Some important info: The Kafiristani religion was an Indo-Iranian religion, just like Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Yazidism, etc. These all descend from a common religion, in which gods like Indra, Yama, Dyaus, Agni, etc (these are the sanskrit names, the names are different in different languages) were worshipped, in which religious poetry and fire was really important, etc. This is why there are so many similiarities between these religions.
All bs😂 I’ve been to Nuristan and seen their old religions. They aren’t Hindus infact they where pagans who worshiped there dead tribe leaders or their grandparents.
I’m no expert, but While Zoroastrianism has elements similar to the Abraham’s ones, it has “deities” similar to Hindu ones. Zoroastrians have demons called devas, which include Indra, and are like Hindu Devas. There was also a religion before Zoroastrianism which was also related to Hinduism.
@@rollinghippo2940 Only in that they are monotheistic. Otherwise, they are much more similar to Hinduism, for ex, they revere fire and memorise very old hymns and use them in prayer.
A Kalash here from Chitral, Pakistan. This was an interesting video, and I hope we see more of this content on RUclips. I need to add some things here: Kafiristan was not always a part of Afghanistan. In fact, it was an autonomous region under the protection of the Chitral Kingdom, and often Kalash chiefs were made governors of Kafiristan by our Katoor kings. Kafiristan was occupied by the Afghans when Chitral came under the British influence, and the Afghans broke the peace treaty between Chitral and Afghanistan. The Katoor kings were our biggest patrons, and they were the ones who protected the Nuristanis from conversion by invaders; it was not only because they were isolated. When the Afghans attacked Nuristan, many Nuristanis moved to Chitral and continued their religion. The last one converted, if I remember correctly, in the 1980s. Another thing: all of the images you used here are of us Kalash, not Nooristanis. Anyways, I enjoyed it and learned something new today. 👍🏻 Also, to my Indian brothers in the comment section, we Kalash are not Hindus. Our religion is much older than Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. 🙏🏻 Greetings from Chitral ֎ 🇵🇰
what do u even know about hinduism to say anything is older/newer? Also, Hinduism is a dharma not religion, they are different things. There's solid proof of hindu deities being worshipped as far back as indus valley civilisation and who knows how further back it goes. So I'd also suggest the same to u as well, don't try to put forth any claims about Hinduism either. I have no interest claiming kalash religion as part of hinduism. A few internet videos don't represent us. Do what u want.
Hinduism is a very diverse religion, or we could also say that it's the absence of organised religion. For example the gods and practices of different regions in India are very different from each other. The primary god mentioned in video (imra) sounds very similar to god Indra, who is the king of all devtas (other gods). I wish you well my brother.
Love from Gilgit bro, hope you're keeping your traditions safe. ❤ Can u give me some reference readings about Kalash history and culture. Some books or some research papers, thanks. @alborzkalash
@@GaurangAsthana Proof? Trust me bro😂 Until the indus valley language is completely decoded nobody can say for sure what their religion was or even that they were religious at all.
The area of Kafiristan Watts visited was the Bashgal Valley, which was tributary to Chitral. The Eastern portion of Kafiristan was controlled by the Mehtar of Chitral and they gave him a yearly tribute and fought for him in times of war. The Katoor Dynasty of Chitral was always very friendly with the non-Muslim tribes of the region, both the Kalash and the Bashgal Kafirs.
Take a look here 1) Muslim killed and ra*ped Yazidi ( nature worshipers & fire worshiper) in Iraq 2014 genocide 2) Muslim forcefully converted kalash people in pakistan and married them, in 1951 there was 50000-60000 kalash people in pakistan but now only 6000-7000 kalash. 3) early Cristian killed Nature worshiper & fire worshiper) and named them pagan (polytheistic) 4) alexander came in Bharat for fighting against porus he burned many pakistani village ( Bharat) he want to conquere India but his Army refused to attack on nand empire because alexender defeated porus but he struggled too much he got impressed from porus and become his friend but Nand empire so they returned to their past territory without fighting Nand empire,but their is story that alexender's minister went to chitral and learned kalash culture but Kalash have different ancestors. 5) now Hindu word it is not originally from Indian literature because in Indian literature sanatana Dharma Bharat ved These things are mentioned. Hindu name given by Persian to people of East sindhu half pakistan and Northern India. there have two types of Hindava mentioned in Avesta one who slaughter cows, promote violence falsehood and second who prefers cow as sacred and protect them follow truth and wisdom and rigveda says the same thing. and second one who follows path of ahura mazda is called Aryans in Avesta Avestan: Vendidad 4.49 "gavō khshāthrō ārmaitish khshāthrē ahurā mazdā" Who hurts the cow, hurts Ahura Mazda Rigveda 8.101.15 "मा गामानागामदिति मा वधिष्ट मा पार्षदत् | मा निष्क्रीतिं पार्षदत् मा वधिष्ट मा गाम् ||" "May the cow not be slaughtered, may it not be killed, may it not be harmed. May its slaughter not be approved, may it not be killed, may the cow be protected. ( There have hundreds of verse like this in Rigveda avesta both) 6) Sanatan Dharma and Bharat is original name it is mentioned in all hindu jain buddh litrature , Sanatan dharma Means eternal duty or eternal Order, it's a dharmic concept not Abrahamic concept. In japan India is called TENJIKU ( land of heaven) in Tibetan culture bharat is Called Phagsul & rgyagar & Sangyekyiyul ( land of Arya 8 sages atri bharadwaj kashyap etc..& land of dark sprituality & land of budhha) 7) sanatana Dharma ( Hindu jain buddh... ) worship nature, worship duality nothing is god everything is god, worship murti ( Sagun god with shape) , worship parabramh ( nirgun god without shape) concept of superiority oneness , diverse idiology means sanatan dharma. One devote of Shiva mainly in south india worship him with music dance art devotion and another devote of Shiva worship him as form of nature mainly in Kashmir Uttarakhand Himachal Pradesh laddakh and uper North area of India-Pakistan ( bharat)Pashupatinath seel founded in harrapan civilization god of animals god of gods. Ancient Dharma civilizations culture of Bharat. Vishnu Shakti Also. 8) During colonisation a britisher Edward Burnet Tylor gave animism word to animal worshiper ( Nature is supreme) in 1871 , this word is Also used by Georg Ernst Stahl between 1710 to 1730 something for spirit , before 17-18century there was no word like animism..... 9) it doesn't matters that who is old only thing matters that are they connected or not, they all Kalash,Yazidi ( pre Indo-Iranian people) , Hindu Jain Buddh, Zoroastrianism, pagan, tengist are part of same culture. To all and for converted who Is identifying as Nuristani 1) Muslim killed and ra*ped Yazidi ( nature worshipers & fire worshiper) in Iraq 2014 genocide 2) Muslim forcefully converted kalash people in pakistan and married them, in 1951 there was 50000-60000 kalash people in pakistan but now only 6000-7000 kalash. 3) early Cristian killed Nature worshiper & fire worshiper) and named them pagan (polytheistic) 4) alexander Never came in Bharat for fighting against porus he burned many pakistani village ( Bharat) he want to conquere India but his Army refused to attack on nand empire because alexender defeated porus but he struggled too much he got impressed from porus and become his friend but Nand empire so they returned to their past territory without fighting Nand empire,but their is story that alexender's minister went to chitral and learned kalash culture but Kalash have different ancestors. 5) now Hindu word it is not originally from Indian literature because in Indian literature sanatana Dharma Bharat ved These things are mentioned. Hindu name given by Persian to people of East sindhu half pakistan and Northern India. there have two types of Hindava mentioned in Avesta one who slaughter cows, promote violence falsehood and second who prefers cow as sacred and protect them follow truth and wisdom and rigveda says the same thing. Avestan: Vendidad 4.49 "gavō khshāthrō ārmaitish khshāthrē ahurā mazdā" Who hurts the cow, hurts Ahura Mazda Rigveda 8.101.15 "मा गामानागामदिति मा वधिष्ट मा पार्षदत् | मा निष्क्रीतिं पार्षदत् मा वधिष्ट मा गाम् ||" "May the cow not be slaughtered, may it not be killed, may it not be harmed. May its slaughter not be approved, may it not be killed, may the cow be protected. ( There have hundreds of verse like this in Rigveda avesta both) 6) Sanatan Dharma and Bharat is original name it is mentioned in all hindu jain buddh litrature , Sanatan dharma Means eternal duty or eternal Order, it's a dharmic concept not Abrahamic concept. In japan India is called TENJIKU ( land of heaven) in Tibetan culture bharat is Called Phagsul & rgyagar & Sangyekyiyul ( land of Arya 8 sages atri bharadwaj kashyap etc..& land of dark sprituality & land of budhha) 7) sanatana Dharma ( Hindu jain buddh... ) worship nature, worship duality nothing is god everything is god, worship murti ( Sagun god with shape) , worship parabramh ( nirgun god without shape) concept of superiority oneness , diverse idiology means sanatan dharma. One devote of Shiva mainly in south india worship him with music dance art devotion and another devote of Shiva worship him as form of nature mainly in Kashmir Uttarakhand Himachal Pradesh laddakh and uper North area of India-Pakistan ( bharat)Pashupatinath seel founded in harrapan civilization god of animals god of gods. Ancient Dharma civilizations culture of Bharat. Vishnu Shakti Also. 8) During colonisation a britisher Edward Burnet Tylor gave animism word to animal worshiper ( Nature is supreme) in 1871 , this word is Also used by Georg Ernst Stahl between 1710 to 1730 something for spirit , before 17-18century there was no word like animism..... 9) it doesn't matters that who is old only thing matters that are they connected or not, they all Kalash,Yazidi ( pre Indo-Iranian people) , Hindu Jain Buddh, Zoroastrianism, pagan, tengist are part of same culture.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
Fascinating, this must have been the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s novella “The Man Who Would Be King” which became a 1975 film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
This was very good in every respect and won my subscription. Your use of quotes from the people involved is the kind of touch a lot of these sorts of channels are lacking. And it's a topic I hadn't known about even being a history buff. Especially considering you're just getting started in this game, you should be proud of yourself.
