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A British doctor and authority on oriental languages, Henry Walter Bellew, accredited for writing the first Pashto dictionary, suggested that some Pashtuns (Pathans) are actually a mixture of the ancient Greeks and Indian Rajput peoples.[1][2] Bellew's theory was that many Pashtun tribal names could be some what traced to Greek and Rajput names, which posits the further possibility of a great Greek mixing with the ancient border tribes of India.[1][3]

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  1. ^ a b Are the Pathans in fact Rajputs? By Khaled Ahmad, Daily Times (retrieved 04 May 2007).
  2. ^ Swatis and Afridis, By T. H. Holdich, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (1899), pp. 2-9 (retrieved 04 May 2007).
  3. ^ Where do the Chach Pathans originate from? By Dilawar Khan, Dilawar Khan (retrieved 04 May 2007).
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