104 Proceedings of the Asiatic Soctety. [ May, 
T.—A History or tuz Garx’nars, by J. G. Delmerick, Esq., 
Rawul Pindee. 
(Abstract.) 
Mr. Blochmann read extracts from the paper, which is to be pub- 
lished in the forthcoming number of Part I, of the Journal, for 
1871. He said—'The historical notes collected by Mr. Delmerick 
are most interesting, and comprise nearly every notice of the tribe 
found in the Muhammadan Historians of India. Mr, Delmerick 
mentions above forty chiefs who ruled over the tribe from the 
time of Mahmitd Ghazni till our age. The present chief, Karam 
Dad Khan, receives from the Government a small pension as a sort 
of compensation for the losses suffered by his family during the 
Sikh Rule. For the early history of the tribe, the author has used 
traditional information obtained by him on the spot, and there is 
no doubt that the principal facts are reliable. The Akbarnamah 
places the final settlement of the Gakk’hars in the Rawul Pindi 
District somewhat later than local traditions, 
Mr. Blochmann also mentioned that among the historical MSS. 
of the Society, there was a short history of Gakk’hars, presented 
some time ago by Major Pearse, who, on various occasions had con- 
tributed to the collections of the Society. There was a note on the 
fly-leaf of the MS. by the donor, according to which the work is 
“an extract from a larger work found at Rohtds.” Mr, Del- 
merick, to whom the book had been sent, says regarding it— 
“‘T consider it an original production from the brain of Donee 
Chand, the grandfather of Réizideh Ratan Chand of Goliana, zillah 
Rawul Pindi, the head of the ancient Qintingo family, I had 
already seen a copy of it. I believe the few historical facts contained 
in it have been scraped together from various histories, and chiefly 
from the legends or tales related by the bhdts of the country, par- 
ticularly from the family bhét of the Gakk’hars, at Kwi, zillah 
Rawul Pindi. The work was compiled by order of Major James 
Abbott, Deputy Commissioner of Hazara, and as Major Pearse was 
an Assistant Commissioner there for some time, he must have pro- 
cured a copy of it from the Deputy Commissioner. It is perfectly 
worthless.” 
