Dardu Legends, Riddles, Proverbs and Fables and History of Dardistan - Softcover

Leitner, Gottlieb Wilhelm

9784871877787: Dardu Legends, Riddles, Proverbs and Fables and History of Dardistan

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ISBN 10: 4871877787 ISBN 13: 9784871877787

Publisher: Ishi Press, 2017

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The history section describes the wars between the Sikhs and the people of Kashmir and Hunza and Chitral. It describes newborn babies being chopped up, torn apart and killed along with their mothers, except for the girls who happened to be beautiful whose lives were spared for the free sexual use by the Sikh warriors. These sections are not to be read by the faint of heart. These sections involve the Maharaja of Kashmir and are of historical importance because they describe events that led up to the partition of Pakistan and India in 1947 and the wars and conflicts that have taken place since that time. Three major wars have been fought between India and Pakistan in 1947, 1965 and 1971. Conflicts are being threatened all the time between those two countries. They both have the A-Bomb and there is always the fear they will start bombing each other. This book shows that these conflicts did not start in 1947. This book was an attachment, attached to a book entitled Languages and Races of Dardistan. This shows there has been fighting and killing between these groups going back at least to the early 1800s. At the time Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner or G. W. Leitner wrote this book, India was just one country as this was before the split in 1947. Leitner was one of the first adventurers to enter the remote mountains of what is now Northern Pakistan and India and live to tell about it. He undertook adventures and collected data about the people living there, walking as much as 35 miles per day and taking notes in the evenings. He wrote several books about this which unfortunately were printed in limited editions in Lahore and few survive. The book presented here is part of the first known reprint of any of Leitner's works.

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About the Author

Dr. Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner was born in Pest, Hungary, on 14 October 1840. As a linguist, he is said to have had acquaintance with some fifty languages, many of which he spoke fluently. In 1864, he became Principal of Government College University of Lahore (then British India, present day Pakistan). He was instrumental in the foundation of 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 in Amritsar, Punjab. These two volumes were later published in 1871 and 1876. In the 1870s, he undertook work for the Austrian, Prussian, and British Governments. His ambition was to found a center for the study in Europe of Oriental languages, culture and history. On his return to England in 1881, he sought a suitable site for his proposed institution and in 1883 came upon the vacant Royal Dramatic College in Woking. For the benefit of Muslim students, Leitner commissioned the construction of a mosque. The Shah Jahan Mosque was built in 1889 as one of the first mosques in Western Europe and the first purpose-built one in Britain. It survives to this day. G. W. Leitner died in London on 22 March 1899.

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