Showing posts with label 1929. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1929. Show all posts

Monday, 28 March 2022

A Suleiman Khel Ghilzai, 1929





Baran, a Suleiman Khel Ghilzai Pashtun from Qala Jamaliwar, between Ghazni and Gardez in Afghanistan : language-informer for Ghilzai dialect of Pashto. 

 Date: 23rd September, 1929. 

 Photo by Georg Morgenstierne.

Sunday, 27 March 2022

Kakar Pashtuns, 1929




Kakar Pashtuns: (from left to right) Zarin Khan, with his son, and Allah Nur : language informants for Wanetsi dialect of Pashto. 

Date: 18th March, 1929. 

Photo by Georg Morgenstierne.

Sunday, 16 January 2022

A group of boys wearing hats in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, 1929

 


A group of boys wearing hats in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, 1929. Photo by E. O. Hoppe.
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Friday, 2 July 2021

Prince Hidayatullah Khan of Afghanistan


Prince Hidayatullah Khan with 36 other Afghan students go to Paris school, March 27, 1922. Press Photo. 


Caption: "The son and heir of the king of Afghanistan with other princes and sons of the notables of the court of Afghanistan are now studying in Paris at the Lycee Mich Elet. Our picture shows the crown prince of Afghanistan."


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Prince Hidayatullah, Paris, 1929. Press photo.

Caption : Hidayatullah, the eldest son of ruler of Afghanistan, who is a student in one of leading schools in Paris, where he has proved to be unusually clever in grasping the studies of languages and the fundamentals of the civic government." 

Monday, 24 August 2020

Shinwari revolt, 1929



Scene of the bazaar at Jalalabad (Afghanistan), Shinwari tribe in revolt against King Amanullah, February 1, 1929. Press Photo. Caption: "Our picture shows the bazaar at Jalalabad, the Afghan town on the Peshawar-Kabul road which is being besieged by the Shinwari tribesmen. Considerable damage has been caused to the town and the King's palace has been burned down. The town is surrounded by a high mud wall."


Reinforcements of Afghan infantry leaving Kabul to take part in the suppression of the Shinwari revolt. February 1, 1929. Press photo, The Times.