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'''Henry George Raverty''' (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an officer and linguist in the [[British Indian Army]]. | '''Henry George Raverty''' (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an officer and linguist in the [[British Indian Army]]. | ||
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Raverty was born in [[Falmouth, Cornwall]].<ref name=ODNB/> | Raverty was born in [[Falmouth, Cornwall]].<ref name=ODNB/> | ||
He served from 1843 to 1864, rising to the rank of Major in the [[3rd Bombay Native Infantry]].<ref name=ODNB>{{ODNBweb|id=35686|title=Raverty, Henry George (1825–1906)|first=Schuyler|last=Jones}}</ref> | He served from 1843 to 1864, rising to the rank of Major in the [[3rd Bombay Native Infantry]].<ref name=ODNB>{{ODNBweb|id=35686|title=Raverty, Henry George (1825–1906)|first=Schuyler|last=Jones|author1-link=Schuyler Jones}}</ref> | ||
Raverty fought in the [[Punjab campaign]] of 1849–1850 and [[Swat (Pakistan)|Swat]] campaign of 1850. He compiled a [[gazetteer]] of [[Peshawar]]. While serving in Peshawar he was taught [[Pashto language|Pashto]] by the scholar Qazi Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai (1827-1899) and [[Mirza Muhammad Ismail]] (1813-1912)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.khyber.org/publications/011-015/pashtobritishempire.shtml|title=Muhammad Ismail, Qandahari|publisher=|accessdate=14 November | Raverty fought in the [[Punjab campaign]] of 1849–1850 and [[Swat (Pakistan)|Swat]] campaign of 1850. He compiled a [[gazetteer]] of [[Peshawar]]. While serving in Peshawar he was taught [[Pashto language|Pashto]] by the scholar Qazi Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai (1827-1899) and [[Mirza Muhammad Ismail]] (1813-1912)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.khyber.org/publications/011-015/pashtobritishempire.shtml|title=Muhammad Ismail, Qandahari|publisher=|accessdate=14 November 2022}}</ref><ref>[http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/030316/books4.htm Articles: Thinking like a Pathan – Dawn Pakistan]</ref><ref>Mirza Muhammad Ismail Teacher of Raverty, [[Mirza Muhammad Ismail]]</ref> and he began to study [[Afghan poetry]].<ref>[http://www.the-south-asian.com/April2004/Books-Pathans-2.htm ''The Pathans – Classic Works & Reading''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821012600/http://www.the-south-asian.com/April2004/Books-Pathans-2.htm |date=21 August 2007 }}</ref> | ||
On retirement from the army, he returned to England and continued his oriental studies, culminating in his vast ''Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan'' and his unpublished ''History of Herat''. He died at [[Grampound Road]], Cornwall, England in 1906.<ref name=ODNB/> | On retirement from the army, he returned to England and continued his oriental studies, culminating in his vast ''Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan'' and his unpublished ''History of Herat''. He died at [[Grampound Road]], Cornwall, England in 1906.<ref name=ODNB/> | ||
Revision as of 21:12, 11 October 2022
Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an officer and linguist in the British Indian Army.
Life
Raverty was born in Falmouth, Cornwall.[1]
He served from 1843 to 1864, rising to the rank of Major in the 3rd Bombay Native Infantry.[1]
Raverty fought in the Punjab campaign of 1849–1850 and Swat campaign of 1850. He compiled a gazetteer of Peshawar. While serving in Peshawar he was taught Pashto by the scholar Qazi Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai (1827-1899) and Mirza Muhammad Ismail (1813-1912)[2][3][4] and he began to study Afghan poetry.[5]
On retirement from the army, he returned to England and continued his oriental studies, culminating in his vast Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan and his unpublished History of Herat. He died at Grampound Road, Cornwall, England in 1906.[1]
Works
- A Grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto or Language of the Afghans (1855; 2nd edition 1860; 3rd edition, 1867)
- Thesaurus of English and Hindūstānī Technical Terms (1859)
- A Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pushto, or Language of the Afghans (1860; 2nd edition, 1867)
- Selections from the Poetry of the Afghāns, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (1862)
- The Gulshan-i-roh : being selections, prose and poetical, in the Pus'hto, or Afghān language (1867)
- The Fables of Aesop al-Hakīm (1871)
- A Pushto Manual (1880)
- The Tabakat-i-Nasiri of Minhaj-i-Saraj, Abu-Umar-i-Usman: A general history of the Muhammadan dynasties of Asia, including Hindustan from A. H. 194 (810 A. D.) to A. H. 658 (1260 A. D.), and the irruption of the infidel Mughals into Islam (1881) (translation from the Persian)
- Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan (1881–1888, Pakistani edition 1978)
References
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Sindh jo Mehran (in Sindhi language), published by the Sindhi Language Authority, Hyderabad, Sindh.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Template:ODNBweb
- ↑ "Muhammad Ismail, Qandahari". Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ↑ Articles: Thinking like a Pathan – Dawn Pakistan
- ↑ Mirza Muhammad Ismail Teacher of Raverty, Mirza Muhammad Ismail
- ↑ The Pathans – Classic Works & Reading Archived 21 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Selections from the Poetry of the Afghāns, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, 1869 (full text)
- A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans: with remarks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to other oriental tongues. Second edition, with considerable additions. London: Williams and Norgate, 1867 (as digital dictionary).