Download or read book The Red Kafirs written by M. A. Shakur and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kalash Siaposh Kafirs History and Customs by Charles Masson written by Charles Masson and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one chapter, Chapter XI, of the book "Narrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab and Kalat 1826-1838" by Charles Masson. This chapter describes the "Siaposh Kafirs" or "Wearers of the Black Robes." The Siaposh Kafirs are now known as the Kalash. They inhabit three valleys in Chitral in NorthWest Pakistan. The valleys are Bumboret, Birir and Rumbur. There are now only three thousand of these Kalash left. The rest have converted to Islam. However, their numbers are increasing, with more babies being born and a decline in the infant mortality rare. There are two kinds of Kafirs: Red and Black. The Red Kafirs are now called the Nuristanis. They inhabit the area of Nuristan in Afghanistan. There are also some Nuristani villages in the far upper parts of Bumboret, Birir and Rumbur. The Black Kafirs are known for wearing Black dress. You will see references to the color Black in the pages here. For example: "The males of the infidels, whose souls are said to have been more black than their garments," This book was first published in 1844. In spite of the passage of 127 years, little has changed. The females still wear the same black outfits with a headdress made of corwie shells and they dance in the same way. There are differences of opinion as to whether the Kalash have or had the same religion as the Nuristanis and whether they are the same people. The similarities between them are that they both do not bury their dead but put their dead in wooden boxes above ground, and both sit on small wooden stools and do not sit on the ground.
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 684 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.
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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 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Contributions written by Brooklyn Botanic Garden and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series consists of papers originally published in botanical or other periodicals, re-issued as "separates" without change of paging, and numbered consecutively.
Download or read book Contributions Brooklyn Botanic Garden written by Brooklyn Botanic Garden and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series consists of papers originally published in botanical or other periodicals, re-issued as "separates" without change of paging, and numbered consecutively.
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Download or read book Sorghum Smuts and Varietal Resistance in Sorghums written by George Matthew Reed and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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