The Forward Policy and its Results, or Thirty-five Years' Work amongst the Tribes on Our North-Western Frontier of India

1901 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 569
Author(s):  
Alfred L. P. Dennis ◽  
Richard Isaac Bruce ◽  
Robert Warburton
Keyword(s):  
Western Frontier ◽  
North Western

scholarly journals X. Pisaca = ’Ωμοφάγος.

1905 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-288
Author(s):  
G. A. Grierson
Keyword(s):  
British India ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Frontier ◽  
North Western

As a contribution towards solving the question of the origin of the inhabitants of the North - Western Frontier of British India, i.e., of Gilgit, Chitral, and Kāfiristān, I would draw attention to the fact that several legends as to the early customs of these tribes point to cannibalism having once prevailed there. The interpretation of the word Piśāca as meaning ‘an eater of raw flesh,’ ’Ωμοφ⋯γος, is well known. Some of the legends have been printed, and of these I do not propose to give more than a brief sketch, with references to the authorities. Others, hitherto unpublished, I shall give at greater length.

Culturele diversiteit aan de Neder-Germaanse Limes

Lampas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-281
Author(s):  
Marenne Zandstra
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Frontier ◽  
Military Communities ◽  
North Western

Summary The forts and surrounding villages situated on the Lower German Limes were inhabited by people with very diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds. They came from all corners of the Roman Empire, and beyond, to the north-western frontier. In this article four case studies are put in the spotlight to illustrate the high rate of cultural diversity among these military communities.

scholarly journals Art. XXI.—On the Languages spoken beyond the North Western Frontier of India

1900 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-510
Author(s):  
George A. Grierson
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Frontier ◽  
North Western ◽  
Mountainous Country

Between the north-west frontier of our Indian Empire and the Pamirs there is a tract of mountainous country inhabited by many different nationalities, speaking many different tongues. The Pāmirs themselvesare a polyglot region. Taking Zēbāk, for instance, the district round it is the home of no less than four distinct speeches— one West-Iranian, Persian, and three East-Iranian, Wakhī, Shi ghī, and Ishkāshamīī. These last belong to the same Aryan group as Paksbtō. To the south-east of the Pāmirs we come to the Burushaskī spoken in Hunza and Nagar, a language of Scythian stock, whose immediate affinities have not yet been identified. South-east, again, of the Burushaskī area we come to Bāltistān, where another Scythian language, the Tibeto-Burman Bāltī, is the vernacular. In the valley of Kāshmīr;, there is Kāshmirī, and in the lower reaches of the Jhelum and in the Murree Hills, Chhibhālī, both of which are Indo - Aryan, and can be traced up to ancient Sanskrit. West of the Chhibhālī tract lies the British district of Hazara, of which the principal language is a form of Western Panjābī. Crossing the Indus we come to the Northern Pakhtō dialect of Pakshtō spoken in Peshawar, Ṣwāt, and Bajaur. West of Bajaur, beyond the Kunar River, we come to Laghmān. North of Laghmān lies Kāfiristān, through which we again reach the Pāmirs.

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