20 The District of Dera Ismail Khan, Trans-Indus. [No. 1, 
pendent territory. Their settlement in the Daman only dates from 
a hundred years back. They have always borne a good character 
as brave and honest men, but have generally been at feud with 
some of the Baloch tribes to the south. At the time of annexation, 
they were at feud with the Kasranis. At present they are in league 
with the Kasranis against the Bozdars. 
Southernmost of all the Pathan tribes, come the Khatrans, of 
whom a colony live at the town of Yahowah in the extreme south¬ 
west corner of the Dera Ismail Khan district. All the tribes of the 
Dera Ghazi frontier are Baloch, and there is one Baloch tribe inter¬ 
mixed with the Khatrans whose chieftain resides in the Dera Ismail 
district. This is the Kasranl tribe, and the chieftain is a son of 
Kaura Khan, who distinguished himself three years ago by carry¬ 
ing off the Deputy Commissioner. 
One more Pathan tribe remains to be noticed, the Khissors—who 
occupy the belt of land lying between the Kafir Kot or Khissor 
range, and the Indus. Besides these, there are numerous families 
of influential Afghans resident at Dera itself. 
Taking the agricultural population remote from the frontier 
tribes, we find it composed chiefly of Baloches and Jats. Among 
the former are the sub-divisions Kurai, Hot, Laglnirl, Gishkorl, 
Kulachi, Kind, Girsar, and Chandia, in the neighbourhood of the 
Saddar, while Nutkanis, Laskanls, Gurmanls, and Mallanas, are 
predominant in the south. Among Jats are the sub-divisions Sabi, 
Wail, Saggu, Khar, Mapal, Husam, Kanjan Kalera, and many 
others. There is a curious ambiguity in the local use of the word 
4 Jat.’ Sometimes it is applied to an agricultural caste, and 
thence extended to zamindars generally, as is the case all over the 
Panjab. Sometimes also it means a camel driver as distinguished 
from a zamindar. But the name certainly indicates a tribal dis¬ 
tinction here as elsewhere, though the Jats of this neighbourhood 
are a confused race, in every respect inferior not only to the noble 
Sikh population of the north-east Panjab, but also to the Muhamma¬ 
dan Jats of the central Duabs. Jats are very numerous in Afghan¬ 
istan, and the supposition that they entered India from the south¬ 
ern passes of the Sulaiman range is much more probable than the 
theory which introduces them from the countries beyond Kashmir. 
