DARDISTAN IN 1866, 1886, and 1893. Being An Account of the History, Religions, Customs, Legends, Fables and Songs of the Gilgit, Chilas, Bandia (Gabrial), Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagyr and other Parts of the Hindukush: The Hunza and Nagyr Handbook. (Leitner, G.W. )

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DARDISTAN IN 1866, 1886, and 1893. Being An Account of the History, Religions, Customs, Legends, Fables and Songs of the Gilgit, Chilas, Bandia (Gabrial), Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagyr and other Parts of the Hindukush: The Hunza and Nagyr Handbook.
By Leitner, G.W.
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New Delhi, 1978 [1893]. 200+ pp, photos, maps. In 1864, he was asked to become Principal of Government College at Lahore (now Pakistan), and soon succeeded in raising its status to the University of the Punjab. He founded many schools, literary associations, public libraries and academic journals, while at the same time dedicating himself to the study of the cultures of the Indian subcontinent.

During this period he wrote a scholarly and comprehensive book in Urdu, History of Islam, in two volumes, with the help of an Urdu Muslim scholar, Maulvi Karim-ud-Din, who was at that time District Inspector of Schools, Amritsar, Punjab. These two volumes were later published in 1871 and 1876. This owrk is one of the first scholarly studies of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush. Hardcover, leather bound, as New.

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