The Races of Afghanistan/Index
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Being a brief account of the principal nations inhabiting that country.
By: H. W. Bellew, C.S.I.
Publisher: Thacker Spink And Co. Calcutta.1880.A
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Abdali tribe, now known by name of Durrani ... 20
--, chief, Ahmed Shah, raised to throne ... 30
--, Abdur Rashid, name given to Kish by Muhammad 16
Achakzai division, Durrani tribe ... 20
Afghan people, the ... 13
--, traditions of, connected with children of Israel ... 15
--, "Bani Israel" ... 15,25
--, advance into Kandahar ... 17
--, character ... 20
-, similarity with Rajput ... 23
--, army, strength of, under Sher Ali ... 50
--, feeling towards British ... 54, 55
Afghans, descendants of Saraban ... 19
--, same as Solymi of the ancients ... 24
--, how styled by Mahometans of Asia Minor ... 24
--, known in the East as Pathans ... 24
--, admit they are Pathans ... 25
--, their number ... 26
--, revolt against Persians ... 28
--, ejected by Nadir ... 29
--, enlisted under Nadir .. 29
--, enumeration by Nadir ... 30
--, effect of disaster of British ... 40
--, not fit to rule over others... 53
--, subjugation recommended ... 53
Afghanistan, boundaries of ... 12
--, nationalities composing inhabitants... 13
--, division of country, last century ... 28
--, as known to the Greeks ... 58, 59
Afridi identified with Aparytae of Herodotus ... 77
--, country of , defined ... 77
--, included with Turklanri people ... 77
--, territory now held by ... 80
Afridi encroached upon by Turk establish tribe ... 79
--, Khattak tribes establish themselves ... 80
--, factions of ... 81
--, religion and character of ... 82
--, origin of name ... 83
--, troublesome to British ... 84
Afzul opposes Sher Ali... 47
--, released by Abdurrahman, proclaimed Amir ... 48
Agha Muhammad Khan succeeds to throne of Persia ... 33
--, seizes Khurasan ... 33
Ahmad Khan, chief of Saddozai tribe ... 30
--, bought over chiefs of Afghanistan and Balochistan ... 30
--, crowned king ... 30
--, took Kabul from Persians ... 31
--, invaded India ... 31
Amim Khan opposes Sher All at Kandahar ... 47
Amir, title first adopted by Dost Muhammad ... 37
Amirs from Barakzai clan ... 20
Andar clan sprung from Buran ... 100
--, identified with the Afridi ... 58, 77
Ariana of the Greeks ... 59
Arya Vartha of the Persians .. 59
Arsareth of the prophet Esdras identified with Hazarah ... 14, 15
Asadulla Khan became ruler of Herat ... 29
Azim opposes Sher All ... 47
--, succeeds Afzul as Shah ... 48
--, defeated by Sher Ali ... 49
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Bactria of the Greeks ... 59
Badakshan secured to Sher Ali... 49
Badakhshi, Hill Tajiks ... 1ll
Bagram, an ancient City near Peshawar ... 65
Bahlika of the Hindus ... 59
Bakhtar of the Persians ... 59
Bakhtar nearly the same as Balur or Bolar ... 59
Bangash kindred with Afridi ... 77
--, emigrated into Hindustan... 79
--, settled in Zurmat ... 79
--, possession of Miranzai and Kurram ...79
--, driven out of the Kurram ... 87
Bani Israel people supposed to have settled in Ghor ... 15
Banuchi included with Khattaks ...87
Barakzai division of Durrani tribe... 20
--, chief a came into power ... 36
--, entertains Shah Husen ... 98
Batur, a variant form of Bakhtar ... 59
Bayat clans, ... 102
Bihsud clan of the Hazarah ..114
British dealings with Afghanistan, first ... 35
--, embassy under Burnes ... 39
--, take up cause of Shuja ... 40
--, take Kandahar and Ghazni]] ... 41
--, occupation openly disliked ... 42
-, policy of Dost Muhammad towards ... 45
--, protection sought and obtained by Sher Ali ... 49
--, second advance into Afghanistan ... 51
--, treaty with Yacub Khan, 52, 53
--, envoy massacred ... 53
Budhist remains in Jalalabad valley ... 65, 72
Bulac division of Khattak tribes ...87
Buran, son of Bibi Matto ... 100
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Cajar dynasty, foundation of ... 33
Capchac, nomade Tymans ... 93
Carlugh clans ... 102
Catti (now Katti) tribes ... 21
Chaghatai Turks ... 102
Chakmani, Chamkani ... 85,86,96
Charaymac, a Tatar tribe ... 115
Chung clans ... 102
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Dadi tribe ... 90
--, probably the Dadi of the Kakar country ... 58
--, modern identifications ...90
