Download or read book The K firs of the Hindu Kush written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafiristan, or "The Land of the Infidels," was a region of eastern Afghanistan where the inhabitants had retained their traditional pagan culture and religion and rejected conversion to Islam. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush is a detailed ethnographic account of the Kafirs, written by George Scott Robertson (1852-1916), a British administrator in India. With the approval of the government of India, Robertson made a preliminary visit to Kafiristan in October 1889, and then lived among the Kafirs for almost a year, from October 1890 to September 1891. Robertson describes his journey from Chitral (in present-day Pakistan) to Kafiristan and the difficulties he encountered in traveling about the country and in gaining information about the Kafir culture and religion. The latter, he writes, "is a somewhat low form of idolatry, with an admixture of ancestor-worship and some traces of fire-worship also. The gods and goddesses are numerous, and of varying degrees of importance or popularity." Robertson describes religious practices and ceremonies, the tribal and clan structure of Kafir society, the role of slavery, the different villages in the region, and everyday life and social customs, including dress, diet, festivals, sport, the role of women in society, and much else that he observed first-hand. The book is illustrated with drawings, and it concludes with a large fold-out topographical map, which shows the author's route in Kafiristan. In 1896 the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901), conquered the area and brought it under Afghan control. The Kafirs became Muslims and in 1906 the region was renamed Nuristan, meaning the "Land of Light," a reference to the enlightenment brought by Islam.
Download or read book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush written by Max Klimburg and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The K firs of the Hindu Kush written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...upper villagers had declared that the Frank was of no use to them, as he gave them nothing, but reserved all his favours for the eastern villagers; while the latter indignantly, and with truth, denied the accusation. The next few days were busily employed by me in pouring oil on the troubled waters. These efforts were attended with a fair measure of success, when an unlucky DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER VILLAGE 331 fight between two women in the upper village led to a general disturbance there. The quarrel itself was soon settled, but the general excitement remained, and soon found an outlet for its energy by re-starting the old contentions about me with the east village. And now matters went from bad to worse. The malcontents were careful to explain that against me personally they had no complaint, and several of them added, that should existing dissensions go to an extreme length and fighting occur, every one respected me so much that not a hair of my head would be injured. But my friends were rapidly becoming cowed by the majority, and there was no real danger of a fight. They were alternately accused of receiving my money and taunted with not supporting me better. It was at length agreed that a certain test should be applied, to discover if my friendship for the Kaua were sincere or not. Acting on this suggestion, headmen representing the whole of the tribe, came to ask me to send for a force of Chitralis, to cooperate with the Kafirs in a raiding expedition. The spokesman declared that it was well known to all the village that the Mehtar would do anything to please me, and that if he were asked for rifles, he would certainly send them. They argued, also, that the Mehtar would be delighted at the chance afforded him of capturing prisoners...
Download or read book The K firs of the Hindu Kush written by George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush written by George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative about Kafiristan now known as Nuristan in Afghanistan before the invasion of 1892 when all the inhabitants were forcibly converted to Islam.
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Download or read book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush written by George Scott Robertson, Sir and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush Text written by Max Klimburg and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh. This book was released on 1999 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study deals with the pre-Islamic culture of two linguistically close ethnic groups who live in NE-Afghanistan in the Hindukush region once known as Kafiristan, but renamed as Nuristan after its Islamization in 1896. The author was able to conduct extensive field research which enabled him to reconstruct for the first time the Kafir culture of the two groups in all its essential aspects. He discusses the former religious and socio-political concepts with their belief systems and rituals, social ranks, feasts of merit, hero cults etc. The main focus of the study, however, is on the arts which flourished mostly in socially meaningful wood carvings, and which had survived Islamization and the trade in ethnographic art until the 1970s. The many Kafir artefacts of each stylistic subregion are presented in a relative chronological order and interpreted as far as possible. Far reaching changes in the period styles betray major shifts in the Kafir culture shortly before its forcible end one century ago. "Un ouvrage donc, au propre et au figur�, de poids et de prix, donnant un tableau tr�s complet du Kafirstan et des Kafirs d'avant la conqu�te. Magnifiquement illustr�, le corpus rassembl� dans le volume de planches est unique et presque exhaustif. Il est un hommage � un art du bois exceptionnel, dont les �uvres sont h�las condamn�es � la dilapidation et au pillage qui accompagnent la guerre civile afghane." L'Homme "His book is of course indispensable for anyone with a scholarly interest in the Hindu Kush and neighbouring areas�" Folk .
Download or read book The K firs of the Hindu Kush written by George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The K firs of the Hindu Kush Classic Reprint written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush This book is the record of a journey to one of these countries, and of nearly a year spent amongst a wild and interesting people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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