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"Aryana or Ancient Afghanistan." It was printed
at Kabul and published by the Society of His
torical Research. Unfortunately, no adequate
arrangements could be available for printing an
English book at the Capital. It is, therefore, full
of mistakes, mostly of spellings, and sometimes it
makes a difficult reading.
The second part is not yet fully compiled and
may take a year or so for its completion. The
present volume entitled "The National Awaken
ing" is the third in the series and deals exclusively
with the history of two prominent Afghan dynas
ties—the Hotakis and the Durranis.
I acknowledge my heart-felt gratitude to the
Press Department and the Asia Foundation in
this connection. But for their encouragement
and help, moral as well as material, the author
could have hardly thought of undertaking such an
onerous task.
MOHAMMED ALI
Shershahmena,
Kabul, Afghanistan.
1st February, 1958.
Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting. How this was measured.