Dahae of Greek writers ... 111
Dahi Kundi, Hazarah clan ... 114
--, Zangi, Hazarah clan ... 114
Dalazak tribes in Peshawar valley ... 65
--, expelled by the Yusufzai .. 67
--, deported by Jehangir ... 68
Dangarzai, foreign settlers ... 87
Dani ... 92
Darada tribe ... 90
Dard tribe ... 90
Darsi, settled Tymans ... 93
Dihgan communities of the Tajik ... 1ll
Dihwar communities of the Tajik ... 1ll
Dost Muhammad Khan drove Mahmud from the throne ... 36
--, independent chief at Kabul ... 36
--, adopted title of Amir . . 38
--, limit of authority ... 38
--, helped to drive Shuja from Kandahar ... 38
--, defeated Sikhs at Jamrud ... 39
--, communicates with Russia ... 39
--, flight on arrival of British army ... 41
--, tenders submission to British ... 42
--, restored ... 43
--, extent of authority ... 44
--, makes treaty with British Government ... 44
--, policy towards British ... 45
--, takes Herat, where he died in 1863 ... 45
Durrani dynasty ... 20
--, divisions of tribe ... 20
--, Empire at death of Tymur ... 33
--, Empire ended ...36
--, rule under Barakzai ... 37
--, Empire, collapse of ... 53
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Elphinstone's embassy to Shujaul-Mulk ... 34
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Fath Khan, son of Payanda, sided with Mahmud at Herat ... 34, 35
--, defeated Ghilzais ... 34
--, re-established Mahmud ... 35
--, sent to drive Persians from Herat ... 36
--, murdered ...36
Fu ozkohi, a Tatar tribe ... 115
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Gandamak Treaty, the 52, 53
Gandaru of the Greek authors ... 23, 58
--, identified with modern Yusufzai ... 58
--, country of , defined ... 60
--, Budhist by religion ... 61
--, migrated westward ... 61
--, gradually incorporated with Afghans ... 63
--, returned eastward to the Indus ... 63
--, driven out by Mahmands... 69
--, unconverted portion known as Kafirs ... 70
Gandarii converts very bigoted 70
--, divide into two sects, Safi and Gandhari ... 70
Gandhar, now Kandahar ... 23
--, wasted by Mahmud of Ghazni ... 73
Gar, a faction of Afndi tribes ... 81
Gliljai, Ghilzai, habitats of tribe... 97
--, descended from Batan, son of Kish .. 97
--, origin of name ... 99
---, Lodi and Sur kings of house of Ghor... 99
--, certain Turk tribes 100
--, absorption of weak tribes ... 101
--, first noticed under Mahmud... 103
--, social life of ... 103
--, revolt against Persians ... 105
--, bought over by Ahmed Shah .. 108
--,power finally crushed... 108
--,conduct towards the British 108
Ghilzais ...13
--, impatient of Persian rule 28
--, ejected by Nadir ..29
--, rose to contest government of Mahmud ... 34
--, rose against the British ..43
Ghor Afghans emigrated into ...15
Ghorband, emigration of the Khushgi Zamands to ...19
Ghori clan sprung from Kand ..19
Ghuighusht, son of Kais ... 19
--,tribe ... 77, 91
Ghazni taken by British ... 41
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Halakozai division of Durrani tribe ... 20
Hazarah tribe ... 13, 50
--, habitat of tribe ... 113
--, conquered by Changhiz Khan ... 113
--, belong to the Tatar division... 114
--, have no name for their people ... 114
--, may be the Arsareth of Esdias ... 114
--, disposition ... 116
Herat under Persian rule ... 28
--, Afghans revolted ... 29
--, taken by Persians in 1816.. 36
--, under Kamran ... 36
--, Persian attempts to regain ... 38, 39
--, Russian influence against... 39
--, defence by Pottenger .. 39
--, evacuated by the Persians, 1858 ... 44
--, made over to Sultan Khan... 44
Herat taken by Dost Muhammad... 45
--, left in charge of Yacub ... 47
Hindki converts to Muhammadanism ... 67
Hotak Turk clans ... 100
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Ishaczai division of Durrani tribe... 20
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Jadran clans ... 102
Jaghuri clans of the Hazarahs... 114
Jaji tribes of Afridi ... 81, 102
Jalalabad valley, old name Nangrahar ... 64
Jalozai, foreign settlers .. 87
Jamshedi, a Tatar tribe .. 115
Jat tribe, now known by Gujar... 21
--, peasantry of the Punjab .. 65
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Kabul under Dost Muhammad ... 37
--, entered by British troops .. 41
--, taken by Abdai Rahman in 1866 ... 48
Kafir ... 13
Kais, the leader of the Afghan party that joined Muhammad ... 16
