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DARDISTAN , a purely conventional name given by scientists to a See also:

tract of See also:country on the See also:north-See also:west frontier of See also:India. There is no See also:modern See also:race called Dards, and no country so named by its inhabitants, but the inhabitants of the right See also:bank of the See also:Indus, from the Kandia See also:river to Batera, apply it to the dwellers on the See also:left bank. In the scientific use of the appellation, Dardistan comprises the whole of See also:Chitral, Yasin, Panyal, the See also:Gilgit valley, See also:Hunza and See also:Nagar, the See also:Astor valley, the Indus valley from Bunji to Batera, the See also:Kohistan-Malazai, i.e. the upper reaches of the Panjkora river, and the Kohistan of See also:Swat. The so-called Dard races are referred to by See also:Pliny and See also:Ptolemy, and are supposed to be a See also:people of See also:Aryan origin who ascended the Indus valley from the plains of the See also:Punjab, reaching as far north as Chitral, where they dispossessed the Khos. They have left their traces in the different dialects, Khoswar, Burishki and Shina, spoken in the Gilgit agency. The question of Dardistan is debated at length in See also:Leitner's Dardistan (1877) ; See also:Drew's Jummoo and See also:Kashmir Territories (1875); Biddulph's Tribes of the See also:Hindu-Kush (1880) and See also:Durand's The Making of a Frontier (1899). For further details see GILGIT.

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