18 The District of Dera Ismail Khan , Trans-Indus. [No. 1, 
Tlie present Nawab belongs to a family known as theKhattf Khel, 
who first came into notice about seventy years ago, when one Kat- 
tal Khan attempted to establish his authority over the tribe, but 
lost his life in the attempt. Kattal Khan left a son Sarwar Khan, 
who a few years later avenged his father’s death, and obtained 
supreme power over the tribe. Sarwar Khan was a chieftain of un¬ 
usual ability, and his name is still a household word in Tank. He 
rebuilt and fortified Tank, raised the large fort of Dabbra beyond 
it, extended irrigation, and by attracting cultivators converted his 
territory into a fertile and verdant garden. He died in 1892, Vik., 
and was succeeded by his son Allahdad Khan, a man of much in¬ 
ferior character, who finding himself unable to pay the revenue 
demanded by the Sikhs, fled to the Mas’ud hills. For some years 
after this, Tank was the scene of struggles between the exiled Al¬ 
lahdad Klian, and three Patlian chieftains, to whom the Sikhs had 
leased the government, and again between these and Fath Khan 
Tiwanah. Eventually both Fath Khan Tiwanah and Shah Na¬ 
waz Khan, son and heir of Allahdad Khan, were driven into exile, 
from which they did not return till the British occupied the coun¬ 
try. Then, through the influence of the late Sir Herbert Edwardes, 
Shah Nawaz Khan was restored to the government of Tank, which 
he still holds. As he is connected with the Mas’dds both by birth 
and marriage, his political importance is considerable. There are 
many very romantic incidents in the history of this Khatti Khel 
family, but our space does not admit of their repetition. There is 
another very small tribe in the Tank ’alaqa, that of the Taturs. 
South of Tank, lies the territory of a larger Patlian tribe, the 
Gandapurs. Their origin as claimed by themselves, is more pre¬ 
tentious than that attributed to them by their rivals. Not content 
with their dignity as Afghans, they must needs claim to be Sayyids, 
and profess a descent from Mfr Sayyid Muhammad Gesu-Haraz. 
The story of this saint and his three wives is given in Bellew’s 
Afghanistan, page 64. By his Kakar wife, he had a son named 
Saturi, who in his turn was the father of Tarai. Tarai eloped with 
a Shirani maiden, and in consequence of this adventure had to leave 
his father’s home. As he was leaving, his father gave him the 
name Gandapur. The etymology thus invented for the name of the 
