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Books

 Note: Thanks to Ishaq Muhammadi for his efforts compiling these books.

Jajim has updated the list of books currently.

 

Books & Journals in Urdu, Persian, and Hazargi -  The following page contains all the list of books and journals on Hazaras in Urdu (national language of Pakistan), Persian (Iran) and Hazargi (the language that the Hazara people speak)

  • Bisat-e-Shatranj - a new book in Dari, written by Hassan Raza Changezi and Qais

 

  • The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study
    by Sayed Askar Mousavi (highly recommended)
  • The Hazaras  by  Hassan Poladi - Out of Print
  • A Brief note on Hazara and Hazarajat by Khuda Nazar Qambari, Quetta. 1989.
  • An enquiry into the history of Hazara Mongol by E. E. Bacon, USA. 1951
  • The Hazara Mongols of Afghanistan by E. E. Bacon, USA. 1951
  • Obok by E. E. Bacon, USA. 1958.
  • The Hazaragi Dialect by G. K. Dulling. London. 1973
  • The Hazara's of Central Afghanistan  by Wilfred Thesiger.
  • Afghan Boundary commission report vol. 4. Simla. 1891.

Unpublished Work -

  • Political developement among Hazara tribe in Afghanistan. unpublished Ph.D. thesis
  • A brief history of Hazara Pioneers by Brig: Bunbury.
  • A sociological survey of Hazara in Pakistan by M. Autadul Ajam.  Ph.D. thesis
  • Iran and Afghan struggle by Dr. Grant. M. Farr, Dr. Jhan Lorentz.
  • Ethnicity and national liberation - the Afghan Hazara between resistance and civil war by Jahan Heeren, Grevem Eyer.
  • The Hazara's of Quetta by Chuang
  • Hazaras in the view of British Diaries.   1890  compiled by Muhammed Ali Gulzari  (a must read)
  • ‘BUDDHA  DIES ‘’    a compilation work from Internet about destruction of Buddha statue in Bamyan.  Compiled by Mohammed Ali Gulzari
  • SIMA ON THE NET            a compilation work on Dr. Sima Samar from internet By:  M.A Gulzari
  • Shajara Awoolad Changez Khan. ( a Genological Chart of Hazara Tribes)      By: Shiekh Nasir Ali
  • Tarikh Hazara ( Persian  not published)                                                                  By : Shiekh Nasir Ali 
  • WAR AND MIGRATION      Social Networks And Economic Strategies Of The Hazaras Of Afghanistan     by Monsutti, Alessandro

 

By Part - the following books contains partial contents on the Hazaras.

  • Taliban   (highly recommended)
    Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in     Central Asia
    by Ahmad Rashid
    (Note: you can find this book on Amazon.com as well. It is little more expensive)
  • Afghanistan and its inhabitants by M. A. Hayat Khan. translated by Henry Priestly.
  • Afghanistan  by Lauis Dupree
  • Afghanistan by H. W. Bellew
  • The emergence of Modern Afghanistan by Vartan Gregarian.
  • The Kingdom of Afghanistan   by  G. P. Tate. 1973.
  • History of Afghanistan by G. B. Mallercon. Peshawar, 1984.
  • The Life of Amir Dost Mohd Khan  by Mohan Lal.
  • Travel into Bukhara by Alexander Burnes
  • Kingdom of Kabul by Elphinstone. London, 1972.
  • Cabool by Alexander Burnes. Austria, 1973.
  • Memorial of Afghanistan by J. H. Stoe Queler. Peshawar, 1983.
  • Jawan to General   by General (Rtd.) M. Musa Khan Hazara. Karachi, 1987.
  • Music in the Mind (concept of music in Afghanistan) by L. H. Sakata, USA.
  • A Study of Internal Afghan Politics, during the time of Amir Abdur Rahman, 1880-1896, by Hassan Kakar, Lahore.
  • Afghanistan & Afghans  by H. W. Bellew.

 

 

The Man Who Would Be King:
 The First American in Afghanistan

   by Ben Macintyre

  Hardcover:
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    21 April, 2004

   US$17.00     

 
KING OF HAZARAJAT
 
While many know Sean Connery as "The Man Who Would Be King," few know 19th-century maverick Josiah Harlan, whose adventures probably inspired John Huston's version of Kipling's tale. But the research of British journalist Macintyre (The Englishman's Daughter) gives readers both Harlan's story and a thought-provoking perspective on the history of superpower intervention in Afghanistan. Born to a Pennsylvania Quaker family in 1799, the self-educated Harlan studied Greek and Roman history before becoming a Freemason and shipping out to Calcutta at age 21. Jilted by his fiancée, Harlan decided to seek his fortune on the Asian subcontinent. Calling himself a doctor, he briefly served as a military surgeon with the British army in the Burma War, before tales of Afghanistan fired his imagination. Disguised as a Muslim holy man, Harlan wheeled and dealed his way to Kabul, buying up mercenaries and bribing tribal leaders like a seasoned Afghan warlord. In 1838, Harlan was crowned king of the fierce Hazara people, although the British overthrow of the sitting Afghan ruler soon forced his departure. While mapping Harlan's adventures, Macintyre entertains readers with odd episodes (e.g., Harlan visiting an Afghan sauna fueled by burning night soil) and myriad ironies (e.g., Freemason Harlan trading secrets with an old Rosicrucian sorcerer in an Afghan cave). Harlan's story alone is fascinating, but its resonance with modern-day struggles--Harlan urging the British to try "fiscal diplomacy" (i.e., gold) instead of "invading and subjugating an unoffending people"--makes it compelling. Maps not seen by PW.