Frontier speaks ... Foreword by Jawaharlal Lal Nehru. Preface by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Maps by Sardar Abdur Rauf

Anarkali, Lahore, [Pakistan]: Minerva Book Shop, 1942. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, [2], 248; errata slip tipped in at the end; portrait frontispiece, 5 maps (1 folding); very good, sound, and clean copy in original red cloth stamped in black, preserving an unclipped dust jacket with chips out at the spine ends, and with short tears and losses. Ownership stamp of Frank Shaffer on front free endpaper - Shaffer likely the World War II vet, a Corporal in the Army Air Forces. Mohammad Yunus Khan (1916-2001) "was a member of Indian Foreign Service. He served as ambassador to Turkey, Indonesia, Iraq, and Spain. He promoted trade between India and the rest of the world through regular trade fairs and the establishment of exhibition complex at Pragati Maidan in Delhi. He also headed the erstwhile Trade Fair Authority of India which is now rebranded as India Trade Promotion Organization. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan" (Wikipedia). Frontier Speaks is Yunus's first book and contains a foreword by Nehru. It concerns the history and peoples of the North-West Frontier, with a section entitled "Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his Movement." Khan was the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India, and for this reason the book was banned by the British government in 1942. (Inventory #: 69368)