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This is certain that Khushal Khan Khattak is a writer of number of voluminous
books. He wrote both in prose and verse envisages the whole new trends and genres of
his era. According to Major Roverty he is the author of more than 300 books in which
20 books are available. Swat Nama is one of his books which have been composed in
verse and very much closed to the modern genre of travelogue. Khushal Khan Khattak
expressed his views in this book which he was observed during his travel to Swat.
This book carry all the literary and knowledge based information related to history of
Pashtuns, geography, and religious etc. of inhabitants of Swat and political conscious
of the then Pashtuns as a whole. Swat Nama in verse can be considered is the first
travelogue of Pashto literature. A few writers and intellectuals placed this book in the
genre of reportage but by analyzing the contents of the book we can say that the book
under discussion is very similar to the modern genre of travelogue. This paper deals
with the contents as well as the fixation of genre in Pashto literature and effort has
been made that the literary and historical significance may be explained by presenting
some reference and evidences.
Javed Iqbal. (2017) Research and Critical Analysis of Swat Nama, Pashto, Volume 46, Issue 1.
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