Pashto Grammar

Scanned and archived by Google Books: Grammar of the Pashto Language by Henry Walter Bellew, 1867. A valuable reference.

Pashto Dictionary

A convenient reference, from the digital archives at the American Library. This comes from the compilation by Henry Walter Bellew, 1834-1892 scanned by Google Books. Open source and available in other formats. Click here.

In the expanded form, it has an English-Pashto search facility.

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Bacha Khan

Peshawar, NWFP has been in the news for several weeks as it burns in the face of a continual onslaught of violent attacks. This is just one such story. Who is responsible? The militants? Covert government agencies? External or internal? To be honest, it matters less, when people are in fear - when stepping out to go about your daily business becomes a matter of taking the greatest of risks.

Here, I share an e-book from Google Books, Non-Violent Soldier of Islam by Eknath Easwaran on Bacha Khan's majestic struggle for justice. This is my candle for peace for all people affected by violence.

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Poetry of the Afghans

For today's posting, I return to Google Books, once again. Poetry of the Afghans is an English Language anthology of Pashto poems from the sixteenth to nineteenth century featuring some great names such as Rahman Baba and Khushal Khan Khattak. From the 1867 collections compiled by Henry George Raverty.

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Language of the Afghans - پښتو

Much is made of the impressive collections of archives available on Google Books. Here, I share A Grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or Language of the Afgháns by Henry George Raverty from 1860.

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