Safed-Posh Kaffirs

Safed-Posh Kafirs or Sped-Posh Kafirs ("White-Robed Kaffirs"), also known as the Lal-Posh Kafirs("Red-Robed Kaffirs") were designations for three Nuristani clans:

  • the Wais or Waigulis;
  • the Askunus or Ashkuns and/or
  • the Presungulis, Prasunguli, Vasi or Viron people.

These names were based on the traditional colors of their clothes and the Islamic term kafir, meaning "unbeliever,"or "disbeliever" – reflecting their status as a religious and ethnic minority, the members of which long rejected – or continues to reject – conversion to Islam

Some authors, such as George Scott Robertson, have considered this classification unsatisfactory, and regard the three groups as separate, on the same level as the Siah-Posh Kafirs.

Robertson claimed that the Presunguli were the original inhabitants of Nuristan (also known as Kafiristan) and that the Ashukuns were allied to the Waigulis.[1]

See also

Footnotes
  1. George Scott Robertson, The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush, 1896, p. 74 sqq., Arthur David McCormick.

Sources
  • Sped-Posh: George S. Robertson, Dr Holdich, H. A. Rose etc.
  • Lal_Posh: The Gates of India, p 270, Dr Holdich.


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