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tribe, is unfortunately ambiguous as well as fanciful, and is inter¬ 
preted by some as a blessing, by others as a curse. As the d in 
Gandapur is cerebral, the name does not seem to be connected with 
the Persian word 1 ganda,’ in which the /is dental. Gandapur had 
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four sons and one daughter, Ya’qub, ’Imran, Husain, Brahim and 
Bibi Khubf. These have given their names to five of the Ganda¬ 
pur sub-divisions,—‘ nalahs’ as they are called. The sixth nalah 
known as the Dreplara, a Pushtu word, meaning 1 offspring of three 
fathers,’ has been formed by the union of three miscellaneous 
tribes not originally Gandapurs, viz., the Shakhai, Marera, and 
Umara. The Gandapurs were driven out of Khurasan by a league 
of the Lahuns and Kakars, but their first permanent settlement in 
the plains seems to have been on the occasion above referred to, 
when there was a general crusade against Lodi and Suri Pathans. 
Their first station was at Poliri, (Boree) probably as dependents 
or allies of the Daulat Khel. For years after this, the Gandapurs 
retained their commercial and nomadic character, being in fact 
Pawindahs, as some of them are still; but gradually they extend¬ 
ed their cultivation on the banks of two mountain torrents, the 
Luni and the Takwarah, till they lost their migratory habits. When 
Ahmad Khan Durrani invaded India, Haji Attal Khan, nephew of 
the ‘ Chilwashti,’ or leader, of the Gandapur tribe, accompanied 
him with a troop of followers, and these Gandapurs distinguished 
themselves by their valour at the great battle of Panlpat, A. D. 
1760. The Gandapurs are in some respects a very fine race. They 
are men of powerful physique, and of great bravery, but are quar¬ 
relsome and litigious beyond all bounds. For some years the tribe 
has been divided into two great factions, headed by two cousins, 
Guldad Khan and Kalu Khan. The tendency to rivalry and enmity 
between cousins is almost proverbial among Pathans. The land 
tenure of the Gandapurs is so peculiar, that it deserves passing 
mention even here, while its intricacies would afford material for a 
voluminous revenue report. Each of the six nalahs, or divisions of 
the tribe, holds 6000 imaginary shares called ‘ daddis,’ making a 
total of 36,000 ‘ daddis’ for the whole land of the tribe. In each 
village there is land held by each of the nalahs, either by each one 
separately, or by two or more nalahs jointly, or by the whole 
