1845.] Account of the Cabool and Peshawar Territories, %c. 669 



Pergunnah 3rd — The Duabah 25,000 houses in 5 villages, contain- 

 ing 70,000 Jarebs, under Arbah Abdulla Khan, Gagynnte Mandezai 

 Khaleel and Arbab Hamza Khan and Arbab Sikandar Khan, paying 

 a revenue of 1,50,000. 



Pergunnah 4th.— Hashtnagur, 22 villages, 25,000 houses, 40,000 

 Jarebs, under Izzat Khan and Shahnawaz Khan Malmandzai, paying 

 a revenue of 90,000 rupees. 



Pergunnah 5th. — Daoodzais, 70,000 Jarebs, 20,000 houses, under 

 Arbab Saadut Khan and Shahpasand Khan and Ahmad Khan ; reve- 

 nue 1,03,000 rupees. 



Pergunnah 6th. — Shahee Mahal round the town, is applied to the 

 cultivation in the old royal gardens ; the Kasbah of Bagram contains 

 40,000 Jarebs, and pays a revenue of 50,000 rupees. 



Pergunnah 7th. — The Khataks, revenue 1,50,000, under son of 

 Abbas Khan and Ameer Khan, 70,000 houses in 67 villages. 



There is a Tappah also, called Khalsah, that the kings of old did 

 not include in their revenue, but set apart for their household expenses. 

 The Barakzais collect, it is said, 56,000 rupees from it. 



There is also the Sayer of Peshawar, called kacheree, which produces 

 1,25,000 ; another Pergunnah of Peshawar is the Eesafzais to the 

 North, 130 villages and 2,25,000 Jarebs. 



This tribe inhabiting Swat, Bunher, and Sama are estimated, or 

 rather were, at 9,00,000 spearsmen and matchlock men. I have heard 

 from old and respectable and well informed men of this tribe in 

 Bunher, that Ameer Khan, their progenitor, had one son, Eesaf, who 

 again had three sons and one daughter, Mandad, Malee, and Ako, 

 and that the Malezais and Mandadzais inhabit Bunher, and the 

 Akozais Swat, and the Tarkareen, called after the daughter of that 

 name, inhabit Bajour. 



That the Mandad and Razad clans of Mandezais inhabit the Sama 

 (level) and have 69 villages, and musters 2,28,000 matchlock men, 

 horse and foot, (2,09,000 foot, 19,000 horse,) and have 1,92,000 Jarebs 

 of land. Should a powerful Government ever arise, 14,00,000 rupees 

 might be collected. 



The Malezais and Mandzais are in Bunher, having 70 villages and 

 1,00,000 matchlock men. It lies north of Sama, (93,000 foot, 7,000 

 horse.) They have 50,000 Jarebs of land. 



