Nuristani people
Sign in to savethumb|Kautiak villagers in Nuristan province with U.S. Navy commander (right) The Nuristanis are an Indo-Iranian ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province (formerly Kafiristan) of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian languages.
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- Nuristani community leaders inaugurated a solar energy project in Nuristan
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- Nuristan, Kunar, AfghanistanChitral, Pakistan
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- Sunni Islam
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- Kalash, Kho, Pashayi
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18 sectionsContents
- Pre-Islamic religion
- History
- Timur's encounter with Katirs/Kators
- Timur's encounter with Kam Kafirs
- Settlement in Chitral
- Pre-1895 Kafir society
- Origin hypotheses
- External contacts and cultural resilience
- 1895–1979: Integration and resistance
- Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)
- Genetics
- Tribes
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
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thumb|Kautiak villagers in Nuristan province with U.S. Navy commander (right) The Nuristanis are an Indo-Iranian ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province (formerly Kafiristan) of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian languages.
In the mid-1890s, after the establishment of the Durand Line when Afghanistan and the British Indian Empire reached an agreement regarding the Indo-Afghan border as the region of Kafiristan became part of the Great Game and for a period of time, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan conducted a military campaign to secure the eastern regions and followed up his conquest by imposition of Islam; the region thenceforth being known as Nuristan, the "Land of Light". Before their conversion, the Nuristanis practised an Indo-Iranian (Vedic- or Hindu-like) religion. Non-Muslim religious practices endure in Nuristan today to some degree as folk customs. In their native rural areas, they are often farmers, herders, and dairymen.
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