The Pathans – 550 BC - AD 1957 by Sir Olaf Caroe,
The only available Book about Pathan by Sir Olaf caroe the book considered most authentic information about Pathan

Study of the Pathan Communities in Four States of India Safia Haleem
India has been attracting invaders, travellers and traders since the time of Alexander the Great. Every invader had left its marks on the geography, history and culture of the country

Pathan Orientation

Ghani Khan
The politics of the Pathan centre round gold and power, hunger and ambition, just like yours. As he has more blood in his veins and more bubbles in his head than you have, he is inclined to make them rather lively. Politics today do what religion did five hundred years ago. They are merely a system men have developed, whereby they pay for their stupidities by giving crafty wise men and earnest fools the power to rule them. For every man must rule or be ruled. There is no third way unless you are a poet or a lunatic.

Pathan
India to the Afghans, especially to those permanently settled in the See also: COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighborhood) Country and to those dwelling on the borderland It is apparently derived from the Afghan name for their own