Jadran

Jadran (जद्रान) Jadran (जादरान) is a gotra of Jats. Jadran clan is found in Afghanistan. Jadran (जद्रान ), Jandran (जन्द्रान), one of the sections of the Bala or Upper Bangash tribe of the Mangali Pathins settled in Kurram, on the borders of Khost. It is a variant of Gadari.

Origin

The ancient Gadrosai are represented in their native country by the Gadari of Las, and it is this name in the plural form of Gadaran which is the source of our Jadran.

History

H. W. Bellew writes that adjoining the Mangal are the Jadran. The Jadran are reckoned at ten thousand families and inhabit the forest-covered hills of the Suleman range between Khost and Zurmat; their principal section, named Akhtun, occupies the Shamal district on the western border of Khost. The Jadran are not reckoned Afghan at all, and are an entirely free people ; in their own country they live by agriculture chiefly. In winter many of the tribe come down to British territory as day labourers,and are there considered a quiet, inoffensive, and industrious people, and clever at spade work and well sinking. In their own country they are hemmed in by other tribes on all sides, and thus cut off from free communication with the rest of the country ; on the east they have the Khostwal, on the west the Gurbuz, on the south the Ghilzi, and on the north the Mangal.

The Jadran probably represent the ancient Gadrosai of the Greeks, and appear to have been forced up into their isolated position in the time of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, who, it is supposed, transplanted them to this place when he invaded the Kalat and Las provinces of Balochistan, and replaced them there by the Jhalawan tribe. The ancient Gadrosai are represented in their native country by the Gadari of Las, and it is this name in the plural form of Gadaran which is the source of our Jadran. clan is found in Afghanistan.

H W bellew writes that Chaghatai Turk clans of Mangal, Jaji, Jadran, Khitai, &c, who are settled about the Pewar and the head waters of the Kurram river, and who were brought to these situations on the invasions of Changhiz and Tymur the Tatar scourges of the world during the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. These clans, with the exception of the Jadran, though they have almost entirely lost the typical physiognomy of their race, their mother-tongue, and, indeed, everything else but their names, which would connect them with their original stock, nevertheless hold themselves entirely distinct political relations always excepted from the Ghilji, who are their neighbours. The study of the history and origin of these obscure clans is a very important one, and interesting as well on its own merits, as yet it has hardly been even thought of.

H. W. Bellew writes that Next to the Jadran on the east are the Khostwal and Dawari.

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