Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh

Description

The book presents two perspectives in the analysis of the tribes of the Hindoo Kush region of Central Asia. The first half of the book is a geographical and anthropological account of Dardistan in the last quarter of the 19th century, while the second half is devoted to the linguistics of the region beginning a systematic investigation into the vocabulary and grammar of the Dardic and Kafir languages.