Author (نویسنده/ناشر):

Caron, James M.

Statement of responsibility:

Publication/Distribution (Imprint):

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, [2005?].

Physical Description:

24 p. ; 30 cm.

Subjects--Topical Terms:

Afghanistan – Historiography.
Department of South Asian Studies.

Class. No:

Pamphlet DS 355.2 .A34 2005

General Note:

Caption title.

General Note:

In contrast to major developments in general South Asian historiography, the historiography of modern Afghanistan has largely persisted as something of a scholarly throwback to the modernization theory trend of the 1950s and 60s. the way Pashtun experiences of Islam have been treated in history writing draws heavily upon this larger modernization-oriented thematic, which in turn has existed in a dialectic with journalistic and policy-oriented writing…—(p. 1).