H. G. Raverty

Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an officer and linguist in the British Indian Army.

Raverty was born in Falmouth, Cornwall.

He served from 1843 to 1864, rising to the rank of Major in the 3rd Bombay Native Infantry.

Raverty fought in the Punjab campaign of 1849–1850 and Swat campaign of 1850. He compiled a gazetteer of Peshawar. While serving in Peshawar he was taught Pashto by the scholar Qazi Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai (1827-1899) and Mirza Muhammad Ismail (1813-1912) and he began to study Afghan poetry.

On retirement from the army, he returned to England and continued his oriental studies, culminating in his vast Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan and his unpublished History of Herat. He died at Grampound Road, Cornwall, England in 1906.

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