The Ethnology of the British Colonies and DependenciesLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
However, to proceed to instances, the following groups of Afghans may be
constituted.
1. Three sections--the _Acco-zye_, the _Mulle-zye_, and the
_Lawe-zye_--are subdivisions of the--
2. _Eusof._--The Eusof and _Munder_ being branches of the--
3. _Eusof-zye._--Now the _Eusof-zye_ is one out of four divisions of
the--
4. _Khukkhi._--The _Guggiani_, _Turcolani_, and _Mahomed-zye_, being the
other three.
5. Lastly, the _Khukkhi_, the _Otman-khail_, the _Khyberi_, the
_Bungush_, the _Khuttuk_ and, probably, some others form the _Berdurani_
Afghans.
But as _Berdurani_ is a geographical, or political, rather than a
tribual designation; as it is the name by which the _north_-eastern
Afghans were known to the Moghuls; and as it is equivalent to such an
expression as _Western_ or _Eastern Highlander_, rather than to names so
specific as _Campbell_ or _MacDonald_, it may be excluded from the true
Afghan affiliations.
With this deduction, however, the classification is sufficiently
complex; besides which, it is, probably, much more systematic on paper
than in reality. This, however, can only be indicated.
The valley of Peshawar is the valley of the _Guggiani_, and
_Mahomed-zye_ Afghans.
The parts round it belong to the _Eusof-zye_, the _Otman-khail_, the
_Turcolani_, the _Momunds_, and the _Khyberi_ of the Khyber Range and
Pass. These last fall into the _Afridi_, the _Shainwari_, and the
_Uruk-zye_. Their country is chiefly to the north of the Salt Range.
The river Kúrúm gives us the two valleys of Dowr and Bunnú[50]--the
_Bunnúchi_ being as pre-eminently a mixed, as the mountaineers around
them--the _Vizeri_--are a pure branch. These, and others, appear to
belong to the great _Khuttuk_ division.
The _south_-eastern Afghans are called _Lohani_; and, as a proof of this
designation being of the same geographico-political character as
_Berdurani_, the Khuttuk Afghans are divided between the two sections;
at least the particular Khuttuks called _Murwuti_ are mentioned as
Lohani, though the Khuttuk class in general is placed in the Berdurani
branch. The chief Lohani Afghans are the _Shiráni_ near the
Tukt-i-Solimán mountain, and the _Storiáni_ (_Storeeanees_,
_Oosteraunees_) conterminous with the most northern of the Bilúch.
Of these the Búgti and Murri are the chief populations of the frontier;
whilst the _Nútkani_, _Kúsrani_, _Lund_, _Lughari_, _Gurkhari_,
_Mudari_, and others, help to fill up the Muckelwand (or the parts
immediately along the course of the Indus), and the Bilúch portions of
Múltan.
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