Blavatsky H.P. - The Akhund of Swat: Difference between revisions

{{Style P-Subtitle|MADAME BLAVATSKY’S DRAMATIC WORD-PAINTING AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF ABDUL GHAFUR’S REMARKABLE AND EVENTFUL CAREER — ANTAGONISM OF THE SIKHS TO THE MODERN HIEROPHANT —— ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS OF THE POPES OF ROME AND SAIDU.}}

Of the many remarkable characters of this century, Ghafur was one of the most conspicuously so.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[The inhabitants of Swat—a tract on the Peshawâr border of the North-West Frontier Province of India—are a clan of Yusafzai Pathâns. They are Suni Mohammedans. As their religious leader, the Akhund of Swat, Abdul Ghafur, born in 1794, ruled the tribe for the last thirty years of his life, and died in 1877. He was succeeded by his son Mian Gul, who, however, never possessed the same influence as his father. —Compiler.]}}</ref>