1 / f y —sVv
2 CP
3 • ■
4 •
5 <SL
6 249
7 P a fia n tribes.
8 Uie greater part of TirAh. They are divided into five great clans, the Allezai, Massozai.
9 Daulatzai, Ismauzai, and Laahkarzai, of which the Daulatzai and Massozai are the most
10 numerous. The Muhammad Khel is the largest sept of the Daulatzai, and, alone of the
11 Orakzai, belongs to the Shiah sect. They are a fine manly tribe, but exceedingly turbulent.
12 They are divided between the SAmil and Gar factions. There are a considerable number
13 of Orakzai tenants scattered about the KohAt district. The present rulers of Bhopal belong
14 w this tribe. The Afridi will be found described below among the border tribes of
15 reshawar.
16 T h e P ath& n tr ib e s o f P ea h d w a r .—The PathAns of Peshawar belong, with the exception of
17 the Khattak described above, almost wholly to the Afghans proper, descendants of
18 oarban; and among them to the line of Karshabun or the representatives of the ancient
19 Oandhan, as distinguished from the true Afghans of Jewish origin who trace their descent
20 trom bharkhabun. I have already told, how during the 5th or 6th centurv a Gandhiri
21 colony emigrated to KandahAr, and there were joined and converted by the Afghan stock
22 of Ghor who blended with them into a single nation. Their original emigration was due
23 to the pressure of Jit and Scythic tribes who crossed the Hindu Kush and descended into
24 the valley of tho Kabul river. Among those tribes was probably the DilazAk,* who are
25 now classed as one of the Kodai Karlanri, and who were converted by Mahmud Ghaznavi
26 in the opening of the 11th century. They extended their sway over the Rawalpindi and
27 reshawar districts and the valley of the Kabul as far west as JaialAbid, driving many of the
28 i Hindki or GandhAri inhabitants into the valleys of Swat and Buner which lie in
29 tho hills to the north,_ and ravaging and laying wnste the fertile plain country. Amalga-
30 mating with the remaining Hindkis they lost tho purity of their faith, and were described as
31 infidels by the Afghans who subsequently drove them out.
32 The Kandahar colony of GandhAri was divided into two principal sections, the Khakhai
33 and Ghoria Khel, besides whom it included the descendants of Zamand and KAnsi. I give
34 below the principal tribes which trace their descent from Kharshabun for convenience of
35 reference i ~
36 f
37 „, , .
38 Yusufzai
39 f Mandanr............. Hold the PeshAwar plain
40 north of the KAbul river
41 called British Yusufzai, the
42 ... ■{
43 Chamlah valley on IhePe.
44 shAwar border, and part o!
45 Tr. . . .
46 Khakhai
47 _
48 . .
49 the Haripur tract in HazAra.
50 lYusufzat proper... Hold Sw4t, Buner, Panjkora,
51 ...<
52 and Dir; the hills north of
53 the Yfisufzai plain.
54 Gngi&nl .............................. Hold DoAba; the plains in the
55 angle between the Kibnl
56 .
57 and Swat river.
58 .............................................. Hold Bajaur tract west of
59 Swst
60 ,
61 ( Plains Mohmand Hold plains of PeshAwar on
62 (Mohmand ... j
63 right bank of B4ra river.
64 K&nd
65 Ghoria Khel
66 l
67 ..
68 .
69 i
70 \
71 ■
72 ...
73 Khalil
74 ...........
75 U.V.ji
76 (
77 ••• v
78 i Other.
79 - H°ld mountains north of KA-
80 bul river and west of the
81 SwAt-Kibul Dodb.
82 .............................. Hold PeshAwar plain on right
83 of KAbul river to
84 JittlG below tho j unction of
85 ...........
86 J ta ffi-r.
87 ... Hold the Pesh4war plains bo-
88 tween the D4ud*ai and tho
89 .................. * . pua.
90 east of 8w4t river in PeshA-
91 j
92 IsMnwAri
93 ...........
94 L Bar Mohmand
95 .................................. Scattered.
96 .............................. ®°kl part of Khaibar moun-
97 tains and the northern
98 .....................
99 : . . A “ r » S' M K «h-
100 t t S t .r t jS " ““
101 Klrnol R.jput .ItetlM,