Balochistan Bibliography (An exhaustive and comprehensive collection of citations on Balochistan) By Hameed Baloch Balochistan Bibliography Sayad Hashmi Reference Library Dahqan Garden, Malok Hotel, Malir Karachi © 2006 © 2006 Sayad Hashmi Reference Library, This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Sayad Hashmi Reference Library. The Publisher has used its best endeavors to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the Publisher has no responsibility for the Websites and can make no guarantee that a site remains live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Printed in Pakistan. BalochWarna.org 2 Balochistan Bibliography Table of contents Preface Archaeology and Anthropology Archives Balochi Literature and language Balochi songs, culture, and rugs Biological Sciences Dissertations Geography and travelogues Government reports, History Office correspondences and speeches Physical Sciences (i) Geology (ii) Hydrology (iii) Mineralogy (iv) Paleontology (v) Physical Sciences (vi) Seismology Political Science Religious Studies Sociology and Social Sciences Websites and Newspapers Women Studies Index BalochWarna.org 3 Balochistan Bibliography Preface The area that called Balochistan is bigger than France, the homeland of the Baloch people, is situated between the Western borderland of Pakistan and Eastern Iran. In south, the area covered 900 miles of the Arabian Sea coastline; the Kerman province of Iran to the West; Seistan, Afghanistan and NWFP province of Pakistan in the north; and Sindh and Punjab in the east. The area of Balochistan is divided into three neighboring countries, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. However majority of the Baloch people live in Pakistani province of Balochistan. Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province and comprises the 43% of total land mass however shared only 8% of the total population of Pakistan. In history, due to its strategic position, the area was encountered with different foreign invaders such as, Macedonians, Sassanids, Persians, Sindhi Brahmins, Arabs, Mughals and finally by English. However, none of these had made any permanent settlement in this area due to lack of water and the harsh environmental condition. They just used the area as a corridor of India or as a stopover. These foreign invaders were more interested in invading the Indian plains rather then the barren and rugged mountains of Balochistan. Due to this strategic importance, Balochistan was always remains as the focal point of western scholars. Many researches, surveys, seminars and conferences have been undertaken to study the land and the people of Balochistan that resulted into a tremendous amount of books, dissertations, memoirs and articles which have been published across the globe. But, so far, (except few half heartedly attempts which were taken by Billimoria in 30s and by N. Gichki in 1996) no systematic efforts have been made to encompass these voluminous treasures of knowledge. This book is the result of a humble attempt to fill this gap. The bibliography includes studies which have emerged in several published or unpublished forms such as book, chapter in a book, journal article, doctoral dissertation (Published and unpublished), conferences, Government documents, archives, studies in languages other than English, etc. This bibliography lists more then 3800 entries, which cover almost all areas in which these studies have been done. Each entry is given a serial number. Within each subject all entries are arranged alphabetically according to the first author’s name. Entries for personal names have been rendered under their surnames wherever available. I tried to mention the names of all contributors of a single article however in scientific papers which are the result of collaborations among different groups and institutions, that resulted into huge list of authors and due to space problem I omitted the names of rest of authors except the first author by adding et. al. For instances, Kassi et. al. (2004) means there are more then three contributors. Most of the Government publications and newspaper’s editorials didn’t mention the name(s) of author and editorial board respectively; in these situations I added “anonymous” as a name of author. Bibliographical information has been given in the following manner- (a) Journal article Name of author: Year: Title: Name of Journal: Volume (number): pages. (b) Newspaper articles: Name of author (if available): Year: Title: Name of newspaper: Date: Year: Page No. Column No. BalochWarna.org 4 Balochistan Bibliography (c) Book Author name, Year, Title, Place of publication: Publisher, number