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Hazara and the Upper Indus

Village tales and lore of Hazara and the upper Indus, recorded in English by colonial officials with their notes on the people, customs, sayings and verse of the district.

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Oral Tradition from the Indus — J. F. A. McNair and Thomas Lambert BarlowNineteen village tales from Ghazi on the upper Indus, gathered over many years by Thomas Lambert Barlow of the Salt Revenue Department and put into English with Major J. F. A. McNair, each followed by explanatory notes on the people, customs, religion, sayings and verse of the district; the revised edition of 1908.