Afghanistan was Hindu kingdom but now Hinduism has been eliminated from there. Nobody talks about genocide and elimination of Hindus from Islamic nations.
@@Dunno-bz9ngMr. before Buddhism could emerge there, there was Gandhara is was a Mahajanpada or amongst 12 great kingdom of Ancient India, imp characters like Gandhari and Shakuni in Mahabharata were from Gandhara!
@@PiyushMani-dr1hy your point is valid as long as we are talking about religion existing. But the comment above is implying that it was a widely practiced religion by the people of a more centralised type of Kingdom and that's not the case.
@@Dunno-bz9ng yes it might not be a widely practised religion post emergence of Buddhism, but before that Hinduism existed in its full form in Afghanistan, even a lot of Shastric Literature ( Scriptures of Hinduism) have been found from that place, after Kanishka's rule patronage to Buddhism was given, but Brahmins have had their share of Ashramas, Gurukulas and institutions established, Hindu Shahi rulers till 9th century were able upkeep Hinduism there!
@@groundzero5708 first of you dont know about that and secondly neither do many hindu sects- lingayats, sarnaists etc. Most hindus probably wouldn't have even read one word of the vedas.
At 19:14, McNair notes the supreme being of these Kafiristan people is 'Indra' , the ancient Hindu/Vedic god still worshipped in India (and Nepal and Pakistan) today . So they were practicing some kind of ancient Hinduism...
Indra was a river God of the Waigal valley Nuristanis,also Indra is from the Pre vedic,so it's not Hindu, Nuristani religion descended from the pre Vedic religion,that doesn't make it Hindu. Nuristanis had different supreme gods depending on the Valley,for instance the Bashgal Valley Nuristanis' supreme God was Gish,the God of War and Raids,while Ramgal and Presul valley Nuristanis worshipped Imro,the God of the sky.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani Hinduism had different phases and pre Vedic was one, it’s also a combination of natives, these philosophies are similar to those in Himachal…etc.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
Oh @Dev_Gurjar_Singh, let me enlighten you with some *accurate* history lessons. The Kalash tribe, contrary to your understanding, was actually defeated by the Raees people who came from China. It was our esteemed Mehtars (kings) who nobly preserved their community from various outside threats. Even today, the Kalash face attacks from Afghans at the frontiers, but the local Muslim community, who have always cherished them, continue to offer protection and support. And let's clear up another misconception: the Muslims of Chitral are not outsiders. We are the original inhabitants of the region who converted to Islam. Our history is long and rich, evolving from fire worship to the establishment of the Kalash civilization. Then came the Raees kings from China who made our people their slaves. Finally, the noble Muslim Monarchs, or Mehtars, entered the scene and heroically defeated the Raees kings. So, next time, try to get your facts straight before making such claims 😊😊
@@aryanhassan4659 Yup, and They are also the Long Lost Tribe of Judahs Like another 10,000+Other Tribes and they Descended From Adam 4,500 Years Ago and They Started Worshiping Prophets as Pagan Gods Shang Di Shnagdi-Tianzhu or Tianzhy is Shamadi of Abharamics and the True God of Abharam even Kukis Nagas etc are Jews-Christian before they Converted to Paganism Primitive worship and Then Descended From Heaven Through Came the Messiah the Faceless Prophets and these People were Borned now Through Arabs Abharamics Claims are wild and their angels satan Biblical Judgement day is more wilder but not even that wild the Things they have done and are still doing to others and They Loves to combat between each Other G-@-z is the best example For the Holy Lands Imao 3000-3500 years for the Holy Lands Abharam did not even existed at that time even
This was the original religion of Afghanistan , & the majority buckled under the Muslim attacks & converted, but what you call pagan religion, these people retained there religion
@@user-es8de7vg2w well Hinduism was the original then came the Buddhism came Emperor Ashok declared as the national religion & Afghanistan was part of India then though they all started praying to Buddha there culture remained the same , same happened in India & they reverted back to Hinduism soon
@@user-es8de7vg2w also due to high rates of cousin marriage in pakistan they have learning disability and speech problem so to imitate the average pakistani who is religious fanatic and blind believer who cannot understand arabic you can say popat momad popat momad (double meaning is that popat means parrot in urdu)
Thanks for posting. I recently finished Eric Newby's 1958 book, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, about his and companion Hugh Carless' journey to climb Mir Samir. Didn't get to the top, but wrote a fascinating and humorous book about their adventures through the region. Please consider writing about women travelers as well. Somewhere I've an old book written by two women who traveled through western China in the 1800's or the turn of the century. If I can find it I'll post it later. Again, thank you.
Came for the story, stayed for the religious flame war in the comment section lol. Damn fine video brother, we shall watch your career with great interest.
@@dawatanafghanistandai7195 very true Islam ruined many countries like Iran & Afghanistan, which were converted by force & violence. But India always kind to refuges let lots of people from Iran & Afghanistan settle in India & keep there original religion like the Parsis from Iran & kept it’s religion Hinduism, which is the oldest religion in the world
My first tour in Afghanistan (2004) I served alongside an ASF (Afghan Security Forces; pre-Karzai) whose village had only finally converted to Islam from Paganism during his Father's early Childhood. And yes that is exactly the region of RC East where we were operating. I tried to get some more information about it, and he said "it is said they worshipped Demons/Devils(the translation was a bit muddied the Terp was a bit confused himself about the meaning of the word used), and Fire. The description of the people doesn't quite hit the mark; I found the Nuristani to be remarkably striking in their features. They are, to use an archaic turn of phrase, a Handsome Race of People; and they are Daring to a Fault in Combat. One of our ASF was shot through both feet, and his legs were riddled with shrapnel; six weeks later he was back out on Patrol with us. These guys would almost beg to be allowed to go join a fight even if it was Green on Green, and they could tell who was fighting whom by the area we could hear shooting going on. "Don't worry, Boss; it's just fight over grazing for goats", or "Fighters, can we go?".
@@notadoctora7956 we do have videos from non muslim Nuristanis that escaped the initial conversion during the late 19th century. Check out Georg Morgenstein's videos from the 1920s.
I am a 20th century McNair living in the USA 🇺🇸. I am the first-born of an immigrant mother from Persia/Iran who is(92 1/2) a daughter of a Bakhtiari tribal chieftain’s son.
This reminds me of a story that I saw on a video that I can no longer find on RUclips. I think it was from the British show chronicle but it might have been from a different one but it was about the first non-arab to ever see Petra. The guy had to take like 2 years to learn the right language and grow his beard and everything and then find a guide to take him through this area where he would have been killed instantly if they thought he was an infidel. It was an amazing journey and I wish I could find the episode but it's somehow gone. I think they called it rose red City but there's so many references to Petra that are called that that the search doesn't help. RUclips does this thing where if you don't watch a video in a certain amount of time they take it out of your categories and so it's gone from that so I cannot find it anymore. It was an epic story though and the guy was nearly discovered a few times but he was a master of the language and survived to relate the story to a British archaeological and geographical group. One of those Victorian British explorers clubs
@@GreatManTheoryYT I believe it was. The last name rings a bell anyhow. It was a great episode with that kind of semi posh British narration. It was on a list I had that I called sleeping histories which were stories that I tended to fall asleep easily to. I'm not saying that they were boring or anything like that, they were all really good stories but also relaxing. It was kind of a strange thing because he approached somebody important from a geographical society with this idea of becoming the first non-muslim to see these areas and the things he had to do to even prepare for this mission were above and beyond. I think he had an unfortunate end and died of illness very young. This is all going off of the memory of a video I haven't seen in probably at least three or four years.
Thank you, this video filled in a question I had been wondering about since learning of the Kaffirs conversion and conquest as a result of the border delineation between Aghanistan and The raj.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
@@Dev_Gurjar_Singh No Pre Islamic Kafiristani/Nuristani called their religion "Sanatan Dharma" lol. They even had different Gods and legends depending on the valley and ethnicity.
@@ca0984 A very closely related one actually. Also,many aspects of the Kalasha religion were borrowed from the Pre-Islamic Nuristani people of Bashgal valley,such as the wood carvings.
Moment i heard kailash i am sure they followed indian religion either hinduism, jainsim ,sikh or bhudhist kailash is a place in indic religion like Jerusalem is for jews,christian and muslims it is place were respective religons legends meditate to attain supernatural strength
U should come out of this inferiority complex. Nuristanis I talked never claim themselves related to Hindusim. Even they say that Hindusim was not there when their religion was there. Each valley had their own gods which donot are Hindu gods or vedic gods even. So donot be like China or others
@@brassbaloch309 Yup Buddhist Kings Ashoka Bhindushara Kanishka etcs Kings and warriors Slained/ Sl@-Yed Poor Jains Hindus ajiviks and the Role model of BHimtas
I should say "Kafiristan" is misspelled and mispronounced. the correct word is "Kafaristan". the word Kafar means infidel or unbeliever. "Kaf" as pronounced in "Car". those people in that area were actually Pagans (they believed in some indian religion) as in video says correctly, but Muslims called them Kafar (unbeliever)
Only the Hindus are remained of ancient cultures, religions and traditions, everyone else is dead or converted.😢 Except for Zoroastrians but most of them are in India now too and which are also declining. Only Hindus ownered their ancesters sacrifice by keeping it alive and thriving. Our ancestors hymns are still echoing even after 4000 years.🙏
@@OkarinHououinKyouma not really, the Historical defining border between South Asia and Central Asia was the Hindu Kush Mountains; with anything South of it being South Asian and anything North of it being Central Asian; while the Central Hindu Kush regions were usually more Central Asian influenced by South Asia
I belong to nooristan, and know all our history. But these Hindus would start bullshit and say that all afghan were Hindus. Some in the comments says that nooristani are kalash but we are not. We have different languages, even every valley in nooristan have their own language. Our ancestors were pagan not Hindus and now we are so happy that our ancestors accepted Islam.
