Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was a Cornish officer and linguist in theBritish Indian Army.

Raverty was born inFalmouth, Cornwall.^[1]

He served from 1843 to 1864, rising to the rank of Major in the3rd Bombay Native Infantry.^[1]

Raverty fought in thePunjab campaign of 1849–1850 andSwat campaign of 1850. He compiled agazetteer ofPeshawar. While serving in Peshawar he was taughtPashto by the scholar Qazi Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai (1827–1899) andMirza Muhammad Ismail (1813–1912)^[2][3][4] and he began to studyAfghan poetry.^[5]

On retirement from the army, he returned to England and continued his oriental studies, culminating in his vastNotes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan and his unpublishedHistory of Herat. He died atGrampound Road, Cornwall, England in 1906.^[1]

• A Grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto or Language of the Afghans (1855; 2nd edition 1860; 3rd edition, 1867)
• Thesaurus of English and Hindūstānī Technical Terms (1859)
• A Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pushto, or Language of the Afghans (1860; 2nd edition, 1867)
• Selections from the Poetry of the Afghāns, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (1862)
• The Gulshan-i-roh : being selections, prose and poetical, in the Pus'hto, or Afghān language (1867)
• The Fables of Aesop al-Hakīm (1871)
• A Pushto Manual (1880)
• The Tabakat-i-Nasiri of Minhaj-i-Saraj, Abu-Umar-i-Usman: A general history of the Muhammadan dynasties of Asia, including Hindustan from A. H. 194 (810 A. D.) to A. H. 658 (1260 A. D.), and the irruption of the infidel Mughals into Islam (1881) (translation from the Persian)
• Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan (1881–1888, Pakistani edition 1978)

• Selections from the Poetry of the Afghāns, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, 1869 (full text)
• A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans: with remarks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to other oriental tongues. Second edition, with considerable additions. London: Williams and Norgate, 1867 (as digital dictionary).

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