1 BILOGH, PATHAN, AND ALLIED RACES. 79
2 accompanied the Durrani into Hindustan, and bronght back much wealth But since that
3 time the Bitanni and other tribes hare encroached, and they are now small and feeble. The
4 Xawab of Tank, the principal jagirdar of the district, is a Katti Khel.
5 The Tator have been mentioned in section 399. They were very roughly treated by Ndilir
6 Shah, and the Danlat Khel completed their ruin. They are now almost extinct. Their two clans,
7 the Bara Khel and Dari Khei, hold a small area on the Tank and Kulachi frontier.
8 402. Pawindah, Bord3r, and other tribes.— The tribes not possessing sufficient importance
9 to merit detailed description are —
10 The Zarkaili, a small colony of Shekhs who settled some 503 years ago in a corner between
11 the Gandapuranl ilian Khel c>antry, under the fojt of the Snlemaus.
12 The BalUCh, a small tribe of uncertain origin affiliated to the Lodi tribes.' They seem to have
13 come in with the earliest PatUau invaders. Tliey hold the cjuntry round Paniala, at the foot of
14 the Salt-range where it leaves the Indus t J turn northwards, and are the dominant race in the
15 north of the els-Indus portion of the dis trict.
16 The Khasor, wiih the Nur Khel and Mali! Khel, form a small tribe which claims kinship with
17 the Lodi, who repudi.ite the claim. Tliey hoM the Khasor range, or the ridge, of the lower Salt-
18 range wbicli runs down the right bank of the Indus.
19 The Ghorezai, a petty clan of the Tabarak Kaka, and the Miani, an insignificant p/xwindah
20 clan of the Shirani tribe, liold lands in the Gomal valley, the fonner lying south and the latter
21 noith of the Luni river. They gi-aze their flocks daring summer on the western slopes of the
22 Suli-mans. A ijortion of the Jliani are independent pawindahs, but closely allied to those of our
23 plains.
24 The Kundi are a small pawindnh clan who claim descent from the ancestor of the Xiazi;
25 They settled in Tank with the Daulat Khel Lohani, and originally held the tract along the Sulioli
26 stream in the North-east corner of Tank. But within the last 50 years Marwat immigrants have
27 encroached largely on their eastern lands. They are a lawless set and great robbers, and the
28 proverb runs — " A dead Kundi is better than a live one. "-
29 The Pawindah Tribes. — These tribes, which have been described generally in section 398>
30 although not holding lauds in the district, are of considerable administrative interest, as enormous
31 numbers of them spend the cold weather iu the pastures on either side of the Indus. The principal
32 tribes are noticed below : —
33 The Nasar claim descent from Hotak, a grandson of Ghilzai ; but the Hotak say that they are
34 a BUcch clan, and merely dependent on tliem.s They speak Pashto, but differ from the Ghilzai
35 in physique. They are the least settled of all the patoindahs, and winter in the Derajat and
36 summer in the Ghilzai country, having no home of their own. Their chief wealth is in flocks and
37 herds, and they act as carriers rather than as traders. They are a rough sturdy lot, but fairly well
38 behaved.
39 The Kharoti say they are an offshoot of Tokhi, mother of Hotak mentioned above. But the
40 Tokhi say they arc descended from a foundling whom the tribe adopted. Tliey hold the country
41 about the sources of the Gomal river in Warghiin south by east of Ghazni, and they winter in the
42 Tank tahsfl. They are a poor tribe, and many of them work as labourers or carriers. Dr. Bellew
43 identifies them with the Ai-achoti of Alexander's historians, and points out that they still live in the
44 ancient Arachosia. He considers them and the Ka-ar to be of different origin from the mass of the
45 Ghilzai.
46 The Suleman Khel are the most numeroos, powerful, and warlike of all the Ghilzai
47 2021 trihes, and hold a large tract stretching nearly the whole length of the Ghilzai country.
48 Those who trade with India come chiefly from the hiUs cast of Ghazni and winter in the
49 northern trans-Indus tract. They bring but little merchandize with them, but go down-
50 country in great numbers, where they act 8; brokers or dallals between the merchants
51 and other pawindahs. They are fine strong men and fairly well behaved, though not bearing
52 the best of characters.
53 The Mian Khels have already been described in section 401. The trading and landowning
54 sections are still closely connected, and in fact to some ext.-nt indistinguishable.
55 The Dutanni inhabit the Warrak valley and the country bet iveen the Waziri hills and
56 Gomal. They are a small, but well-to-do tribe, and trade with Bukliara.
57 ' It is not perhaps impossible that these may be of Biloch origin. The Khetrau, perhaps of
58 Pathan origin, have become the nucleus of a Biloch tribe ; wliile 351 men of Derah Ismail returned
59 themselves in this Census aa caste Biloch, tribe Andar, which latter is one of the Pawindah tribes
60 of Pathans.
61 2 Macgregor says they are quiet and inoffensive.
62 3 One story makes them the descendants of a gang of blacksmiths who in the 14th centupy
63 accompanied the Mi'au Khel on one of their return journeys to Khorasan and settled there.