Ahh you happy your ancestors entire culture and traditions have been wiped off the slate and your people culturally subjugated to adopt the ways of the Arab tribes of the middle east? Im happy me and my people have been Arabised........
Ikr! I have a question if you don’t mind me asking 😅 In the video they mentioned the blue eyes and blonde hair, I have seen some people in Nuristan have indeed blonde hair and blue/green eyes but I think it’s because of the Alexander The Great, when he came to Afghanistan with his soldiers and married there etc etc that’s why cause they were white now people in Nuristan(not all people) looks white. Is that true? (It’s ok 👍🏻 if you don’t know 😊). BTW I’m from Laghman your neighbor😊
Keep crying. Hindus (aka the indigenous religious people of the area from Afghanistan to Assam and from Kashmir to Sri Lanka) will keep spreading the light of our indigeous truth to everyone. Pagan is not even an indigenous Afghani word, it is a Yahoodi word which comes from Christianity. You have no idea about your own language, your own terms and your own identity, and you are showing nothing but a fake pride to desperately hide your pain of being completely enslaved and humiliated for thousands of years by foreigners from the Middle East. Now you hate your own brothers and sisters from India just because THEY survived while you guys got DEFEATED. Okay, keep crying. But we Hindus will not stop spreading the truth. Kalashas ARE Hindus, the word Kalash itself is a Hindu term. We will carry the light of Vedas, Puranas, Sanskrit, Hinduism and Indianism across South Asia once again and kick out this Arabian-influenced racism and disjoint unity among the people of this land.
@@LeenaQurishi most of us are blonde and have blue eyes, cause of the climate there in nooristan, not because of Alexander the great. U can study the 12 class history book, which says that: mughul and Greek people didn't even come to nooristan cause of it's special geographical location، let alone to conquer nooristan. If u have read the 12 class history book properly, they used the wordصعب العبور for nooristan, which means the way that is deep, so Alexander the great didn't even come there then how did they have childern with our women? and u r laghmani, it's so sweet to have Langham chal here 😄😄
blue eyes and blonde hair r not Aryan features. The Aryans who migrated to India from Sintashta-Andronovo had black hair and brown eyes mostly. The most Aryan community of South Asia(Rors of Haryana) hv black hair and dark eyes, meanwhile kalash or Nuristani hv light features, it simply due to natural selection or genetic mutation. Even High AASI-IVC groups like Chitpavans hv lighter eyes.
@@sriparnoghosh2424 That is what I'm talking about. Even my little brother has them and they are on the lighter shade. Not to forget many folks who had even lighter brown hair that I have seen
These times were the most terrible times in the history of the region. the English helped Brutal dictators like Abdul Rahman Khan to commit genecides and forcebly convert the Kafirs, take many of them as slaves etc. many of the problems in Afghasnitan goes back to these times.
@@hamidhamidi3134 That is not true no the British were not successful in converting, about 10 to 12 percent of population was converted by the Malach or the Muslims, the Muslims were called Malach by the Indians which means non believers & filthy , but the rate of production of children by Muslims is very high because of 4 wife’s , now the population of Muslims in India is almost 18 %
@@hamidhamidi3134 I can agree there, the British in their greed and chase of power screwed up the disposition not only in Afghanistan, but in most parts of Eurasia. By justice south Turkestan, as well as the rest of Turkestan, Hazarajat and Kafiristan should’ve gone off to the Russian Empire, which would’ve saved them from genocides and religious radicalisation.
There are plenty of pictures from Robertsons Kafir's of the Hindu Kush book that show shrines , effigies & the local female horned headdress . There is all so a detailed description of the Imra temple at Parun valley that was the holiest temple in all Kafiristan . There is all so the photos taken by the Norwegian ethnologist Morgenstierne who visited & photographed & studied both the kafir refugee villages in the Kalash valleys & the mixed Kalash and Kati Kafir valley of Urtsun .
The Urtsun valley Kailash were tributaries to the Nuristani Kafirs,but they eventually lost control of it after their invasion by the Mehatr of Chitral.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani Nuristani Kafirs ??? that would be Kafiristani's . And it was Nuristanis who attacked in the late 1930s & killed most of the valleys last Pagans thus making the Islamic take over complete in the valley .That at least is what the last Pagan a lady called Mranzi who was the daughter of the last Urtsun priest - Chief And who married into the Biriu valley Kalash after the conversion of her valley .
at 19:14 in the video, he notes that McNair wrote that their supreme being was 'Indra' which is an ancient Vedic god and still very common in Hindu Vedic tradition today. And it is very well known that Chitral was part of Ancient Gandhara, which is mentioned in Ramayana. Even on Wikipedia it states that the Kafiristan people followed an ancient Hinduism
@@thinkingcitizensince you seem to know about the topic I always wondered how are modern Hindus able to reconcile between knowing of ancient Hinduism and the dates Hinduism says of their gods? I also read online that ancient Hindus believed in Vedas only so in your belief do you think the Gita and other Hindu scripture work with Vedas?
Lol hindu are not pagans we are Vedic we follows vedic teachings we have vedic and oldest civilization we are the oldest vedic civilization in the world
Nothing hindu about it 😂😂😂 these civilisations have outlived Hinduism and Zrorastians☺️ Hinduism is not a religion but a mosaic of practices all combined from 1001 cultures and labeled as Hinduism
Hahaha 🤣 they're converted forcefully to live pisslam whereas many zoastrians and Hindu migrated to India and Indian subcontinent muslims are just converted muslims by Turks and Uzbek as Afghanistan and Pakistan were coward 😂😂
Hind is region which is East for east part of sindhu and they used to follow sanatana Dharma which is mentioned in Rigveda and other different different 1001 culture 😅 Bharat🇮🇳, even Zoroastrianism get their name from Zoroastar writer of avasta, and We believe in Dharma not in religion we don't have Abrahamic religion concept of Only god, we are follower of sanatana Dharma who lives in Hind sanatana Dharma means eternal duty or eternal Order 😂so don't apply your Abrahamic religion idiology on us. We worship nature we worship murti concept of duality everything is god nothing is god, then concept of one god parabramh
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
5:05... 'Kaffir' doesn't mean heretic, it means infidel... The Kaffiristanians finally got defeated and had Islam shoved down their throats by Abdur Rahman Khan, after he got modern firearms from the British...
In humane and hope they respect their roots and learn the truth of how were manipulated one by one, the entire mountain range is called HinduKush or where thrown from, hope ones in Chitral flee and the only way right now as no future.
As a child I remember reading a National Geographic article about the Kalash Kafirs. Suggestion was, they were Greek, and the Persian empire had moved any captured Greeks to the far end of the empire from Greece. Thus the European look and unislamic behavior patterns.
forcibly converted after the British trained and armed the Afghans with modern weapons , they then redrew the border so that a small stripe of Afghan territory separated British India from the Russian empire .Boys were kidnapped taken to Kabul and brainwashed into Islam , Kafir priests were all murdered and shrines and temples and ancestor effigies set alight .
@@user-mg2ip8cr8zI am a nooristani of Afghanistan and I am so happy that our ancestors converted from paganism to Islam. Our ancestors weren't Hindus, they were pagan and had special way of life, unlike hindus we haven't burned the dead bodies, nooristani or kafiristan has nothing to do with Hinduism. In ancient times, most afghan followed Zoroastrianism and some of them followed Buddhism but none of them were Hindus. According to u guys all the world is Hindu.
@@Harry-gy4fp so no surprise that those who are brought up believing in Islam would be happy to be Muslims , as for no connection to modern Hinduism there is no connection to modern Hinduism but plenty to ancient Vedic culture . The town of Wama is still has its ancient mountain garden called the Indrakun . Thats the Vedic gpd Indra that its named after and that's just one example .Zoroastrianism and Hindiuism and Kafiristani culture all come for the same source Vedic culture .
@@oneman80840nice joke 🤣 western countries rarely invaded instead turks and Arabs converted and Afghanistan is more in west side that's why it's all got converted 😂😂 that's why they're treated as toilet cleaner in Arab countries 😂😂 even Syria people don't like dirty converted muslims of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India but kind towards other Indians.
@@user-zn1rr8fd4n we are Muslims 😊 the truth does not belong to a tribe or cast (Islam is for all humanity)…If you want to learn about our attitude towards so called “Indo-aryan traditions” research the meaning of the “Hindu Kush” mountains.
Many psuedo historians here. Kafiristanis of Afghanistan converted to Islam in 1890s. Today the area is called Nooristan. But now Kalash region of Pakistan is called Kafiristan due to pagans living there
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIDEO!!! It's so sad to hear another beautiful anicent culture being wiped out by CRUEL islam. God knows how many precious knowledge was destroyed by islam.
Kafiristani pagan traditions outdate even Hinduism and Zoroastrian religion and so it is safe to say that they were the earliest aryan and Indian ancestors. So they were not Hindus and Vedic. They were the ancestors of Hindu and Vedic religion
@@zakialmahin7278 There is nothing called hindu religion. A collection of local traditions who lived east of river Indus and some of whom had adopted Vedic textbooks of Indo Europeans were called hindus by persians and those groups adopted that name because they did not have any common identity and needed one.
Correction: The name Afghanistan is a British creation and did not exist until the late 1800's. The original name is Aryana, Khorasan, which has a history of over 7000 years. the British named the land Afghanistan, land of the Aughan or Pashtun, to use the Aughans in the Southern regions for the conquest of the land of Aryana Khorasan. Today everyone in that land is misidentified as Aughan because of the British.
