Kafiristan

British  

/ ˌkæfɪrɪˈstɑːn /

noun

1. the former name of Nuristan

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Example Sentences

He was a soldier again a decade later in John Huston’s “The Man Who Would Be King,” based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, playing a military officer who’s embraced as a god in Kafiristan, an impression he struggles to maintain.

From Washington Times

They are the last survivors of the people of Kafiristan, who were mostly converted to Islam in the nineteenth century.

From Reuters

Chitral. from the Hindu Kush, is the lofty snow-clad spur of the Hindu Kush known as Shawal, across which one or two difficult passes lead into the Bashgol valley of Kafiristan.

From Project Gutenberg

The Mandal pass, a few miles south of the Dorah, is the connecting link between the Oxus and the Bashgol valley of Kafiristan; and the Bashgol valley leads directly to the Chitral valley at Arnawai, about 50 m. below Chitral.

From Project Gutenberg

For many years, though, Nagaland – surrounded by red tape and the guns of the Assam Rifles – remained a dream destination, much as Kafiristan had been for Brothers Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, freemasons and soldiers of fortune, in Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, a short story that I had read over and again as a boy.

From The Guardian