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Henry Walter Bellew (1834–92) was a surgeon and medical officer in the Indian Army who over the course of a long career undertook a number of political missions in Afghanistan and wrote several books on Indian and Afghan subjects. His A Grammar of the Pukkhto or Pukshto Language is a Pushto textbook written during his service in Peshawar. It was intended for use by British-Indian administrators in the North-West Frontier of British India (present-day Pakistan). As such, the work assumes that the student is already acquainted with Hindustani (Urdu ...