Modern Afghanistan is founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, who worked for Nader Shah of Iran, Nader Shah was responsible for sacking of Delhi 1737. The name Afghan exists since 7th century AD. An Indian mathematician refers to them as "Apagana". Aspa and Asba are Persian and Farsi respectively for horse.
Beautiful video. Goes on to show how foreign Arabian and Iranic people shamelessly dominated over South Asia and tried to remove our cultural and linguistic imprint to make us subservient to them using excuse of monotheism and Islam. Too bad this beautiful region got succumbed to the ugly discriminatory politics and war waged by Muslims. This makes me, as a Hindu Indian, even more strict and patriotic about my country and strongly connected to my own religion, language and culture. Forced monotheism, Abrahamic values and their languages have NO PLACE whatsoever in India. Even our 200M Muslims today used Sanskritized language when indulging in intellectual debates, we are not interested in Arabizing or Iranicizing ourselves. India is its own Ummah, and by Krishna's grace we survived for a reason.
Yesss God bless India, islam is nothing but a political idealogy that destroys cultures and ask’s ppl to surrender their nationality and all that for what 😂. Islam has only extended the arab desert culture; hell it’s even destroyed arabian paganism as well in the process. I honestly can’t stand it anymore
Hindu nationalists are not claiming Afghans. They are claiming the land and its culture. All you slaves of Mecca and Madinah are free to leave that land and go sulk beside that Meccan black box where thousands died this year. Being called Hindu in Afghanistan being an insult SHOWS HOW BADLY the Middle Eastern people defeated you, enslaved you and brainwashed you. Now you are just trying to hide your shame by bullying your own brothers and sisters from India because THEY protected their culture, language and religion while Afghans became the SLAVES of Saudi Arabians. Good luck, but we will not keep quiet anymore. Jaya Shri Ram. Jayatu Gandharadesham (Afghanistan is temporary, Gandhara desh is permanent)
@@itsoblivion8124 nobody wants to be Indian bro 😂 no need to insult us Hindui goo khor kuss madar highly recommend you look at the meaning of “Hindu Kush” mountains
@@itsoblivion8124 I have,nothing happened…nobody wants to be Indian bro 😂 (no need to insult us) Hindui goo khor kuss madar highly recommend you look at the meaning of “Hindu Kush” mountains
I’m enthralled by the Content but not the narrators voice. This might be a symptom of the new generation, but the narrators lack of inflection, invokes boredom with the subject. This is my observation, and hopefully invokes a change in the narrators ability to imagine the authors first-hand experience.
The subject is excellent but the narrator has neither knowledge of the area nor the languages. He even mispronounced Strachan, and that is a Scot's name, which should be known to a reasonably educated American. To listen to such mangling of the language can scarcely be relaxing or instructive. The videos have no footage of Nuristan. It is all taken from areas further East. A Kalash viewer may be able to speak to the footage of the people.
Speak for yourself. I find people who are too interested in themselves and the sounds of their own voices exhausting. No doubt including yourself based on your snide comment
The primary source for this video is McNair's 'A Visit to Kafiristan' which is included in the 'Memoir of William Watts McNair' available for free online: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10382
Area is called kafirstan for their disbelif in one almiety, are said to be descendents of aldxander thed great, and the associated religion. They are recognised as an ethnicity , people reavel from far places to visit them.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
@@mirwaiszazai9044Why do you need to recognise me? My country of origin is irrelevant to the discussion. If you cannot prove my argument wrong, then you lost. It’s that simple. The only reason you want to recognise me is because you want to send your terrorist friends to find me. You yourself are probably a terrorist.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
Some important info: The Kafiristani religion was an Indo-Iranian religion, just like Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Yazidism, etc. These all descend from a common religion, in which gods like Indra, Yama, Dyaus, Agni, etc (these are the sanskrit names, the names are different in different languages) were worshipped, in which religious poetry and fire was really important, etc. This is why there are so many similiarities between these religions.
All bs😂 I’ve been to Nuristan and seen their old religions. They aren’t Hindus infact they where pagans who worshiped there dead tribe leaders or their grandparents.
They had their own Gods and legends as well,such as Gish,Dizeni and the 7 Panu brothers,but many of them might be lost to history.
zoroaster are similar to Abrahamic religions not hinduism lol
I’m no expert, but While Zoroastrianism has elements similar to the Abraham’s ones, it has “deities” similar to Hindu ones. Zoroastrians have demons called devas, which include Indra, and are like Hindu Devas. There was also a religion before Zoroastrianism which was also related to Hinduism.
@@rollinghippo2940 Only in that they are monotheistic. Otherwise, they are much more similar to Hinduism, for ex, they revere fire and memorise very old hymns and use them in prayer.
A Kalash here from Chitral, Pakistan. This was an interesting video, and I hope we see more of this content on RUclips. I need to add some things here: Kafiristan was not always a part of Afghanistan. In fact, it was an autonomous region under the protection of the Chitral Kingdom, and often Kalash chiefs were made governors of Kafiristan by our Katoor kings. Kafiristan was occupied by the Afghans when Chitral came under the British influence, and the Afghans broke the peace treaty between Chitral and Afghanistan. The Katoor kings were our biggest patrons, and they were the ones who protected the Nuristanis from conversion by invaders; it was not only because they were isolated. When the Afghans attacked Nuristan, many Nuristanis moved to Chitral and continued their religion. The last one converted, if I remember correctly, in the 1980s.
Another thing: all of the images you used here are of us Kalash, not Nooristanis. Anyways, I enjoyed it and learned something new today. 👍🏻
Also, to my Indian brothers in the comment section, we Kalash are not Hindus. Our religion is much older than Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. 🙏🏻
Greetings from Chitral ֎ 🇵🇰
what do u even know about hinduism to say anything is older/newer? Also, Hinduism is a dharma not religion, they are different things. There's solid proof of hindu deities being worshipped as far back as indus valley civilisation and who knows how further back it goes. So I'd also suggest the same to u as well, don't try to put forth any claims about Hinduism either.
I have no interest claiming kalash religion as part of hinduism. A few internet videos don't represent us. Do what u want.
Yes, for obvious reasons there are no real pictures of Kafiristani pagans besides the Kalash.
Hinduism is a very diverse religion, or we could also say that it's the absence of organised religion. For example the gods and practices of different regions in India are very different from each other.
The primary god mentioned in video (imra) sounds very similar to god Indra, who is the king of all devtas (other gods).
I wish you well my brother.
Love from Gilgit bro, hope you're keeping your traditions safe. ❤ Can u give me some reference readings about Kalash history and culture. Some books or some research papers, thanks.
@alborzkalash
@@GaurangAsthana Proof? Trust me bro😂
Until the indus valley language is completely decoded nobody can say for sure what their religion was or even that they were religious at all.
The area of Kafiristan Watts visited was the Bashgal Valley, which was tributary to Chitral. The Eastern portion of Kafiristan was controlled by the Mehtar of Chitral and they gave him a yearly tribute and fought for him in times of war. The Katoor Dynasty of Chitral was always very friendly with the non-Muslim tribes of the region, both the Kalash and the Bashgal Kafirs.
Take a look here
1) Muslim killed and ra*ped Yazidi ( nature worshipers & fire worshiper) in Iraq 2014 genocide
2) Muslim forcefully converted kalash people in pakistan and married them, in 1951 there was 50000-60000 kalash people in pakistan but now only 6000-7000 kalash.
3) early Cristian killed Nature worshiper & fire worshiper) and named them pagan (polytheistic)
4) alexander came in Bharat for fighting against porus he burned many pakistani village ( Bharat) he want to conquere India but his Army refused to attack on nand empire because alexender defeated porus but he struggled too much he got impressed from porus and become his friend but Nand empire so they returned to their past territory without fighting Nand empire,but their is story that alexender's minister went to chitral and learned kalash culture but Kalash have different ancestors.
5) now Hindu word it is not originally from Indian literature because in Indian literature sanatana Dharma Bharat ved These things are mentioned. Hindu name given by Persian to people of East sindhu half pakistan and Northern India. there have two types of Hindava mentioned in Avesta one who slaughter cows, promote violence falsehood and second who prefers cow as sacred and protect them follow truth and wisdom and rigveda says the same thing. and second one who follows path of ahura mazda is called Aryans in Avesta
Avestan: Vendidad 4.49
"gavō khshāthrō ārmaitish khshāthrē ahurā mazdā"
Who hurts the cow, hurts Ahura Mazda
Rigveda 8.101.15
"मा गामानागामदिति मा वधिष्ट मा पार्षदत् |
मा निष्क्रीतिं पार्षदत् मा वधिष्ट मा गाम् ||"
"May the cow not be slaughtered, may it not be killed, may it not be harmed.
May its slaughter not be approved, may it not be killed, may the cow be protected.
( There have hundreds of verse like this in Rigveda avesta both)
6) Sanatan Dharma and Bharat is original name it is mentioned in all hindu jain buddh litrature , Sanatan dharma Means eternal duty or eternal Order, it's a dharmic concept not Abrahamic concept. In japan India is called TENJIKU ( land of heaven) in Tibetan culture bharat is Called Phagsul & rgyagar & Sangyekyiyul ( land of Arya 8 sages atri bharadwaj kashyap etc..& land of dark sprituality & land of budhha)
7) sanatana Dharma ( Hindu jain buddh... ) worship nature, worship duality nothing is god everything is god, worship murti ( Sagun god with shape) , worship parabramh ( nirgun god without shape) concept of superiority oneness , diverse idiology means sanatan dharma. One devote of Shiva mainly in south india worship him with music dance art devotion and another devote of Shiva worship him as form of nature mainly in Kashmir Uttarakhand Himachal Pradesh laddakh and uper North area of India-Pakistan ( bharat)Pashupatinath seel founded in harrapan civilization god of animals god of gods. Ancient Dharma civilizations culture of Bharat. Vishnu Shakti Also.
