Posted on: 3 February 2011

Digital Rare Book :
The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush
By Sir George Scott Robertson
Published by Lawrence & Bullen, London - 1896


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Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/kfirshindukush00robegoog#page/n6/mode/2up

Download pdf Book : http://ia700201.us.archive.org/18/items/kfirshindukush00robegoog/kfirshindukush00robegoog.pdf

Thanks Amita for the link.

i have read the book ,makes interesting reading

Kafiristan was a place near Chitral (the scene of intermittent fighting between the British Indian Army and the Afghans for close to six decades). The entire area was a melting pot of civilizations down the ages (the Bamian Buddhas being an example) thanks to it being a strategic trade route. The Kafirs had a practice of burying wooden figurines about two feet high in their cemetries. The area has also been documented by Fosco Marain in his book Where Four Worlds Meet.