Henry George Raverty

Henry George Raverty

Henry George Raverty (1825-1906) was a British Indian Army officer and linguist. He served from 1843 to 1864, rising to the rank of Major, in the Bombay Native Infantry.

He fought in the Punjab campaign of 1849-1850 and Swat campaign of 1850. He compiled a Gazetteer of Peshawar. While serving in Peshawar he was taught Pushto by the scholar Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai [ [http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/030316/books4.htm Articles: Thinking like a Pathan - Dawn Pakistan] ] and he began to survey Afghan poetry. [ [http://www.the-south-asian.com/April2004/Books-Pathans-2.htm The Pathans – Classic Works & Reading] ]

Works

*A Grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto or Language of the Afghans (1855)
*Thesaurus of English and Hindūstānī Technical Terms (1859)
*A Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pushto, or Language of the Afghans (1860)
*Selections from the poetry of the Afghans (1867)
*The Tabakat-i-Nasiri of Minhaj-i-Saraj, Abu-Umar-i-Usman: A general history of the Muhammadan dynasties of Asia, including Hindustan from A. H. 194 (810 A. D.) to A. H. 658 (1260 A. D.), and the irruption of the infidel Mughals into Islam (1873-1881) translator
*Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan (1881-1888)

References

*"Concise Dictionary of National Biography"

External links

* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/spa/index.htm Sacred-texts: Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans, full text]

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