of pages. (d) Dissertation: Author: Year: Title: Name of the degree: Name of the University and number of Pages (if available). (f) Conference proceedings Author, Year, Title of article, Title of book or proceeding in which that article written, Name of editor(s), Number of pages of that article, Place of publication, Publisher, Total number of pages (if available). (g) Official correspondence. Name of addressing person: Year: name of the person who was addressed: date and location from where correspondence happened: Title of the book or Journal in which that correspondence cited. Named of editor(s), Place of publication, Publisher and number of pages in which correspondence cited. (h) Archives Name of the Institution where these archives available and there catalogue number according to there database system. A comprehensive Author index which serve as key to the entire book, have been provides at the end. I believe that the Balochistan bibliography with all its shortcomings will certainly be useful to prospective research scholars, administrators, planners and policy makers who are actively associated with Baloch, Balochi and Balochistan. Similarly this bibliography is also helpful in making an idea about the particular interest of concerning groups in Balochistan. Acknowledgement The “knowledge explosion” in recent decades and availability of extensive databases in Western Universities make it easier to undertake the task of preparing bibliography. However universities of third world countries are starving from these accesses and it is almost impossible for any one person to undertake the arduous task of preparing a bibliography of this nature and magnitude. I am lucky enough of living in Canada where it is easy to access to any database. I wish to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Nadir Khairzai, who hosted me during my trips at Toronto and Mr. Amir Durrazai, Majeed Saeedi, and Ayaz Buzdar for there help and encouragement. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Professor Saba Dashtyari, a leading participant of Balochi literature in Pakistan, who gave me encouragement from the very beginning of this work. His valuable suggestions and advice helped me in clarifying different facets of the subject. The staff of MacKimmie library, University of Calgary, Alberta, was extremely helpful in obtaining many books and letting me to use the University database. BalochWarna.org 5 Balochistan Bibliography I need hardly thank my friend Wahid Comrade of Sayad Hashmi Reference Library who helped me in pasting and publication of the bibliography. Hameed Baloch September 26, 2005 Calgary, Alberta, Canada BalochWarna.org 6 Balochistan Bibliography Archaeology and Anthropology (1) Aalto P. (1971) Marginal notes on the Meluhha problem. In “K.A.N. Shastri Felicitation Volume. Madras. (2) Ali I. (1990) The Matheson collection of pottery from Baluchistan. Ancient Pakistan, pp. 1-25. (3) Andrews, F.H. (1925) Painted Neolithic pottery in Sistan discovered by Sir Aurel Stein. Burlington Mag., London, Vol. 47: pp. 304-308 (4) Anonymous (1894) Antiquities and ethnography of Las Bela and Mekran. Calcutta. (5) (1908) Anthropometric data from Baluchistan. In: Ethnographic Survey of India, Calcutta. (6) (1928) Stone monuments of Baluchistan. Antiquity. -- Gloucester, Eng. Vol. II: pp. 90-91, II pl. (7) (1930) Sir Aurel Stein's expeditions in Baluchistan, 1927-28. Annual Bibliography of Indian archaeology for the year 1928. -- Leyden, pp. 13-16, map. (8) (1931) Exploration of prehistoric mounds in Baluchistan. Annual Bibliography of Indian archaeology for the year 1929. -- Leyden. p. 14-18, illus. 4- 7 [incl. map] (9) (1956) Archaeological notes from Kharan. American Documentation Institute (ADIM), c/o Photo-duplication Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. No. 5286: pp. 39-49. (10) (?) Excavations in Baluchistan. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India #35. (11) (2000) Qadīm Shālkot, maujudah Koiah: ubah-i Balocistān ke dārulkhilāfah kā tārīkhī pas manzar. Quetta: Nūrī Nasīr Khān Markaz Ishāat, 2000. 27 p. (In Urdu). (12) Ansari, M. (2003) The Guns of Mehrgarh. Archaeology; Vol. 56(2): p62, 5p, 1 map, 5c (13) Aruz, J. and R. Wallenfels, (2003) Art of the first cities: the third millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, xxiv, 540 (14) Asthana, S. (1985) Pre-Harappan cultures of India and the borderlands. New BalochWarna.org 7 Balochistan Bibliography Delhi: Books & Books. xiv, 280p. plates: ill., folded charts, maps. (15) (1987) Revised chronological framework for prehistoric cultures of Northern Baluchistan. In: Pande, B.M.; Chattopadhyaya, B.D., eds.