Folk Efforts of Professor Reshteen

Abstract

Professor Seddiqullah Rashteen gave his shoulder to the service of the Pashto language and literature at a time when the Pashto language was lagging behind other neighboring languages in this region in terms of science and culture. making this language academic, official, and the language of teaching and press was a very important demand and basic need of the time. At that time, some famous writers started academic and purposeful work for the service of Pashto language and literature. A person from this group, Professor Rashtin, also joined the literary and cultural range of the Pashto language in those early days and started scientific and practical efforts in the process of growth and development of the Pashto language and literature. Along with his academic colleagues, Rishteen has started collecting and researching ancient, classical literature and other aspects of literature, along with rules and grammar of the Pashto language, folk, and folk literature. Here only a brief review of his writings and research on folklore and folklore literature is taken.