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girl, who was called Mihi, and also Sarw. Having no children, she adopted 
a son of her co-wife Matu, and called him Sarwani. By reason of this 
adoption he came to be called Kaghzai. 
The word Bangash originally meant the hill country. But in course 
of time it was applied to the inhabitants, those in the upper hills being 
called Bala Bangash, those in the country along the foot of those hills, that 
is, in Kohat, were known as the Pain Bangash. At present the Bangash tribe 
is most numerous in Kohat, the rest dwell to the west of it, in Kuram and 
Shaluzam. The valley of the Bangash is encircled by hills, and its greatest 
length is from east to west. To the east and south-east is found the 
Khatak tribe in the hills of Khatkan ; to the north are the Urakzais ; to 
the south-west is the boundary of the Waziris ; to the west is the country 
of Kuram. The Bangash who live in Kuram and Paiwar are in subjection 
to the Tori; those in Shaluzam are their own masters ; while those in 
Kohat are British subjects. In all they number about eighteen thousand 
households. # 
Years after the first settlement took place, many of the Sarwanis quitted 
the Bala Bangash, and from that time were designated Kaghzai, those who 
stayed in their original seat continuing to be called Sarwani. After this 
a party of Karlani, who had settled near the Sarwani Kaghzai in the Bala 
Bangash, also began to be called Kaghzai, though in truth they are neither 
Sarwani nor the children of Kagh. In short, there are two kinds of Kagh¬ 
zai, (1) Karlani Kaghzai and (2) Sarwani Kaghzai. 
In the reign of ’Alamgir Aurangzeb (1658—1707), Malak ’Ain Khan 
Karlani Kaghzai, quitting his native country for Hindustan, came to Mau- 
Rashidabad, where he took service in the troop of ’Ain Khan Sarwani, then 
in the employ of the Khanzadah family. Malak ’Ain Khan, son of Gohar 
Khan, son of Sabza Khan, son of Jahan Khan, son of Sarang Khan, be¬ 
longed to the Harya Khail, in it to the Shamilzai, and in it to the Daulat 
Khail, who are the descendants of Daulat Khan, known as Haji Bahadur. 
This latter must be distinguished from the other Haji Bahadur, the Kohati, 
of the family of Shekh Adam Banuri. 
The town of Mau-Bashidabad is now little more than a name ; its site 
has been turned into one vast tobacco-field. It lies close to the high bank, 
which overlooks the old bed of the Ganges and the stretch of lower land be¬ 
tween it and the present stream. It is situated twenty-one miles west of 
Farrukhabad, five miles west of the old town of Shamshabad-Khor, and about 
one mile north-east of the modern but more thriving town of Kaim- 
ganj. Though Mau has now only a few inhabitants, the country surrounding 
it is full of flourishing Pathan colonies, such as Itaepur, Pathaura, 
’Ataipur ; and the inhabitants of these places are all known outside the 
* Haiyat-i-Afghani, p. 448. 
