1 84, PANJAB CASTES.
2 guarding the high road between Attak and Pcslitiwar. This? Lronglit him into
3 contact with the Mandanr of Yusufzai who held the country opposite on the
4 left l)ank of the Kiiliul river. Tlieir quarrels were continual ; and at length in
5 the time of Sluih Jahan the Khatak crossed the river, possessed tliemselves of
6 the strip of land along its north bank from the junction of tlie Swat river
7 to the Indus and for a short distance along the right bank of the Indus, and
8 also pushed across the plain and acquired a position about Januilgarhi to the
9 north of Mardan, in the very heart of the Mandanr country, which comma i ids
10 the approaches to Swat on the one hand and Bancr on the other. They have
11 also encroached on the Mohmand and Khalil who lie to the west of their
12 Peshawar ten-it ory. Meanwhile they had gradually spread southwards to the
13 trans-Indus Salt-range and the Bannu border, and across the Salt-range to the
14 Indus at Kaliibiigh ; and they now hold a broad strip running along its rii',ht
15 bank from a little above the junction of the Kalnil river to Kaliibagh, all
16 Kohiit save the portion occupied by the Bangash in the north and north-west
17 of the district, and the western half of the Lundkhwar valley in the north of
18 Yusufzai. They crossed the Indus and are said to have at one time conquered
19 the AwJin country as far east as the Jahlam. But about the middle of the
20 1 7th century they relincpiished the gi-eater part of this tract j and now only
21 hold Makhad in the Kawalpindi district, and the left liank of the river as
22 far south as Mari in Bannu. There are other Khatak holdings scattered
23 about the cis-Indus plains ; liut their owners have uo connection with the
24 tribe.
25 About the middle of the 18th century two parties grew up in the tribe.
26 .They temporarily combined to accompany and assist Ahmad Shah Durrani
27 in his invasion of Hindustan; but after his departure the division became
28 permanent, the eastern or Akora faction holding the north-eastern pprtion of
29 Kohat and all the Khatak country of Peshawar, with their capital at Akora
30 on the Kabul river, while the western or Teri division hold all the remainder
31 of K<:hat, including the south-eastern corner occupied by the Saghri clan, and
32 the adjoining teiTitory of the Bangi Khel Khatak of Bannxi. The western
33 section have their capital at Teri, south-west of Kohat, and in the centre of the
34 hills they first occupied.
35 Thus with the exception of a few Awan villages in the Bangash country,
36 and a Saivad village here and there, the whole of Kohat is held by Pathans,
37 and with the exception of a naiTOW strip of laud stretching along the northern
38 border of the Teri Khatak from Togh to Dhoda which is held by the Niiizi
39 (see section 400), the whole is in the hands of the Bangash and Khatak. The
40 Nawab of Khatak holds the Teri tract in jagir, possessing exclusive revenue
41 jurisdiction, and large criminal and police power?.
42 407. The Khatak.— The history of the Khatak tribe hai been sketched above. They
43 are descended from Luqman surnamed Khatak, son oi Burhau, son of Kakai.' Luqnian had two
44 sons Turmau and Euhiq. The descendants of the latter are still known as the Bulaqi section ;
45 while Tarai. son of Turman, rose to snch distinction that the whole section, including two main
46 clans, the Tari projjer and the Tarkai, is called by his name. They have absorbed several small
47 tribes of doubtful origin, the Mugiaki and Samini - belonging to the Bnlaq. while the Jalozai,
48 Dangarzai, and Uria Khel belong to the Tari section. The most important clans of the Tari
49 section are the Anokhel to which, the chief's family belongs, aud which includes the sejits of the
50 upper and lower Mohmandi^ who hold the right bank cf the Indus below Attak, and the Mi'r
51 ' Kakal was son of Kar^fin, founder of the Karlanri division of the Afghans.
52 2 Dr. Bellew interprets those names as meaning respectively Mongol and Chinese.
53 SThe Mobmaudi of the K.hwarra valley of the Koh.at District are quite distinct from the
54 Mohmand of Peshawar.