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050	0	0	_aDS354.6. _bK3. _cR634 1896
100	1		_aRobertson, George Scott, Sir, _d1852-1916.
245	1	4	_aThe Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush / _cby Sir George Scott Robertson ; illustrated by A. D. Mccormick.
260			_aLondon : _bLawrence & Bullen, Ltd., _c1896.
300			_axx, 658 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush”—title page.
500			_a“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”—copied from website.
500			_aThe Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
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650		0	_aNuristani (Asian people).
650		0	_aNuristan (Afghanistan : Region) – Description and travel.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds354_6_k3_r634_1896 _zScanned for ACKU.
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