Kakar people, origin of ... 91
--, grandson of Ghurghusht ... 9 1
--, absorbs Dadi ... 92
--, claim kinship with Gadun... 92
--, country on Indus . . 93
--, employment of . . . . 93
Kand clan sprung from Khrishyun ... 19
---, division of ... 19
Kandahar province, seat of Durrani tribe .. 20
--, under Mughal rule ... 28
--, Persians driven from ... 28
--, taken by Nadir Shah ... 29
--, under Sherdil . . 37
--, built by Gandari ... 61
Kansi clan sprung from Khrishyun ... 19
--, emigrated to Hindustan and the Dekhan... 20
Kararai name of Turklanri tribe... 78
--, origin of . .78
Katti not a distinct people ... 22
--, once professed Budhist religion ... 22
Khagwani division of Durrani tribe ... 20
Khakhi clan sprung from Kand... 10
Khalid-bin-Walid brought invitation, to Afghans to join the Prophet's standard 15, 24
Khattak tribes in conflict with the Yusufzai ... 75
--, possession of Jamalghari... 76
--, possessions of ... 80
--, Sattagydae of Herodotus ... 86
Khattak, original seat ... 85
--, driven out of the plains by Wziris ...85
--, worked their way to the Indus ... 87
--, pressed aside the Bangash, Orakzai, and Afridi ... 87
--, Bulac and Teri divisions ... 87
--, loyal subjects of the British ... 88
--, origin of name ... 88
Kharoti clans ... 103, 105
Khel, use of the word ...111
Khital clans ...102
Khojandi, immigrant colony ...92
Khostwals at base of Sufed Koh ...80
Khishhyun, son of Saraban, clans sprung from .. 19, 91
Khushgi, a clan of the Zamands emigrated to the Gharband ... 19
--, accompanied Baber to India ... 19
--, settled at Kasur and in Peshawar valley ... 19
Khushkari, present style Khushgi clan settled Ghorband and Kohistan ...20
Khurasan, country of Afghans ...28,59
Khwaja Muhammad Khan ... 89
Kizilbash, soldiers of Nadir Shah lett at Kabul ... 107
--, distinct element in present population ... 107
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Lawani clans ... 108
Lodi, origin of name ... 99
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Mahmand tribes ... 63
--, conquests of ...69
Mahmud, Governor of Herat ... 33
--, seized Kandahar ... 34
--, Kabul ... 34
--, Peshawar . . IU
--, defeated by Shuja-ul-Mulk ... 34
--, restored ... 35
--, imprisoned Fath Khan ... 86
--, driven from throne by Dost Muhammad ... 36
Mahmud, son of Mir Vais, overran southern Persia ... 106
--, assassinated ... 106
Mahmud of Ghazni, conquests of ... 73
Malik, title bestowed by Muhammad on Afghan chiefs... 16
Malli division of Yusufzai tribes... 69
Mandanr clans ... 19
Mandas division of Yasufzai tribes ... 69
--, tribes ... 68
Mangal clans 102
Mir Vais deputed by Ghilji to visit Shah of Persia... 105
--, became ruler of Kandahar...105
Mughal rule in Kandahar 28
Mughalkai foreign settlers... 87
Muhammadanisn, the Afghans converted to ...15
Mulla Mushki Alam, priest of Ghazni... 71
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Nadir elected Ghilzais and Afghans ... 29, 107
--, took Kandahar... 29
--, advanced to Kabul and North India ... 29, 107
Nadirabad built by Nadir... 29
--, dismantled by Ahmad...30
Naghar called Baloch by Afghans... 92
Naugrahar, old name of Jalalabad ... 64
--, seat of Budhism ...64
Nasar clans 103, 105
Nai zai division of Durrani tribes... 20
Niazi clans... 103
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Orakzai, kindred with Afridi ... 77
--, emigrated into Hindustan...79
Oriyakhel... 87
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Pactiya of the Greeks (Herodotus) 57, 58, 60
Pactiyan nations identified 58, 91
Pathan ... 13
--, name in the east given to Afghan ... 24
--, not admitted by all Afghans ... 25
--, application of term ...56
--, origin, of term ...56
--, tribes, people calling themselves... 94
--, independence of ...95
--, converted to Islamism ... 95
Payanda Khan, mistaken of Tymur ... 33
--, attempted to place Shuja-ul-Mulk on the throne ...34
Populzai division of Durrani tribes... 20
Povinda clans ... 103,105
Pukhto-speaking peoples ... 19
Pukhtun, origin of term 56, 57
--, is identical with Pactyan of the Greeks ... 57
--, people really Indians ... 60
Pukhtun-khwa known as Roh ...58,60
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Rajput, similarity with Afghan ...23
Ranjit Singh - appointed ruler at Lahore ... 33
