• SANDEEP SHARMA

What is Afghani literature? Who wrote it? Where are these writings now? With the emergence of perhaps these seemingly exogenous, situational or situated questions, prata prashnas (prata as we say ‘situated’ in Pashto; prashanas as we say ‘questions’ in Sanskrit), in the very beginning, concerns of this paper are limited. What is Afghani Literature is not speculative or prata ontological prashanas itself but it will help us reconstruct the remains of the reminder. This reminder, as a return gift of history, will give us glimpses into the questionable out of these questions: what the world thought and had come to know of Afghani Literature in particular. The history of texts in Afghanistan, Islamic and pre-Islamic, has always been complicated.1and 2 But in the immediate contemporary times, post and pre-Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), more stress, of research (perhaps in scientific and active scholarly slumber) has been on war, types of war and its implications, theories on rebuilding in Afghanistan as also on the paranoid theories of conspiracy.3 Amid this terrific activity of highly-cited war researches or the sleep running, no doubt some are still doing great researches on humanities in Afghanistan (and still much research is yet to be done on peripheries like of animals and plants or on the so called Ecohumanism). Very few researches of this sort do co-exist peacefully in the academia.4 Afghani literacy exists in the coins, commercial records, court documents, religions, orality and so on. This paper seeks to find the logies, of taalim (‘study’ in Dari) for the masses of Afghanistan down the lanes of history through these literacies with an Indian perspective, vaguely and particularly.

logies, Sikas,taalim. Avestan Script, Akkadian, Afghanologies.

"Afghanologies!", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.946-959, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908743.pdf

"Afghanologies!", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp946-959, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908743.pdf