8) During colonisation a britisher Edward Burnet Tylor gave animism word to animal worshiper ( Nature is supreme) in 1871 , this word is Also used by Georg Ernst Stahl between 1710 to 1730 something for spirit , before 17-18century there was no word like animism.....
9) it doesn't matters that who is old only thing matters that are they connected or not, they all Kalash,Yazidi ( pre Indo-Iranian people) , Hindu Jain Buddh, Zoroastrianism, pagan, tengist are part of same culture.
To all and for converted who Is identifying as Nuristani
1) Muslim killed and ra*ped Yazidi ( nature worshipers & fire worshiper) in Iraq 2014 genocide
2) Muslim forcefully converted kalash people in pakistan and married them, in 1951 there was 50000-60000 kalash people in pakistan but now only 6000-7000 kalash.
3) early Cristian killed Nature worshiper & fire worshiper) and named them pagan (polytheistic)
4) alexander Never came in Bharat for fighting against porus he burned many pakistani village ( Bharat) he want to conquere India but his Army refused to attack on nand empire because alexender defeated porus but he struggled too much he got impressed from porus and become his friend but Nand empire so they returned to their past territory without fighting Nand empire,but their is story that alexender's minister went to chitral and learned kalash culture but Kalash have different ancestors.
5) now Hindu word it is not originally from Indian literature because in Indian literature sanatana Dharma Bharat ved These things are mentioned. Hindu name given by Persian to people of East sindhu half pakistan and Northern India. there have two types of Hindava mentioned in Avesta one who slaughter cows, promote violence falsehood and second who prefers cow as sacred and protect them follow truth and wisdom and rigveda says the same thing.
Avestan: Vendidad 4.49
"gavō khshāthrō ārmaitish khshāthrē ahurā mazdā"
Who hurts the cow, hurts Ahura Mazda
Rigveda 8.101.15
"मा गामानागामदिति मा वधिष्ट मा पार्षदत् |
मा निष्क्रीतिं पार्षदत् मा वधिष्ट मा गाम् ||"
"May the cow not be slaughtered, may it not be killed, may it not be harmed.
May its slaughter not be approved, may it not be killed, may the cow be protected.
( There have hundreds of verse like this in Rigveda avesta both)
6) Sanatan Dharma and Bharat is original name it is mentioned in all hindu jain buddh litrature , Sanatan dharma Means eternal duty or eternal Order, it's a dharmic concept not Abrahamic concept. In japan India is called TENJIKU ( land of heaven) in Tibetan culture bharat is Called Phagsul & rgyagar & Sangyekyiyul ( land of Arya 8 sages atri bharadwaj kashyap etc..& land of dark sprituality & land of budhha)
7) sanatana Dharma ( Hindu jain buddh... ) worship nature, worship duality nothing is god everything is god, worship murti ( Sagun god with shape) , worship parabramh ( nirgun god without shape) concept of superiority oneness , diverse idiology means sanatan dharma. One devote of Shiva mainly in south india worship him with music dance art devotion and another devote of Shiva worship him as form of nature mainly in Kashmir Uttarakhand Himachal Pradesh laddakh and uper North area of India-Pakistan ( bharat)Pashupatinath seel founded in harrapan civilization god of animals god of gods. Ancient Dharma civilizations culture of Bharat. Vishnu Shakti Also.
8) During colonisation a britisher Edward Burnet Tylor gave animism word to animal worshiper ( Nature is supreme) in 1871 , this word is Also used by Georg Ernst Stahl between 1710 to 1730 something for spirit , before 17-18century there was no word like animism.....
9) it doesn't matters that who is old only thing matters that are they connected or not, they all Kalash,Yazidi ( pre Indo-Iranian people) , Hindu Jain Buddh, Zoroastrianism, pagan, tengist are part of same culture.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
@@Dev_Gurjar_Singh world class yapper
@@zahranmohammad3880 When there is no answer, you say yapper.
@@Dev_Gurjar_Singh its not that deep bro
This is very good and well made, I hope the algorithm picks this up
Fascinating, this must have been the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s novella “The Man Who Would Be King” which became a 1975 film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
I opened the video with that in mind
yeah same here
A wonderful film.
> we just want to exist in peace
> abrahamists : so you chose violence
Haha Throughout the Human history
“No man was allowed to marry until he took the life of a Muslim” sounds peaceful… not 😂
@@NoMan-pp1jq Yes Peacefulls destorying the world Islamic state etc and False Victim Card of A-Religions
the curse of Abraham
@@NoMan-pp1jqu can't blame them
This was very good in every respect and won my subscription. Your use of quotes from the people involved is the kind of touch a lot of these sorts of channels are lacking. And it's a topic I hadn't known about even being a history buff.
Especially considering you're just getting started in this game, you should be proud of yourself.
well not really considering he ignored the famous book Kafirs of the Hindu Kush which contained the pictures of Kafiristan he claimed did not exist
Afghanistan was Hindu kingdom but now Hinduism has been eliminated from there. Nobody talks about genocide and elimination of Hindus from Islamic nations.
Not really it was Buddhist and Zoroastrian at some point but Hinduism wasn't as big as you are trying to imply.
Mostly Buddhist
@@Dunno-bz9ngMr. before Buddhism could emerge there, there was Gandhara is was a Mahajanpada or amongst 12 great kingdom of Ancient India, imp characters like Gandhari and Shakuni in Mahabharata were from Gandhara!
@@PiyushMani-dr1hy your point is valid as long as we are talking about religion existing. But the comment above is implying that it was a widely practiced religion by the people of a more centralised type of Kingdom and that's not the case.
@@Dunno-bz9ng yes it might not be a widely practised religion post emergence of Buddhism, but before that Hinduism existed in its full form in Afghanistan, even a lot of Shastric Literature ( Scriptures of Hinduism) have been found from that place, after Kanishka's rule patronage to Buddhism was given, but Brahmins have had their share of Ashramas, Gurukulas and institutions established, Hindu Shahi rulers till 9th century were able upkeep Hinduism there!
They were hindus, now only 2 of them remain in afghanistan one of whom is over 90 years of age and the other has his family settled in india
They dont follow vedas
@@groundzero5708 they do but other hindu sects out right reject the vedas as fake and most hindus don't even read them
@@groundzero5708 first of you dont know about that and secondly neither do many hindu sects- lingayats, sarnaists etc. Most hindus probably wouldn't have even read one word of the vedas.
They are not Hindus.
@@emperorpalpatine9841 learn what is hinduism first
At 19:14, McNair notes the supreme being of these Kafiristan people is 'Indra' , the ancient Hindu/Vedic god still worshipped in India (and Nepal and Pakistan) today . So they were practicing some kind of ancient Hinduism...
Indra was a river God of the Waigal valley Nuristanis,also Indra is from the Pre vedic,so it's not Hindu, Nuristani religion descended from the pre Vedic religion,that doesn't make it Hindu.
Nuristanis had different supreme gods depending on the Valley,for instance the Bashgal Valley Nuristanis' supreme God was Gish,the God of War and Raids,while Ramgal and Presul valley Nuristanis worshipped Imro,the God of the sky.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani Hinduism had different phases and pre Vedic was one, it’s also a combination of natives, these philosophies are similar to those in Himachal…etc.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani why to bluff and lie? Indra is vedic god . They were Hindus.. why to cry and lie like this???
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani in the eyes of pashtuns you are rajesh pajit too. They distinguish themselves from you as Indic people.
@@thinkingcitizen go to Punjab. Names will be like mahinder, Gurinder, sukhinder, Inder , etc
Incredible story, I hope you do more of these !
Very Kipling-esqe
As a native Chitrali I really enjoyed this video ❤❤❤
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
Oh @Dev_Gurjar_Singh, let me enlighten you with some *accurate* history lessons. The Kalash tribe, contrary to your understanding, was actually defeated by the Raees people who came from China. It was our esteemed Mehtars (kings) who nobly preserved their community from various outside threats. Even today, the Kalash face attacks from Afghans at the frontiers, but the local Muslim community, who have always cherished them, continue to offer protection and support.
And let's clear up another misconception: the Muslims of Chitral are not outsiders. We are the original inhabitants of the region who converted to Islam. Our history is long and rich, evolving from fire worship to the establishment of the Kalash civilization. Then came the Raees kings from China who made our people their slaves. Finally, the noble Muslim Monarchs, or Mehtars, entered the scene and heroically defeated the Raees kings. So, next time, try to get your facts straight before making such claims 😊😊
@@Mulkhonmerxurisouth asian history is often hijacked by hindoesss😂
@@aryanhassan4659 Yup, and They are also the Long Lost Tribe of Judahs Like another 10,000+Other Tribes and they Descended From Adam 4,500 Years Ago and They Started Worshiping Prophets as Pagan Gods Shang Di Shnagdi-Tianzhu or Tianzhy is Shamadi of Abharamics and the True God of Abharam even Kukis Nagas etc are Jews-Christian before they Converted to Paganism Primitive worship and Then Descended From Heaven Through Came the Messiah the Faceless Prophets and these People were Borned now Through Arabs Abharamics Claims are wild and their angels satan Biblical Judgement day is more wilder but not even that wild the Things they have done and are still doing to others and They Loves to combat between each Other G-@-z is the best example For the Holy Lands Imao 3000-3500 years for the Holy Lands Abharam did not even existed at that time even
@@aryanhassan4659south Asian history is Hindu , its truth
What an amazing video ! Subscribed and can’t wait for more
This journey would make a great movie imo. Great video 👍
This was the original religion of Afghanistan , & the majority buckled under the Muslim attacks & converted, but what you call pagan religion, these people retained there religion
It wasn't? Before islam was dominant, zoroastrianism and buddhism were.
