The Shalmani or Shilmani (Pashto: شلمانى) is a Pashto speaking Dardic tribe.
Distribution edit
Shalamnis live in Shalman Valley in Khyber Agency as well as the Hazara Division Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[1] They Also live in various areas of Khyber pakhtunkhwa: Swat, Upper Dir, Buner, Shangla, Malakand District, Dargai and Charsadda
References edit
- ^ "Lost Tajiks or the forgotten Dards of Pakistan?". Wemountsins.
Further reading edit
- Christian Tripodi (2011). Edge of Empire: The British Political Officer and Tribal Administration on the North-West Frontier 1877-1947. Ashgate Publishing. p. 206. ISBN 9780754694915. OCLC 726826683.
- H.A. Rose (1914). A Glossary of the Tribes & Castes of the Punjab & North-west Frontier Province. Superintendent, Government printing, Punjab. OCLC 635489321.
- H.A. Rose (1997). A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Vol. 3. Nirmal Publishers. ISBN 9788185297705.
- "Tribe, Clan, & Ethnic Genealogies". US Naval Postgraduate School.
- Teepu Mahabat Khan (2005). The land of Khyber. Sang-e-Meel Publications. ISBN 9693517520. OCLC 192109133.
- Shamsur Rahman Shams (1990). The Poets of Malakand. OCLC 24832107.
- Imperial Gazetteer of the North-West Frontier Province. Government of India. 1908.
- A Glossary of the Castes and Tribes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Vol. 2. Government of India. 1914. p. 233.