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	kafir - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include kafir: kafir corn, hindukush black-robed kafir people, hindukush kafir people
		Words similar to kafir: caffer, caffre, kaffir, more...
		noun: a member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan
	www.onelook.com /?w=kafir&last=koira&loc=spell (194 words)

	A SYNOPTICAL VIEW OF THE KAMBOJA TRIBE
		Ancient Kamboja country was mostly a hilly and cold land comprising Hindukush mountain range, Badakshan and parts of Tajikstan and Uzbekstan land north of Oxus river where fine varieties of grapes, pistachio, walnuts, almonds, kesera etc were abundantly grown and are still grown and which formed an important constituent of Kamboja People's diet.
		One tribal section of Shiaposh Kafir Kambojas of the Hindukush does call itself as Kamoz, but that is only a dialectical variation confined to a restricted and isolated region only.
		The fact that the Kautalya's Arathasastra calles the Kamboja people as Kambhoja (Ref: Kautalya'a Arathasatra 1956 translated by Dr R Shamasastry, page 407, book XI, Chapter I) obviously refers to the Persian influence (Dr N. Sastri, Dr D. Kosambi etc) on the customs and language and name of the Kamboja people of 3/4
	www.angelfire.com /bc/bchandi/kamboj.html (4161 words)

	Articles - Kafirs of Hindukush
		Their present ideas and all the associations of their history and religion are simply bloodshed, assassinations and blackmailing; yet the Kafirs, though a highly wild people, are not savages.
		The people were formerly known as Kafirs which is also a well-known Muslim appellation for those not believing in Islam or the teachings of prophet Muhammad.
		The Kafir religion was a strange mixture of Zoroastrian rituals, Hindu beliefs, Buddhist tennets and quaint ceremonies and paganism reminiscent of the mythology of Greece.
	www.mountainbikescenter.com /articles/Kafirs_of_Hindukush (3786 words)

	The goat sacrifice 1929
		And the people, the 10-12 Kafir men, sing along.
		Cheese and milk is sacrificed on the fire and the rest of the cheese is eaten by the Kafirs.
		It was still in use in 1998, at the sacrifices performed by the last of the Kafir tribes, the Kalasha.
	www.nb.no /baser/morgenstierne/nirmali/nirmali/Imra/Text/sacrifice/sacrifice29.html (1132 words)

	Georg Morgenstierne -- map
		The several thousand Kalash of the area are today the only people who still adhere to the old Kafir religion and customs.
		As long as the area knew no borders, it was a stronghold of the Kafir religion and militant anti-islamic activity.
		He succeeded in 1896, with an attack from three sides, defeating the Kafir tribes, converting and depriving them of their old religious symbols.
	www.nb.no /baser/morgenstierne/english/map.html (394 words)

	PWHCE - Excerpt from A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
		Notes on the Bashgali (Kafir) Language, by Colonel J. Davidson of the Indian Staff Corps, Calcutta, 1901, had been assembled by the author after a two-year sojourn in Chitral with the assistance of two Kafirs of the Bashgali tribe and consisted of a grammar of the language and a collection of sentences.
		Remarks something like 'Though I say it who shouldn't, I'm a pretty good mountaineer, but this was the hardest graft I ever remember,' cut very little ice with people in our position about to embark on a similar venture with no qualifications at all.
		by a Russian savant, a M. Terentief, gave a translation of what he said was the Lord's Prayer in the language of the Bolors or Siah-Posh Kafirs:
	www.pwhce.org /doc1afg.html (1724 words)

	Tourism
		Kafir Kalash meaning the black infidels are undoubtedly a major attraction for visitors and tourists to beautiful Chitral valley, people of Kalash now reduced to mere 3000 in number belong to a diminishing culture living in about 20 villages in southwest of Chitral in the Hindukush range bordering Afghanistan.
		Historical studies of Chitral and Hindukush areas have revealed that Kalash once ruled over a large territory spreading from south west of Chitral and extending upto some eastern parts of Afghanistan, there was a strong central Kingdom controlling a large number of small participalities spread over the valley.
		Kalash of today are an arrested civilization confined to their abode in hilly areas of Hindukush, with their old customs and practices intact and embedded in ancient history.
	www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2001/issue10/etc4.htm (532 words)

	Kalash People's Literature
		The Kalash Kafir religion which is still practiced today by about 3,000 people in Chitral has a resemblance to the ancient Greek religion of gods and goddesses.
		Khowar is the language of the Kalash tribe, spoken in Chitral, which is in the far Northwest corner of Pakistan; a beautiful valley in the Hindukush range of Mountains.
		These "boxes" were actually coffins for their dead following the custom which the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral still have of leaving their dead outside in wooden coffins.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /chitral.htm (1107 words)

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		Ancient Kamboja country was mostly a hilly and cold land comprising Hindukush mountain range, Badakshan and parts of Tajikstan and Uzbekstan land north of Oxus river where fine varieties of grapes, pistachio, walnuts, almonds, kesera etc were abundantly grown and are still grown and which formed an important constituent of Kamboja People's diet.
		One tribal section of Shiaposh Kafir Kambojas of the Hindukush does call itself as Kamoz, but that is only a dialectical variation confined to a restricted and isolated region only.
		Furthermore, the Kamboja people were epicurean and aristocratic class of people, besides being excellent warriors and Vedic scholars (Kritvidyashach) during Yaskian and Epic periods.
	www.thekamboh.com /pages/history/history_4.htm (603 words)

	Articles - Kafirs
		The term Kafir also refers to a member of a race of people inhabiting Nuristan, the mountainous country north and east of Afghanistan which till 1895 was known as Kafirstan, meaning the land of the Kafirs (infidels or idolators).
		It is stated that the appellation Kafir in reference to Hindukush Kafirs has philogically evolved from an ancient term 'Kapir'.
		The term Kipin is Chinese equivalent for Kapir (Dr Levi) which the Chinese used for ancient Kapisha, now Kafirstan (Dr L. Petech, Dr E. Rapson, Dr S Konow, Dr P. Bagchi).
	www.poncier.com /articles/Kafirs (603 words)

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		Those Iranians that told you foreigners are Kafir, they are plainly stupid, people of book are fine to engage with and eat with.
		There are real Kafirs who enjoy Shia Sunni confilicts.
		It will be funny if I say Hindukush mountains had once produced a nation called Hazaras.
	www.hazara.org /guestbook.php (15004 words)

	Punjabi.net discussions chat forums
		DONALD N. “Parts of Nuristan (Kafirstan) formed a portion of Greek satrapy of the Paropamisadae in the fourth and third c B.C. The People were then called Kambojas and described as of mixed Indo-Iranian descent.
		He put his findings in a book called “The Kafirs of Hindukush”.
		There is nobody in Kafirstan so greedy and avaricious as he is, yet if you offer him a Lakh of rupees (wow a Lakh in 1896!!!!), he can not accept it.
	www.punjabi.net /talk/messages/1/59914.html?1093229901 (15004 words)

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