History of Niazi Pathans by Denzil ibbetson


In 1877 the number of these traders which passed into the district of Dera Ismail Khan was 76400, of which nearly half war grown men. In the year of the census, the number of was 49392. These Pawindha tribes speak the soft or Western Pashto, and have little connection with the settled tribes of the same stock.
It is not to be wondered at that these War-like tribes cast covetous eyes on the rich plan of the Indus, held as they were by a peaceful Jat population early in the 13th century, about the time of Shahabuddin Ghori, the Parangi and Sur tribe of the Lodhi branch with their Kinsmen the Sarwani, settled in the Northern part of the district immediately under the Suleman, the Parangi and Sur holding the Tank and Rori, while the Sarwani settled south of the Luni in the Daraban and Chandhwan. With them came the Baluch(minor Pushtun tribe), Khasor, and other tribes who occupied the branch of salt range which runs along the right bank of the river, and still hold their original location. In the early part of the 15 century the Niazi another Lodi tribe, follow their kinsmen from Ghazni his into Tank, where they lived quietly as Pawindhas for nearly a century, when they cross the trans-Indus salt-range and settled in the country now held by the Marwat in the south of the Bannu district, then almost uninhabited save by sprinkling of Postal Jats, where Babar mention them as cultivator in 1505.
During the region of the Lodhi and Sur Sultan’s of the Dehli (1450 to 1555), the Parangi and Sur tribes from which these dynasties sprang, and their neighbours the Niazi, seem to have migrated almost bodily from Afghanistan to Hindustan, where the Niazi rose to great power, one of their tribe beings to Subahdar of Lahore. These last waxed insolent and revolted in alliance with the Ghakkhars, and in 1547 Sultan Salim Shah Suri crushed the rebellion, and with it the tribe. At any rate, when in the early days of Akbar’s region the Lohani and other Lodhi tribe who had been expelled by the Salman Khel Ghilzai from their homes in Katawaz in the Ghazni mountains, crossed the Suleman, the Lodhi tribes Were too week to resist them ; and they expelled the remaining Parangi and Sur from Tank, killing many, while the remainder fled into Hindustan. The Lohani are divided into four great tribes, the Marwat, Daulat Khel, Mian Khel & Tator. About the beginning of the 17th century the Daulat Khel quarrelled with the Marwats and Mian Khel and drove them out of Tank. The Marwat moved northwards across the salt range and drove the Niazi eastwards across the Kurram and salt range into Isa Khel on the banks of the Indus, where they found a mixed Awan and Jat population expelled the former, and reduce the latter to servitude. [P-76]
On the the southern border of the Bannu district, marching with Dera Ismail Khan, we find the Marwat and Niazi, the northernmost of the Indian descendants of Baitan, while further north lie the Waziri and Bannuchi of the great Karlani section of Pathans. The Migration of the Niazi from Tank across the salt range, and how the Marwat follow them and drove them across the Kurram, have already been described. Their ancestor Niazi had three sons, Bhai, Jamal, and Khaku, The descendants of the first are no longer distinguish able; while the Isa Khel among the Jamal, and the Mushani and Sarhang clans among the Khaku have overshadowed the other Clans and given their name to the most important existing division of the tribe. The Isa Khel settled in the south and Mushani in the north of the country between the Kohat Salt-range and Indus, while the Sarhang crossed the river and and after struggle lasting nearly a century and a half with their quondam allies the Ghakkhar and their Jat and Awan subjects, finally drove the Ghakkhars, whose strong who strong hold on the Indus was destroyed by Ahmed Shah in 1748, eastwards across the salt range, and established themselves in Mianwali. [P-80]
The latest commers are the Bitanni, who have with in the last 60 years occupied a small tract on the North-eastern border of the Marwat and the foot of the hills. Thus Pathan hold all Trans-Indus Bannu, and as much of the cis-Indus portion of the district as lies north of a line joining the junction of Kurram and Indus with Sakesar, the peak at which the salt range entsrs the district and truns northwards. The trans-Indus Pathans, with the partial exception of the Niazi speak Pashto of the soft and western dialect; The Niazi speak Hindko, especially east of the Indus. [P-81]
A few of the Niazi who remained behind when the main body of the tribe was expelled lived with Marwat. [P-81]
The Niazi hold all the southern portion of Isa Khel and the country between Mianwali and the hills; in other words so much of the Banu district as is contained between the salt range on either side the Indus, and the Kurram and a line drawn from its mouth due east across the Indus. Their history and distribution have been rela’ed in above. They are indifferent cultivators and still retain much of the Pathan pride of race. The cis-Indus branch is more orderly and skillful in agriculture. The Isa Khel is the predominant and most warlike section; but they all make good soldiers. A section of them is still independent and engaged in Pawindah traffic, spending the summer about kandhar and wintering in Dera Ismail Khan. They are strict Sunni, They seem to be a quarrelsome people, for the proverb says—- The Niazi like rows. “[P-81&82]
In Kohat the exception of a narrow strip of land stretching along the northern border of the Teri Khattak from Togh to Dhoda which is held by the Niazi, the whole is in the hands of Bangash and Khattak . [P-84]
The Kundi are a small Pawindah awesome clan who claim descents from of the ancestor of the Niazi. They settled in Tank with the Daulat Khel Lohani, and original held in tract along the Suhe stream in North-east corner of Tank. But within last 50 years Marwat immigrants have encroached largely on their eastern lands
They are lawless set and great robbers, and the proverb runs—– “Adead Kundi is better than a live one.” [P-79]
The Population of Niazis as are Distritc Ambala:117, Jalandhar 65, Hoshiarpur 12, Lahore 30, Rawalpindi 71, Dera Ismail Khan (included Bhakkar) 2377, Dera Ghazi Khan 201, Bannu (included Mianwali & Lakki) 30199, Peshawar, Kohat 2677 & Native States 57
Total:36371
The Kundi tirbe population distribution is as
Dera Ismail Khan 3590 ,Dera Ghazi Khan 5,Bannu 21 Total:3667
Grand Total of Niazai included Kundi:40038[72]
The Punjab Caste by Sir Dennzil ibittson
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