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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1864

1865

About 10 000 Mix-posh Kafirs of the Kamdz tribe who inhabit the upper or northern part of the valley of the Igish4fir or Chitral river lying nearest to the valley of the Kok-ehah river of Badakshan and north of the country held by the Kattar and Kampar tribes of Mit-posh are subject to the Shah to whom they pay a small tribute. [...] The dress of the people of Upper and Lower Kash-154r from the severe nature of the climate of the country consists of a number of garments worn one over the other. [...] The other exports besides slaves are unbleached silk the produce of the country and known amongst the traders of Kabul and other parts of Central Asia as korali* Klish-*dri ; shawls also the peculiar manufacture of the country the woof of which termed (44) pzid is sometimes of a coarse description of silk called pa((t by the gasIsfiris and sometimes of cotton and the warp called 03) tar [...] Krvcs of the Peshawar oracle notwithstanding) in which they themselves reign in feudal turbulency—consist of Pankorah including that part of the " Santa'ho—above the junction of the Panj-korah river with the river of Suwat called the district of Tah ; Suwit ; Buner ; and Chundah ; the whole lying to the north of the British possessions part of which includes the south-western portion of the [...] 137 The other streams in succession are the TY-sheri whose volume is the most considerable of the Panj-korah rivers and the Kirah both of which run in an almost parallel direction to the Tal with intervals of from twelve to twenty miles from each other ; and the Birih-wol from the north-west whose source is in the lofty hills held by the Silh-posh Kfifirs separating the valley of the Kash-lc
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Pages
133
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
An Account of Upper Kásh-kár and Chitrál or Lower Kásh-Kár together with the independent Afghán State of Panj-korah including Tál-ásh
125-151 The Secretaries view
On the System Employed in Outlining the Figures of Deities and other Religions Drawings as Practised in Ladak Zaskar &c.
151-154 The Secretaries view
Note on a Tank Section at Sea1dah Calcutta.—by H. F. Blanford A. R. S. M. F. G. S.
154-158 The Secretaries view
Memorandum on the life-Sized Statues Lately Exhumed Inside the Palace of Delhi.—by C. Campbell Esq. C. E.
159-161 The Secretaries view
Memoranda Relative to Three Andamanese in the Charge of Major Tickell when Deputy Commissioner of Amherst Tenasserim in 1861.—By Col. S. R. Tickell
162-173 The Secretaries view
On the Ruins of Buddha Gayá.—by Bábu Rájendralála Mitra
173-187 The Secretaries view
Description of a New Species of Paradoxurus from the Andaman Islands.—by Col. Tytler
188-188 The Secretaries view
Extract from Journal of a Trip to Bhamo.—by Dr. C. Williams
189-195 The Secretaries view
Note on the Gibbon of Tenasserim Hylobates lar.—by Lieut.-Col. S. R. Tickell; in a letter to A. Grote Esq.
196-199 The Secretaries view
Literary Intelligence
199-209 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for March 1864
210-221 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the Month of January 1864
i-xxiv The Secretaries view

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