Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Nuristani people are an Indo-Iranian-speaking ethnic group native to the Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan. The Nuristanis are a people whose ancestors practised an Indo-Iranian polytheistic Vedic religion until they were conquered and converted to Islam in the late 19th century by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. In the mid-1890s he conducted a campaign in Kafiristan and followed up his conquest with religious conversions the region thenceforth being known as Nuristan the Land of Light.
