Author
Muhammad Zaman Sagar
Executive Director: Gawri Community Development Programme, Kalam, Swat & Senior Officer Advocacy: Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI), Islamabad
Oral history of Kalam: Part II Interviewee: Malik Namroz Khan, Yajgal, Kalam Translation: Muhammad Zaman Sagar The Khan of Jare had occupied Gabral. Some other Khans occupied Laikot, Pishmal and Asret. After occupying that places the Khans went to Gabral. When they were going back to their homes, they saw seven buffaloes with their calves near Asret. One Khan ordered his servants that he should bring those buffaloes to him. “I want to take them with me to my home”. He said. Someone said to him that that would be his (Khans’)…
Oral history Kalam—Part I Building of the historic mosque of Kalam Interviewee: Namroz Khan of Yajgal, Kalam Interviewer and translator: Muhammad Zaman Sagar Year: 1998 Kalam bazaar’s current famous historical mosque was built some seven to eight generations ago. If we count each generation as 25-30 years, then it becomes 200-240 years ago. That mosque was built by our forefathers. That place where the first mosque was built, that place was called the village of Khar. Soon after building that mosque the people of Kalam…
Abstract In 1921, George Grierson, the editor of the Linguistic Survey of India, wrote the following words about what we now call the “Kohistani” languages of northern Pakistan: “These languages are being gradually superseded by Pashto, and are dying out in the face of their more powerful neighbor. Those of the Swat and Indus Kohistans are disappearing before our eyes.” (Grierson 1921:124). More than 85 years later, there should be little left of these languages. However, Grierson was too pessimistic. Today, languages such…
