Yaghistan

Yaghistan (Urdu: یاغستان) (The Land of Rebels) was a key frontier region between Afghanistan and British India.[1] This was an area where rebels lived, on either side of the Durand Line.[1]Yaghistani fighters included Pashtuns Yousafzais, mohmand, wazir and Kashmiris who were exiled during Kashmir conflict in 19th century. They all fought against british. For this reason, they were called rebels (baghi)(باغی).

History

Yāg͟histān was originally inhabited by Indo-Aryan Kōhistānī speakers.[2] Many areas of Pakhli were also part of Yaghistan.

Page no 73 of Hazara Gazetteer-1883 showing the areas of Pakhli. Some areas were part of Yaghistan.

Yāghistān was the center of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi's Silk Letter Movement.[3] The area was never conquered by the British Raj and its people and the unadministered tribes always remained hostile towards the British.[4]

According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Yaghistan "referred to different sanctuaries used by Mujahideen against the British authorities from early 19th to late 19th century, in the various independent tribal areas, mainly inhabited by the Pashtun, Kashmiri and Kohistani people in the hinterland of what became the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India such as the Mohmand Agency, Bunēr, Dīr, Swāt, Kohistān, Hazāra ."[5]

Notable people

References
  1. Hyman, Anthony (2002). "Nationalism in Afghanistan". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 34 (2): 306. JSTOR 3879829. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. Grierson, George Abraham (1921). Linguistic Survey of India: Volume X, Specimens of Languages of the Eranian Family. Superintendent of Government Printing. p. 5.
  3. Tabassum, Farhat (2006). Deoband Ulema's Movement for the Freedom of India (1st ed.). New Delhi: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind in association with Manak Publications. p. 47. ISBN 81-7827-147-8.
  4. Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim (1999). "Indus Kohistan An Historical and Ethnographie Outline". Central Asiatic Journal. Harrassowitz Verlag. 43 (1): 70–71. JSTOR 41928174.
  5. Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; Donzel, E. van; Heinrichs, W.P., eds. (2012). Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). BRILL. ISBN 9789004161214.

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