@@user-es8de7vg2w well Hinduism was the original then came the Buddhism came Emperor Ashok declared as the national religion & Afghanistan was part of India then though they all started praying to Buddha there culture remained the same , same happened in India & they reverted back to Hinduism soon
@@user-es8de7vg2w momad momad popat momad hahaha
@@SpiritualSeeker-oq5pt ? What does that even mean
@@user-es8de7vg2w also due to high rates of cousin marriage in pakistan they have learning disability and speech problem so to imitate the average pakistani who is religious fanatic and blind believer who cannot understand arabic you can say popat momad popat momad (double meaning is that popat means parrot in urdu)
I was hooked with this video. Keep up the great content my friend.
Thanks for posting. I recently finished Eric Newby's 1958 book, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, about his and companion Hugh Carless' journey to climb Mir Samir. Didn't get to the top, but wrote a fascinating and humorous book about their adventures through the region. Please consider writing about women travelers as well. Somewhere I've an old book written by two women who traveled through western China in the 1800's or the turn of the century. If I can find it I'll post it later. Again, thank you.
Thanks, always looking for new ideas so will definitely consider them if you can remember their names
It's called Nuristan now since they became Muslim
They didn't become Muslim. They were forced to convert to Islam.
@@spartacus551Well, they became Muslim through forced conversion.
@@StockyDudethey speak Nuristani which is a very unique language between Eastern, Western Iranian languages and the Indic languages
Islam destroyed them
@@spartacus551that’s how the majority of Islam spread. Middle East is Muslim just like they are now Muslim
Came for the story, stayed for the religious flame war in the comment section lol.
Damn fine video brother, we shall watch your career with great interest.
Those wooden statues of men and woman at 19 min looks alot like the wooden idles that were found in a german bog, thats pretty cool
What is a German bog? I think they look more like traditional Hungarian wood carvings.
They are ancestral statues of Nuristani people,not idols of Gods.
RESEARCH THE INDOEUROPEANS- we are all aryans, same culture, literally
this was a very good put together video . Keep up the good work bro.
My country was ruined by Islam ❤️🩹
You can still save it ❤
Many such cases
Hmmm nah can't blame the infighting on religion the war would have happened under any other religion too. It's just unfortunate.
Correction --- *"Ruled by Islam."*
And say Alhamdulillah.!!!!!
@@dawatanafghanistandai7195 very true Islam ruined many countries like Iran & Afghanistan, which were converted by force & violence. But India always kind to refuges let lots of people from Iran & Afghanistan settle in India & keep there original religion like the Parsis from Iran & kept it’s religion Hinduism, which is the oldest religion in the world
My first tour in Afghanistan (2004) I served alongside an ASF (Afghan Security Forces; pre-Karzai) whose village had only finally converted to Islam from Paganism during his Father's early Childhood. And yes that is exactly the region of RC East where we were operating. I tried to get some more information about it, and he said "it is said they worshipped Demons/Devils(the translation was a bit muddied the Terp was a bit confused himself about the meaning of the word used), and Fire.
The description of the people doesn't quite hit the mark; I found the Nuristani to be remarkably striking in their features. They are, to use an archaic turn of phrase, a Handsome Race of People; and they are Daring to a Fault in Combat. One of our ASF was shot through both feet, and his legs were riddled with shrapnel; six weeks later he was back out on Patrol with us. These guys would almost beg to be allowed to go join a fight even if it was Green on Green, and they could tell who was fighting whom by the area we could hear shooting going on. "Don't worry, Boss; it's just fight over grazing for goats", or "Fighters, can we go?".
You're a man of knowledge. It has been a pleasure listening.
Well made! An enjoyable watch!
Nicely put together. It's a shame they weren't videos of the actual place. But I can imagine how expensive that would be!
@@notadoctora7956 we do have videos from non muslim Nuristanis that escaped the initial conversion during the late 19th century.
Check out Georg Morgenstein's videos from the 1920s.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani I did but can't bring up anything here. Did you mean here?
Wonderful that you have made this video
Terrific documentary on William Watts McNair: Virtue is its own Reward
I am a 20th century McNair living in the USA 🇺🇸. I am the first-born of an immigrant mother from Persia/Iran who is(92 1/2) a daughter of a Bakhtiari tribal chieftain’s son.
This reminds me of a story that I saw on a video that I can no longer find on RUclips. I think it was from the British show chronicle but it might have been from a different one but it was about the first non-arab to ever see Petra. The guy had to take like 2 years to learn the right language and grow his beard and everything and then find a guide to take him through this area where he would have been killed instantly if they thought he was an infidel. It was an amazing journey and I wish I could find the episode but it's somehow gone. I think they called it rose red City but there's so many references to Petra that are called that that the search doesn't help. RUclips does this thing where if you don't watch a video in a certain amount of time they take it out of your categories and so it's gone from that so I cannot find it anymore. It was an epic story though and the guy was nearly discovered a few times but he was a master of the language and survived to relate the story to a British archaeological and geographical group. One of those Victorian British explorers clubs
Can’t say I’ve seen the video you’re referring to but sounds like it was about Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
@@GreatManTheoryYT I believe it was. The last name rings a bell anyhow. It was a great episode with that kind of semi posh British narration. It was on a list I had that I called sleeping histories which were stories that I tended to fall asleep easily to. I'm not saying that they were boring or anything like that, they were all really good stories but also relaxing. It was kind of a strange thing because he approached somebody important from a geographical society with this idea of becoming the first non-muslim to see these areas and the things he had to do to even prepare for this mission were above and beyond. I think he had an unfortunate end and died of illness very young. This is all going off of the memory of a video I haven't seen in probably at least three or four years.
Thank you, this video filled in a question I had been wondering about since learning of the Kaffirs conversion and conquest as a result of the border delineation between Aghanistan and The raj.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
@@ozziebugga9725 I'm Nuristani,I can answer any questions you have.
@@Dev_Gurjar_Singh No Pre Islamic Kafiristani/Nuristani called their religion "Sanatan Dharma" lol.
They even had different Gods and legends depending on the valley and ethnicity.
@@Dev_Gurjar_Singhcry about it pagan
Zoroastrianism started from ancient Balkh empire, which is located in northern part of Afghanistan
why show ladakh and the Northern areas of pakistan in the backdrop???? Its so misleading.
Really bro I think we should start showing the palaces we really have instead of propaganda. The age of conquest is over.
correct me if im wrong but is the religon of nuristan (kafiristan) still followed by the kalash in pakistan? or a very closely related version
@@ca0984 A very closely related one actually.
Also,many aspects of the Kalasha religion were borrowed from the Pre-Islamic Nuristani people of Bashgal valley,such as the wood carvings.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani were the kalasha just migrants from neighboring regions? When did they split from each other?
Even in nuristan still but not wide spread
This was superb!
Moment i heard kailash i am sure they followed indian religion either hinduism, jainsim ,sikh or bhudhist kailash is a place in indic religion like Jerusalem is for jews,christian and muslims it is place were respective religons legends meditate to attain supernatural strength
U should come out of this inferiority complex. Nuristanis I talked never claim themselves related to Hindusim. Even they say that Hindusim was not there when their religion was there. Each valley had their own gods which donot are Hindu gods or vedic gods even. So donot be like China or others
Thats actually really interesting! Is there by chance a relation between the Kafirs and the Hephthalites?
A Man Would Be King makes me come here.
Me too
it's clear where they got the inspiration from
They = Rudyard Kipling.
@@user-kt8yp5ho2y man who would be king does not give a true picture,the British tried to show there superiority,
Peacefool imperialism 😊
Saar Ashoka wazzz chad nd peaceful saar
@@brassbaloch309peacefool still bombing kids saar. Peacefool still bowing to Arab rppist saar.
@@brassbaloch309 Yup Buddhist Kings Ashoka Bhindushara Kanishka etcs Kings and warriors Slained/ Sl@-Yed Poor Jains Hindus ajiviks and the Role model of BHimtas
@@DRONAPRATAPSINGHTAWARTAWARso what? It doesn’t justify what the Muslim invaders did.
@@Concerned_one lol invaders? It was Afghans themselves who converted other Afghans… educate yourself
Btw a similair ethnic group the Kalash of pakistan still practice a similair animist religion today
its NOT ANIMIST!!!!
aryans never worshipped animal spirits, rather the high gods
@@scrabbymcscrotus7481 hmm good point
I should say "Kafiristan" is misspelled and mispronounced.
the correct word is "Kafaristan". the word Kafar means infidel or unbeliever. "Kaf" as pronounced in "Car". those people in that area were actually Pagans (they believed in some indian religion) as in video says correctly, but Muslims called them Kafar (unbeliever)
They didn't believe in a Hindu religion,their beliefs descend from the pre Vedic religion,but that doesn't make it Hindu at all.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani God Indra is A hindu god google it. They were Ancient Hindus.
Only the Hindus are remained of ancient cultures, religions and traditions, everyone else is dead or converted.😢 Except for Zoroastrians but most of them are in India now too and which are also declining.
Only Hindus ownered their ancesters sacrifice by keeping it alive and thriving. Our ancestors hymns are still echoing even after 4000 years.🙏
@@rahulj.005 hope you guys convert more salam from Afghanistan 😘 Hindu goo khor
until india cleaned the ganges River, no one will have a good view of Hinduism
@@rollinghippo2940 Ganges is not the only river in India BKL MC.
Ancient culture?.
You mean like the one show up in India Instagram reels?.
@@ziyadpepe6291 No, that's what young generation trying to copy Western culture. Instagram is not an Indian culture.
Afghanistan was originally Kandhar. So yeah there were hindus in Afghanistan in the past.
