Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier

Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier

Theodore Leighton Pennell, christian missionary and doctor (1867-1912)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- INTRODUCTION

-04- PREFACE

-05- TABLE OF THE CHIEF SOUNDS

-06- PRONUNCIATION

-07- THE AFGHAN CHARACTER

-08- AFGHAN TRADITIONS

-09- BORDER WARRIORS

-10- A FRONTIER VALLEY

-11- THE CHRISTIAN’S REVENGE

-12- A DAY IN THE WARDS

-13- FROM MORNING TO NIGHT

-14- THE ITINERANT MISSIONARY

-15- AFGHAN MULLAHS

-16- A TALE OF A TALIB

-17- SCHOOL WORK

-18- AN AFGHAN FOOTBALL TEAM

-19- ALAM GUL’S CHOICE

-20- ALAM GUL’S CHOICE, CONTINUED

-21- AFGHAN WOMEN

-22- THE STORY OF A CONVERT

-23- THE HINDU ASCETICS

-24- SADHUS AND FAQIRS

-25- MY LIFE AS A MENDICANT

-26- A FRONTIER EPISODE

-27- FRONTIER CAMPAIGNING

-28- CHIKKI, THE FREEBOOTER

-29- ROUGH DIAMONDS

-30- DEDUCTIONS

-31- A FORWARD POLICY

-32- GLOSSARY OF WORDS NOT GENERALLY USED OUTSIDE INDIA