Ranjit Sing seized Kashmir and Peshawar ...37
Roh, name of Pukhtun-khwa to outsiders ... 58
Roshani, hill Tajiks ... 111
Russian interference with Herat ...39
-- embassy at Kabul ... 39
-- treaty with Kubudil Khan at Kandahar... 39
-- advances encouraged by Sher Ali ... 50
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Saddozai division of Durrani tribe ... 20
Safi division of Gandhari tribe ... 70
Sartak tribe ... 85
Sajistan, native appellation of Sistan ... 17
Saka, probably same people as "Saka Hanuvarga" (Herodotus) ... 18
Samal, a faction of Afridi tribes ... 81
-- , Afgan Proper, descendants of ... 19,21
-- , adoption of name ... 21, 23
--Sattagyddae of Herodotus ... 58
-- identified with the Khattak ... 58
Sattak tribes ... 85
Shahs from Saddozai clans ... 20
Shariyun, son of Saraban, clans sprung from ... 19, 91
Shattak tribes ... 85
Sher Ali succeeds Dost Muhammad ... 45
-- character ... 46
-- opposed by Afzul and Azim ... 47
-- loses Kabul to Abdurrahman ... 48
-- driven to Kandahar and Herat ... 48
--returns with Fyz Muhammad, but defeated ... 48
--at death of Afzul, sends Yacub to take Kandahar and marches to Kabul , reinstates himself as Amir ...19
--seeks protection of the British Government ... 49
-- which increased his power ... 49
-- returns to old enmity ... 50
-- strength of army ... 50
-- encourages Russians ... 51
-- crowning insult to British ... 51
Shinvari supposed to belong to Kansi clan ... 20
Sheorani clan sprung from Sharjyun ... 19
Shuja-ul-Mulk's attempt to obtain throne ... 34
Shuja-ul-Mulk lost Peshawar and regained it ... 34
--marched against Mahmud ... 34
--met Elphinstone at Peshawar ... 34
-- defeated by Fath Khan ... 35
-- attempted to recover his kingdom ... 38
--fled to Herat ... 38
-- returned to Loodhiana ... 39
--cause taken up by the British ... 40
--crowned Shah at Kandahar ... 41
Sini, foreign settlers ... 87
Sistan, extent and inhabitants of ... 17
--occupied by an Indian people ... 17
--adjudicated to Persia ... 50
Sodha tribe ... 89
Solymi (the) of the ancients ... 24
Suddozai chiefs lost power ...31
Sulemankhel clan 103, 105
Suryabans represented in India by Rajputs ... 21
Swati dispossessed by Yusufzai ... 68
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Tajik ... 13, 56, 109
-- representative of Dadicae... 90
-- representative of ancient Persians ... 109
-- origin of name ... 109
-- name applied to inhabitants of Badakhshan ... 110
--, disposition and customs, 111,112
Taraki clan sprung from Buran ... 100
Tarin tribe ousted Zamands ... 10
--, habitat of ... 63
--specified as Afghans .. 64
Tatar tribes ... 115
Teri division of Khattak tribes ... 87
Tokhi Turk clans ... 100
Toris of the Kurram valley ... 80, 81, 87
Tripartite Treaty, the ... 10
Turan tribes ... 100, l05
Turk clans ... 102
Turklanri division of Ghuigusht tribe ... 77
-- people included in this tribe ... 77
-- known by name of Kararai ... 78
Tymur succeeds Ahmad Shah ... 32
--neglects his country ... 39
Tymani, Tatar tribe ... 93,115
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Ushturani tribes ... 109
Uzbak tribes ... 13
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Warisi division of Sodha tribe ... 80
Wakhi, hill Tajiks ... 111
Wardak tribes ... 109
Waziri identical with Wairsi ... 89
--attack Khattak tribes ... 89
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Yacub Khan succeeds Sher Ali... 52
Yacub Khan, Gandamak Treaty,... 52, 53
--, treachery towards British... 62
--, taken prisoner by the Biitish ... 53
Yar Muhammad at Herat ... 44
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Yusufzai clans ... 19
--, tribes driven out by Tarin tribes settled in the Peshawar valley ... 64
--, conquests by ... 67, 71, 74
--, separation of the Mandar and Malli divisions ... 69
--, prosperity of ... 74
--, conflict with Khattak tribes ... 75
Yusufzai, present condition of tribes ... 76
Zabulistan, southern half of Afghanistan ... 18
Zai, use of the word ... 111
Zaman Shah succeeds Tymur ... 33
--, right to throne contested ... 33
--, cedes Balk to Persians ... 33
--, Punjab revolted ... 33
--, blinded by his son ... 34
Zamand clan sprung from Khrishyun ... 19
--, original settlement ... 19
--, ousted by Tarin tribe 19
Zymnkht tribes of Afridi ... 8
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