Basically Hindus with Greek and Persian influenced culture amalgamation
I❤central asian history
The most interesting yet least studied discussed
East meets west
Musical chairs intrigue
central asian and central african need more vids
It is South Asian history. Everything north to Afghanistan is Central Asia
Since this is Afghanistan technically this is South Asia, the pagans/kafirs were following an ancient Hinduism
@@OkarinHououinKyouma I knew someone would say that
At one time north Afghanistan was bmac
@@OkarinHououinKyouma not really, the Historical defining border between South Asia and Central Asia was the Hindu Kush Mountains; with anything South of it being South Asian and anything North of it being Central Asian; while the Central Hindu Kush regions were usually more Central Asian influenced by South Asia
This is a great channel
Great vid, thanks for enriching our livez
I belong to nooristan, and know all our history. But these Hindus would start bullshit and say that all afghan were Hindus. Some in the comments says that nooristani are kalash but we are not. We have different languages, even every valley in nooristan have their own language. Our ancestors were pagan not Hindus and now we are so happy that our ancestors accepted Islam.
Ahh you happy your ancestors entire culture and traditions have been wiped off the slate and your people culturally subjugated to adopt the ways of the Arab tribes of the middle east?
Im happy me and my people have been Arabised........
Ikr!
I have a question if you don’t mind me asking 😅
In the video they mentioned the blue eyes and blonde hair, I have seen some people in Nuristan have indeed blonde hair and blue/green eyes but I think it’s because of the Alexander The Great, when he came to Afghanistan with his soldiers and married there etc etc that’s why cause they were white now people in Nuristan(not all people) looks white. Is that true? (It’s ok 👍🏻 if you don’t know 😊).
BTW I’m from Laghman your neighbor😊
Keep crying. Hindus (aka the indigenous religious people of the area from Afghanistan to Assam and from Kashmir to Sri Lanka) will keep spreading the light of our indigeous truth to everyone. Pagan is not even an indigenous Afghani word, it is a Yahoodi word which comes from Christianity. You have no idea about your own language, your own terms and your own identity, and you are showing nothing but a fake pride to desperately hide your pain of being completely enslaved and humiliated for thousands of years by foreigners from the Middle East. Now you hate your own brothers and sisters from India just because THEY survived while you guys got DEFEATED.
Okay, keep crying. But we Hindus will not stop spreading the truth. Kalashas ARE Hindus, the word Kalash itself is a Hindu term. We will carry the light of Vedas, Puranas, Sanskrit, Hinduism and Indianism across South Asia once again and kick out this Arabian-influenced racism and disjoint unity among the people of this land.
@@Harry-gy4fp salam azizam, I agree I’m from Panjshir it’s annoying to see these Hindus they just look desperate.
@@LeenaQurishi most of us are blonde and have blue eyes, cause of the climate there in nooristan, not because of Alexander the great. U can study the 12 class history book, which says that: mughul and Greek people didn't even come to nooristan cause of it's special geographical location، let alone to conquer nooristan. If u have read the 12 class history book properly, they used the wordصعب العبور for nooristan, which means the way that is deep, so Alexander the great didn't even come there then how did they have childern with our women? and u r laghmani, it's so sweet to have Langham chal here 😄😄
blue eyes and blonde hair r not Aryan features.
The Aryans who migrated to India from Sintashta-Andronovo had black hair and brown eyes mostly.
The most Aryan community of South Asia(Rors of Haryana) hv black hair and dark eyes, meanwhile kalash or Nuristani hv light features, it simply due to natural selection or genetic mutation.
Even High AASI-IVC groups like Chitpavans hv lighter eyes.
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You sir are correct
A well read educated man
A rarity amongst those who comment on yt 😊
The dark hair is a myth. Light brown hair and brunetteish hair were common. Even today in india many have very light brown hair.
Actually yes ..my mother has deep brown hairs ...mine father's is deep black ..I got hair with very deep brown shade...
@SlaveOfDevas
@@sriparnoghosh2424 That is what I'm talking about. Even my little brother has them and they are on the lighter shade. Not to forget many folks who had even lighter brown hair that I have seen
Aryan migration has been debunked 😂
North Pakistan: Kalash Kafirs: A rider figure of the Kafirs, formerly placed in cemeteries in memory of important deceased persons. -
Indira is a god of rain in Hinduism i think there were ancient Hindus 🚩❤.
Man how much I wish I was born back in those days just so I can pull something along the lines of Mr McNair‘s adventure
@@loshadkinloshadkin725 you can still have adventure, only the style of Adventure has changed
@@HarshSingh-zj2bf true that. I’m planning to go to Afghanistan as a matter of fact as soon as I make some money.
These times were the most terrible times in the history of the region. the English helped Brutal dictators like Abdul Rahman Khan to commit genecides and forcebly convert the Kafirs, take many of them as slaves etc. many of the problems in Afghasnitan goes back to these times.
@@hamidhamidi3134 That is not true no the British were not successful in converting, about 10 to 12 percent of population was converted by the Malach or the Muslims, the Muslims were called Malach by the Indians which means non believers & filthy , but the rate of production of children by Muslims is very high because of 4 wife’s , now the population of Muslims in India is almost 18 %
@@hamidhamidi3134 I can agree there, the British in their greed and chase of power screwed up the disposition not only in Afghanistan, but in most parts of Eurasia. By justice south Turkestan, as well as the rest of Turkestan, Hazarajat and Kafiristan should’ve gone off to the Russian Empire, which would’ve saved them from genocides and religious radicalisation.
There are plenty of pictures from Robertsons Kafir's of the Hindu Kush book that show shrines , effigies & the local female horned headdress . There is all so a detailed description of the Imra temple at Parun valley that was the holiest temple in all Kafiristan . There is all so the photos taken by the Norwegian ethnologist Morgenstierne who visited & photographed & studied both the kafir refugee villages in the Kalash valleys & the mixed Kalash and Kati Kafir valley of Urtsun .
The Urtsun valley Kailash were tributaries to the Nuristani Kafirs,but they eventually lost control of it after their invasion by the Mehatr of Chitral.
@@Yilkanzhi_Nooristani Nuristani Kafirs ??? that would be Kafiristani's . And it was Nuristanis who attacked in the late 1930s & killed most of the valleys last Pagans thus making the Islamic take over complete in the valley .That at least is what the last Pagan a lady called Mranzi who was the daughter of the last Urtsun priest - Chief And who married into the Biriu valley Kalash after the conversion of her valley .
SIr George Scott Robertson's expedition to Kaffiristan was way more important for scholars of the Kam people
British military help, cause capturing Kalashistan and converting them to Islam
Hindus when they hear theyre not the oldest pagan religion: 🥺🥺🥺🥺 WAAAA SAAARR
at 19:14 in the video, he notes that McNair wrote that their supreme being was 'Indra' which is an ancient Vedic god and still very common in Hindu Vedic tradition today. And it is very well known that Chitral was part of Ancient Gandhara, which is mentioned in Ramayana. Even on Wikipedia it states that the Kafiristan people followed an ancient Hinduism
@@thinkingcitizensince you seem to know about the topic I always wondered how are modern Hindus able to reconcile between knowing of ancient Hinduism and the dates Hinduism says of their gods? I also read online that ancient Hindus believed in Vedas only so in your belief do you think the Gita and other Hindu scripture work with Vedas?
Lol hindu are not pagans we are Vedic we follows vedic teachings we have vedic and oldest civilization we are the oldest vedic civilization in the world
Muslims after learning there are non muslims - Allahu Akbar boooom😂😂
@@thinkingcitizen if your only source is wikipedia then im sorry i cant take you seriously.
Nothing hindu about it 😂😂😂 these civilisations have outlived Hinduism and Zrorastians☺️ Hinduism is not a religion but a mosaic of practices all combined from 1001 cultures and labeled as Hinduism
Hahaha 🤣 they're converted forcefully to live pisslam whereas many zoastrians and Hindu migrated to India and Indian subcontinent muslims are just converted muslims by Turks and Uzbek as Afghanistan and Pakistan were coward 😂😂
Iam hindu but somewhat this is true. 😂
@@tjay8433 hahaha 🤣 Bheemta 💩 wale aagye 😂😂
Hind is region which is East for east part of sindhu and they used to follow sanatana Dharma which is mentioned in Rigveda and other different different 1001 culture 😅 Bharat🇮🇳, even Zoroastrianism get their name from Zoroastar writer of avasta, and We believe in Dharma not in religion we don't have Abrahamic religion concept of Only god, we are follower of sanatana Dharma who lives in Hind sanatana Dharma means eternal duty or eternal Order 😂so don't apply your Abrahamic religion idiology on us. We worship nature we worship murti concept of duality everything is god nothing is god, then concept of one god parabramh
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
This channel will go fur, if remains in this path.
Is it worth mentioning that they are forced to convert to islam.
5:05... 'Kaffir' doesn't mean heretic, it means infidel... The Kaffiristanians finally got defeated and had Islam shoved down their throats by Abdur Rahman Khan, after he got modern firearms from the British...
In humane and hope they respect their roots and learn the truth of how were manipulated one by one, the entire mountain range is called HinduKush or where thrown from, hope ones in Chitral flee and the only way right now as no future.
As a child I remember reading a National Geographic article about the Kalash Kafirs. Suggestion was, they were Greek, and the Persian empire had moved any captured Greeks to the far end of the empire from Greece. Thus the European look and unislamic behavior patterns.
They were ancient people like Hindus and zoroastrians. Their Gods like yama and indira are hindu gods.
Most likely Scythians.
no but closely related. They were aryans too
As well as Science and education will spread..the religious dogmatism will mate its final fate..
my hindu brothers and sisters of Afghanistan converted by anarchist
But you lenin worshipper bangals aren’t even hindu.You people are the most anti hindu in india beside malayalis.
forcibly converted after the British trained and armed the Afghans with modern weapons , they then redrew the border so that a small stripe of Afghan territory separated British India from the Russian empire .Boys were kidnapped taken to Kabul and brainwashed into Islam , Kafir priests were all murdered and shrines and temples and ancestor effigies set alight .
