against Faction, in Respect of the Concurrence of the Present and the Late Administrations, to Prevent the House of Commons From Performing its Highest Duties; To Which is Added an Analysis of Count Nesselrode's Despatch of the 20th Oct., 1838 (1843), by David Urquhart (page images at Google)
- Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying Between Russia and India (third edition; London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas and Lowrey, 1886), by Charles Marvin
- The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years 1879-80-81, Including Five Months' Residence Among the Tekkés of Merv (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Edmond O'Donovan
- Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute, by Theophilus F. Rodenbough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
- Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda (third edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, c1895), by Zénaïde A. Ragozin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of India as Told by its Own Historians: The Local Muhammadan Dynasties: Gujarát (London: W.H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Sikandar ibn Muhammad, ed. by Edward Clive Bayley, trans. by John Dowson
- The Portuguese in India: Being a History of The Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire (2 volumes; London: W.H. Allen and Co., 1894), by Frederick Charles Danvers
- The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
- The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
- Albuquerque (from the "Rulers of India" series; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by H. Morse Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Da Asia (new edition of 24 volumes in Portuguese; Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1778-1788), by João de Barros and Diogo do Couto, contrib. by Manoel Severim de Faria (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan (1887 edition), by H. G. Keene (Gutenberg text)
- A Translation of the Sëir Mutaqherin, or, View of Modern Times: Being an History of India, From the Year 1118 to the Year 1194 (This Year Answers to the Christian Year 1781-82) of the Hedjrah (4 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by T. D. Chatterjee, ca. 1902), by Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʼī, trans. by Häji Mustafa
- Memoirs of the Late War in Asia; With a Narrative of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Our Officers and Soldiers (2 volumes; London: printed for the author and sold by J. Murray, 1788), by William Thomson
- The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta, 26th December 1917, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
- Greater India (Chennai: S. Ganesan, 1921), by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Kushan Chronology ("Part I"; no further parts known to be published; extracted from Journal of the Department of Letters, University of Calcutta, 1920), by R. C. Majumdar
- Brother India (New York: World Youth Congress, ca. 1940), by Rajni Patail, contrib. by Paul Robeson
- Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Revathi Krishnaswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Authentic Narrative of the Treatment of the English, Who Were Taken Prisoners on the Reduction of Bednore, by Tippoo Saia, From the 28th of April, 1783, the Day of Capitulation, to Their Enlargement on the 25th of April, 1784 (new edition; London: G. Kearsley, 1785), by Henry Oakes, contrib. by John Charles Sheen (multiple formats at Google)
- British Rule in India: A Historical Sketch (London: Smith, Elder and co., 1857), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cartas Polìticas, Comerciales y Literarias Sobre la India: ó, Intereses de la Inglaterra, Relativos á la Rusia, al Indostan y al Egipto (translated into Spanish; Madrid: En la imprenta de Sancha, 1805), by John Taylor, trans. by Angel Martinez de Godoy (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Failure of European Civilisation as a World Culture (Chennai: S. Ganesan and Co., 1921), by Samuel Stokes, contrib. by C. F. Andrews
- India Under Dalhousie and Canning (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), by George Douglas Campbell Argyll
- The Story of The Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (cheap edition; London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1916), by Winston Churchill
- The Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape of James Scurry, Who was Detained a Prisoner During Ten Years, in the Dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib (London: H. Fisher, 1824), by James Scurry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Formation in Nineteenth-Century Telugu-Speaking India (c2002), by Michael Katten (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
- The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Dane Keith Kennedy (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
- Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges (London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1820), by James Baillie Fraser
- The Marquess Cornwallis and the Consolidation of British Rule (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1890), by W. S. Seton-Karr (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Record of the Expeditions Against the North-West Frontier Tribes, Since the Annexation of the Punjab (London: Whiting and Co., ca. 1884), by W. H. Paget, ed. by A. H. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Sketch of the Administration of the Hooghly District from 1795 to 1845, With Some Account of the Early English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and Danish Settlements (Kolkata: Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1888), by G. Toynbee
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