28o 



XXII. 



Zaemtikhts 



XXIII. 

 Dawaris ... 



XXIV. 

 Khostn als 



Mangals 



XXVI. 

 Jadrans 1 ... . 



XXVII. 



Ushtaranas 



XXVIII. 

 Esots 



Jafars 



NATURE 



Table of Afghan and Pathan Tribes (Continued). 



\_Jan. 2 2, I < 



Gundi ; AH ; Mula ; Mastu ; 

 Firoz ; Maru 



Maidan ; Panni ; Isteah ; Al- 

 i ; Ada ; Lehwanni ; 

 Ali ; Ahmed ; Eian, 

 Shamn 



i. Khwaidad: — Babakar, Hasn 

 2. Mohamad: — Wati, Manatu, : 

 Mandan 



1. Tapij— Haidar, Idak 



2. Malui : — Parpa, Ainzani 



Ishmail ; Matiin ; Mandu ; 

 Shamal 



Lajhwar : — Fattakeh, Agar, 

 Andaz, Mind, Khajuri, 

 Zab 



.'. — Shah", Musa, 

 Ako, Shamo 

 2. Ahmad : — Ibrahim, Kadr, | 

 Mashar 



1. Nok : — Ahmad, Zado, Ja- 



han, Chado 



2. Mula: — Ado, Khidr, Tain- 



da, Khadi 



Ramdani ; Mohra : Rajali ; 

 Kav 



Geographical Positi< 



Kuram valley. (See Note under XXI.) 



Kuram valley, mostly about River Ariab and from 



the Shntar Gardan to the Faiwar Pass. 



Note. — XX. and XXI. are not regarded as true 



Pathans, being traditionally sprung of two 



Mughal brothers, Tor and Jaji. Edwardes 



i-ays they are Khatar Hindkis from Rawalpindi. 



Tn the hills between Miranzae and Kuram. 



Pawari valley, 32" 57-33° 7' N. lat. 



Upper Khost valley, adjoining Kuram and 

 Zurmat. 



On Lajlii river, Kuram valley, and parts of 

 Zurmat ; are supposed to be of Mughal 

 descent. 



Ea-t of Zurmat, E. side of Suleiman Mts. 



The hills opposite extreme S. part Pera Ishmail 

 di-trict. Are disowned by the Afghans, though 

 apparently of Lohani (Povindah) stock. 



The hills west of Pera Ishmail Khan. Are said 

 to be of Kakar origin, though now distinct ; 

 Troglodytes. 



Between the Bi'ij spur of the Suleiman Mts. and 

 the Bozdar Biloches. 



12,000 

 25,000 

 15,000 



8, coo 

 5,000 



Of the main sections in this table, Nos. I. to XII. inclu- 

 sive are recognised as true Afghans, and of these, Nos. I, 

 and III. (Duranisand Ghilzaes) are by far the most impor- 

 tant and influential. Since the time of Nadir Shah, the 

 Durants have been the ruling tribe, the Popalzae division 

 till 1 81 8, the Barakzae from that year to the present 

 time. They were formerly called the Abdali or Avdali, 

 a name which has been traced to the Ephthalites and 

 Abdela of the Byzantine writers of the sixth century. But 

 it was changed to Durani from the title of Durri-Duran, 

 " Pearl of the Age," assumed by the Sardar Ahmad Khan. 

 of the Saddozae branch of the Popalzaes, when he 

 usurped the supreme power at Kandahar on the death 

 of Nadir Shah in 1747. The seat of government was 

 removed from Kandahar to Kabul by his successor. 

 Taimun Shah (ob. 1793). and this dynasty became ex- 

 tinct in 1S1S, when it was succeeded by the Barokzaes 

 in Kabul, though various descendants of Ahmad Khan 

 continued and still continue to assert their claims to the 

 sovereignty in Herat. 



Although mentioned in the national genealogies, the 

 right of the Ghilzaes to be considered as Pukhtuns at all, 

 much less genuine Afghans, has been questioned. There 

 certainly seems to be a flaw in their escutcheon, and they 

 themselves, who always call themselves Ghilji, and not 



1 I have not yet succeeded in obtaining the subdivisions of this section, 

 and will feel obliged if any reader of Nature will kindly communicate them, 



together with any other 



ectifications that may occur to him. 



Ghil-zac, claim Turki descent. The national tradition is 

 that they entered the country in the tenth century under 

 a certain Sabaktakin, of the Kilich Turki tribe "anciently 

 situated on the upper course of the Yaxartes" 1 (Syr 

 Darya). But, however this be, they are now entirely assimi- 

 lated in habits, dress, religion, and speech, to the other 

 Afghan tribes, with the exception of a few who are still 

 nomads. 



None of the other sections call for special remark 

 except the Povindahs, who are at once agriculturists, 

 traders, and warriors, their armed caravans yearly fighting 

 their way through the intervening hostile tribes down to 

 the markets of the Panjab and Sindh. The name is 

 supposed to derive from the Persian Parwinda, a bale of 

 goods, and seems to be indifferently applied to the 

 Lohanis, Waziris, Kakars, Ghilzaes, or any other tribe 

 temporarily or permanently forming part of this singular 

 "trades' union." By far the most important section are 

 the Lohanis, the oldest and most numerous members of 

 the association, and one of the most promising elements 

 for the future pacific settlement and material prospects of 

 the country. 



Physically the Afghans may be described as, on the 

 whole, a fine race. Their features, though often coarse 

 and ugly, are regular in the European sense of the term, 

 with the occasional Jewish cast above remarked uponv 



* H. W. Bellew, " -Afghanistan and the Aghans," 1879. 



