On Kho Identity of Chitral whether they are more Dardic, more Pamiri or mixed?
Sau-Malik of Gilgit and Chitral and the Mongol War More often than not hidden in the annals of history are instances of smaller nations and kingdoms putting up resistance against vast invading armies. This quality is intrinsic to the sons…
Arandu lies about a hundred kilometers due southwest from Chitral Town and is where our river flows into Afghanistan
Shandur is a mystical place, In Khowar folklore the high mountains are home to fairies. These fairies can be both benign and evil.
Those who are interested in knowledge production and dissemination about the mountain communities of High Asia and South Asia please share their papers on a wide range of themes mentioned below.
Historicizing Bear in Chitral The history of Chitral, on some of the themes, is replete with symbolism and anecdotes, and some ways it wants indigenous perspectives to taking the readers, from variety of sources, to the point of interest.…
The Buddhist history of Chitral was long forgotten before the esteemed archaeologist and well known orientalist Sir Aurel Stein paid several visits to the valley in the early 1900s and uncovered this hidden story.
In his research article , ‘Fence of Peristan – The Islamization of the “Kafirs” and Their Domestication’, published in 2016 in the Italian scientific journal "Archivio per l'Antropologia e la Enologia " Alberto Cacopardo suggests ‘Peristan’…
By Artem Zurabovich & Sviatoslav Kaverin (The writers are young Russian researchers who take keen interest in the history, languages, music and handicrafts of highlanders in the Pamir-Hindukush area.) Dards are a group of peoples who…