@@user-mg2ip8cr8zI am a nooristani of Afghanistan and I am so happy that our ancestors converted from paganism to Islam. Our ancestors weren't Hindus, they were pagan and had special way of life, unlike hindus we haven't burned the dead bodies, nooristani or kafiristan has nothing to do with Hinduism. In ancient times, most afghan followed Zoroastrianism and some of them followed Buddhism but none of them were Hindus. According to u guys all the world is Hindu.
@@Harry-gy4fpbhuddhism also is related to hinduism you dummie😂
@@Harry-gy4fp so no surprise that those who are brought up believing in Islam would be happy to be Muslims , as for no connection to modern Hinduism there is no connection to modern Hinduism but plenty to ancient Vedic culture . The town of Wama is still has its ancient mountain garden called the Indrakun . Thats the Vedic gpd Indra that its named after and that's just one example .Zoroastrianism and Hindiuism and Kafiristani culture all come for the same source Vedic culture .
Mother nature still saves many indigenous people
That is the nature of that religion.
Nope
Islam destroyed this beautiful land
I'm from panjsher Afghanistan Islam saved us from occupation from western invaders and allowed Afghans to keep their identity.
@@oneman80840nice joke 🤣 western countries rarely invaded instead turks and Arabs converted and Afghanistan is more in west side that's why it's all got converted 😂😂 that's why they're treated as toilet cleaner in Arab countries 😂😂 even Syria people don't like dirty converted muslims of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India but kind towards other Indians.
It's a bot InshaAllah. It's probably been trained to respond by saying it's not a bot@@oneman80840
@@oneman80840 which identity? You guys follows a Semitic religion and language not indo-aryan Traditions.
@@user-zn1rr8fd4n we are Muslims 😊 the truth does not belong to a tribe or cast (Islam is for all humanity)…If you want to learn about our attitude towards so called “Indo-aryan traditions” research the meaning of the “Hindu Kush” mountains.
Many psuedo historians here. Kafiristanis of Afghanistan converted to Islam in 1890s. Today the area is called Nooristan. But now Kalash region of Pakistan is called Kafiristan due to pagans living there
They were forced to convert. Also calling the Kalash "pagans" shows your bias.
They are simply called kalash valley in Pakistan
The man who would be kings.
One mistake. Swat too was semiautonomous princely state.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIDEO!!!
It's so sad to hear another beautiful anicent culture being wiped out by CRUEL islam. God knows how many precious knowledge was destroyed by islam.
Hindus are the ancestors of every person. It is because it is the oldest living civilization and it is very vast and endless.
Kafiristani pagan traditions outdate even Hinduism and Zoroastrian religion and so it is safe to say that they were the earliest aryan and Indian ancestors. So they were not Hindus and Vedic. They were the ancestors of Hindu and Vedic religion
@@zakialmahin7278 This again proves, Eslam is violent and intolorent in it's original form.
Certainly not mine. Maybe of baboons and chimpanzies
Nuristani religion alreasy existed before Hinduism and the source for Hinduism other than Harappa and Dravidian Paganism.
@@zakialmahin7278
There is nothing called hindu religion. A collection of local traditions who lived east of river Indus and some of whom had adopted Vedic textbooks of Indo Europeans were called hindus by persians and those groups adopted that name because they did not have any common identity and needed one.
Kafir means Disbeliever (or Unbeliever).
It's completely different from Heretic which is Zindiq.
Fascinating story I knew nothing of
Correction: The name Afghanistan is a British creation and did not exist until the late 1800's. The original name is Aryana, Khorasan, which has a history of over 7000 years. the British named the land Afghanistan, land of the Aughan or Pashtun, to use the Aughans in the Southern regions for the conquest of the land of Aryana Khorasan. Today everyone in that land is misidentified as Aughan because of the British.
Modern Afghanistan is founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, who worked for Nader Shah of Iran, Nader Shah was responsible for sacking of Delhi 1737.
The name Afghan exists since 7th century AD. An Indian mathematician refers to them as "Apagana". Aspa and Asba are Persian and Farsi respectively for horse.
@@agnelomascarenhas8990 that is based on misinformation
Lol then why there was an pashtoon emperor in 1700 named Mahmoud afghan
True ❤
Now khosrasan is just a occupied territory of Pashtuns 🗿
Beautiful video. Goes on to show how foreign Arabian and Iranic people shamelessly dominated over South Asia and tried to remove our cultural and linguistic imprint to make us subservient to them using excuse of monotheism and Islam.
Too bad this beautiful region got succumbed to the ugly discriminatory politics and war waged by Muslims. This makes me, as a Hindu Indian, even more strict and patriotic about my country and strongly connected to my own religion, language and culture. Forced monotheism, Abrahamic values and their languages have NO PLACE whatsoever in India. Even our 200M Muslims today used Sanskritized language when indulging in intellectual debates, we are not interested in Arabizing or Iranicizing ourselves. India is its own Ummah, and by Krishna's grace we survived for a reason.
Yesss God bless India, islam is nothing but a political idealogy that destroys cultures and ask’s ppl to surrender their nationality and all that for what 😂. Islam has only extended the arab desert culture; hell it’s even destroyed arabian paganism as well in the process. I honestly can’t stand it anymore
hindu, or gandu ?
Such a shameful and painful anihilation of Indic religions from the land of Buddha Afghanistan.
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Nobody should be forced to adhere any religion, culture, customs...
All of these Hindu nationalist trying to claim Afghans😂 being called a Hindu in Afghanistan is an insult for us 😂
Hindu nationalists are not claiming Afghans. They are claiming the land and its culture. All you slaves of Mecca and Madinah are free to leave that land and go sulk beside that Meccan black box where thousands died this year.
Being called Hindu in Afghanistan being an insult SHOWS HOW BADLY the Middle Eastern people defeated you, enslaved you and brainwashed you. Now you are just trying to hide your shame by bullying your own brothers and sisters from India because THEY protected their culture, language and religion while Afghans became the SLAVES of Saudi Arabians. Good luck, but we will not keep quiet anymore. Jaya Shri Ram. Jayatu Gandharadesham (Afghanistan is temporary, Gandhara desh is permanent)
Hahaha 🤣 being called Afghanistan and Pakistan is more insult for any human being 😂😂
Go to a foreign country and then call yourself aphgan and then see the reaction.
Some aphgans often pretend as indian in foreign countries
@@itsoblivion8124 nobody wants to be Indian bro 😂 no need to insult us Hindui goo khor kuss madar highly recommend you look at the meaning of “Hindu Kush” mountains
@@itsoblivion8124 I have,nothing happened…nobody wants to be Indian bro 😂 (no need to insult us) Hindui goo khor kuss madar highly recommend you look at the meaning of “Hindu Kush” mountains
Great video!
Fascinating
I’m enthralled by the Content but not the narrators voice. This might be a symptom of the new generation, but the narrators lack of inflection, invokes boredom with the subject. This is my observation, and hopefully invokes a change in the narrators ability to imagine the authors first-hand experience.
Men are less manly these days
The subject is excellent but the narrator has neither knowledge of the area nor the languages. He even mispronounced Strachan, and that is a Scot's name, which should be known to a reasonably educated American. To listen to such mangling of the language can scarcely be relaxing or instructive. The videos have no footage of Nuristan. It is all taken from areas further East. A Kalash viewer may be able to speak to the footage of the people.
Speak for yourself. I find people who are too interested in themselves and the sounds of their own voices exhausting. No doubt including yourself based on your snide comment
1000%. Compare old narration voices with new ones, the difference is INSANE and really shows how feminized we have become
As a south african
You have no idea how funny that name is
😂😂😂😂
Good
Similar story to the Cathars
☪️ancer
Cringe comment.
@@naim_sulaimankhel Womp womp 🤣🔥
@@TonyStark-mm6qyare you dog?
@@naim_sulaimankhel Are you pig bullah? 🤣🔥
@@naim_sulaimankhel it takes a dog to know a dog
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thank you for your report Sir !!!
Well presented!
Cracking video.
Too bad he didn't write a book. Would be akin to 'A system of Caucasian yoga'.
The primary source for this video is McNair's 'A Visit to Kafiristan' which is included in the 'Memoir of William Watts McNair' available for free online: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10382
Interesting...
Area is called kafirstan for their disbelif in one almiety, are said to be descendents of aldxander thed great, and the associated religion. They are recognised as an ethnicity , people reavel from far places to visit them.
this is in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. they rnt aryans, arryans are in Kohistan. another Pak region. Kifiristan ppl r from Alexander the gr8.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
News flash, Aryan is not race. It is like calling gentleman a race.
Greeks werent aryans
Dear Nuristanis, the whiteman is NOT your friend.
Apparently, neither are the Muslims who conquered them and forced them to convert to Islam.
@@StockyDude if you don’t mind me asking where are you from?
@@StockyDudedo you scare of your birth place where are you from so we can recognise you ?
@@mirwaiszazai9044Why do you need to recognise me? My country of origin is irrelevant to the discussion. If you cannot prove my argument wrong, then you lost. It’s that simple. The only reason you want to recognise me is because you want to send your terrorist friends to find me. You yourself are probably a terrorist.
@@StockyDudeyes 😎
They were the Last Hindu's of Afghanistan.
Thankfully they were invaded and forcfully converted to the religion of peace.
They were not the people of the idol worshiping Arab barbaric civilization. They were the people of India's Sanatan Dharma. In India's Sanatan Dharma and philosophy, there is worship of God in many ways along with idol worship. They were the remaining people of ancient India and religion. Who had preserved their religion in those areas. But Islam is against the mixed civilization of Arabic ideology. Whereas Hindu civilization takes all the people along. Many beautiful cultures have been destroyed because of Abrahamic religions. Present America, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabic pagan, Sabian, Jewish, Yozidian civilization, Roman, Russia, North African civilization, South African civilization, Spanish civilization, all have been destroyed by Abrahamic religions. Nature and God will make them pay for it in the coming times.
No such thing as sanatana dharma except in Hindu imagination.
Kafiristan 😂