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Encyclopedia Britannica



ORAKZAI

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 145 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
ORAKZAI , a Pathan tribe on the
Kohat
  border of the
North
 -West Frontier Province of
India
 . The Orakzais inhabit the mountains to the
north
 -west of
Kohat
 
district
 , bounded on the N. and E. by the Afridis, on the S. by the Miranzai valley and on the W. by the Zaimukht country and the Safed Koh mountains. Their name means " lost tribes," and their origin is buried in obscurity; though they resemble the Afghans in language, features and many of their customs, they are rejected by them as brethren. One branch, the Ali Khel, has been traced to
Swat
 , whence they were expelled by the other inhabitants,
z Farnell, Cults, vol. iv. p. 300, Hibbert Lectures, pp. 139-152.
a Aelian, Var. Hist, iii. 44: Anth. Pal. xiv. 71 and 74.
and it is not improbable that the whole tribe consists of refugee clans of the surrounding races. They are very wiry-looking mountaineers, but they are not as fine men or as brave fighters as their neighbours the Afridis. They cultivate a good deal of the Khanki and Kurmana valleys in the winter, but in the hot months retire to the heights of
Tirah
 , of which they occupy the southern half called the Mastura valley. They have been estimated at 28,000 fighting men, but this estimate must be largely exaggerated, as the country could not possibly support the consequent
population
  of over 1oo,000. They have been the
object
  of various British military expeditions, notably in 1855, 1868, 1869, 1881, and the
Tirah
  campaign of 1897.


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