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↑ Up one levelThe Burusho of Hunza - A Mountain People of Kashmir
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GB 891 LOR-LOR/1-LOR/1/3-LOR/1/3/1
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Published
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Date(s)
- 19th Oct 1935 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1881-1949)
Biographical history
Emily Overend Lorimer (1881-1949) was a British linguist, political analyst and author, She was a tutor in Germanic Philology at Somerville College Oxford ,1907-10, and editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17. She was with her husband, David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, British resident in Cairo during the First World War and its Arab Revolt. She was an early translator and analyst of Nazi works, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in the 1920s and 1930s. She worked with her husband on Asian studies.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
"Speakers of a Language that is, perhaps related to no other: The Burusho of Hunza - a Mountain People of Northern Kashmir". Illustrated article with accompanying photo-articles, "The Crafts and Husbandry of the Burusho: A Mountain People in the "Apex" of India", and "Domestic and Outdoor Life in Hunza: A Peasant Community whose Language is Unique" by Emily Overend Lorimer. Printed in The Illustrated London News, 19 October, 1935. 2 pieces, 3 sides, the fourth side has an article "2-M.P.H. Relics on Salt Flats on which Campbell reached 300 M.P.H."
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Language of material
- English
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