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approximately twenty kilometers northeast of Drosh. These
Gujars are said to have migrated around 1947 from Peshmal and
Kalam in Swat Kohistan and from Arandu in the lower Chitral
River Valley. There are a few thousand Gujars located in
southern Chitral, in the area bordering Afghanistan, especially
near Arandu, but this area was inaccessible for research at the
time data were collected.
The Dir word list was elicited and checked in the town of
Dir with Gujars who live just a few hours traveling time up the
Panjkora Valley in the hills near Sheringal.
Two lists were collected from Swat District. The Settled
Swat word list was elicited and checked in Peshmal, a Gujar
town two kilometers south of Kalam in Swat Kohistan. The
Transhumant Swat word list, discussed above, was elicited from
Gujar herders, referred to as Ajars, who live in Ragushu village
in Lower Swat Valley during the winter months and shift to
northern Swat during the summer months in search of pastures
for their sheep and goats. The original elicited Transhumant Swat
list and the check were taken in Peshmal while these herders
were passing through scouting out pastures.
The Gilgit word list was elicited and checked in Naltar Bala,
a village in Naltar Valley, which opens into the Hunza River
valley, approximately forty kilometers north of Gilgit. The
village headman claims that the forefathers of the Naltar Bala
Gujars came from Swat Valley and from the Indus River valley,
from such places as Chilas, Komela, Darel, and Tangir. Every
winter about half the community of approximately 400 people
travels down to Sultanabad, about six kilometers from Gilgit; in
the summer, all but a few families go back to Naltar where they
have small farms.
The Kaghan word list was elicited and checked in Mittikot,
a village three hours walking distance up into the mountains
above Balakot, a town in northern Hazara at the mouth of the
Kaghan Valley. The Southern Hazara list was elicited from an
elderly man in the village of Tarchatti, located in the Haripur
tehsil of Abbottabad District. It was checked in the village of
Choigari, in the same tehsil and district.