Dudial

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Dudial is a sub-division of Kalgan clan, comprise 43 sub-division, found in Awans in Pakistan.

History

H.A. Rose[1] writes that The Awans (अवान) are an important tribe, exclusively Muhammadan, chiefly found in the Salt Range, where they possess an Awankari, but also widely spread to the east, south and west of that tract. Extending along the whole length of the Range from Jhelum to the Indus, they are found in great numbers throughout the whole country beyond it up to tho foot, of the Sulemans and the Safed Koh1 ; though in trans-Indus Bannu they partly, and in Dera Ismail Khan wholly, merge in the Jats.

According to one tradition the Awans, who claim Arab origin, are descendants of Qutb Shah, himself descended from Ali, and were attached to the Muhammadan armies which invaded India as 'auxiliaries,' whence their name. In Kapurthala a more precise version of their legend makes them Alwi Sayyids, who oppressed by the Abba sides, sought refuge in Sindh ; and eventually allied themselves with Sabuktagin, who bestowed on them the title of Awan. But in the best available account of the tribe the Awans are indeed said to be of Arabian origin and descendants of Qutb Shah, but he is said to have ruled Herat and to have joined Mahmud of Ghazni when he invaded India.

With him came six of his many sons :

  1. Gauhar Shah or Gorrara, who settled near Sakesar;
  2. Kalan Shah or Kalgan who settled at Dhankot (Kalabagh) :
  3. Chauhan who colonised the hills near the Indus :
  4. Khokhar or Muhammad Shah who settled on the Chenab:
  5. Tori and Jhajh whose descendants are said to be still found in Tirah and elsewhere.

The originally Hindu character of these names is patent, and not explained away by the tradition that Chauhan and Khokhar took their mother's name.

In Gujrat tradition gives Qutb Shah three wives, from whom sprang the Khokhars and the four muhins or clans of the Awans. By Barth, his first wife, he had a son named Khokhar : by Sahd, he had Khurara (खुराड़ा) or Gurara (गुराड़ा): and by Fateh Khatun, three sous — Kalgan, Chauhan and Kundan.

These four clans are again divided into numerous septs, often bearing eponymous names, hut sometimes the names of Gujar, Jat and other tribal septs appear.

Thus in Sialkot, the Awans are said to be divided into 24 muhins.

But in Gujrat the Khurara clan comprises 21 sub-divisions, including such names as Jalap and Bhakri :

the Kalgan comprise 43 sub-divisions, including Dudial, Andar, Papin and others : the Chauhans have three septs, Ludain, Bhusin and Ghuttar : and the Kundan Chechi, Mahr, Malka, Mayan, Puchal and Saroia. Few of these look like Muhammadan patronymics.

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