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Encyclopedia Britannica



PATHAN

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 913 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PATHAN , the name applied throughout India to the Afghans, especially to those permanently settled in the country and to those dwelling on the borderland. It is apparently derived from the Afghan name for their own language, Pushtu or Pukhtu, and may be traced back to the Paktues of Herodotus. In Igor the
total
  number of Pathans in all India was nearly 31 millions, but the speakers of Pushtu numbered less than l t millions. The name is frequently, but incorrectly, applied to the
Mahommedan
  dynasties that preceded the Moguls at Delhi, and also to the style of architecture employed by them; but of these dynasties only the Lodis were Afghans.
The Pathans of the Indian borderland inhabit the mountainous country on the Punjab frontier, stretching northwards from a line
drawn
  roughly across the southern border of the Dera Ismail
Khan
 
district
 .
South
  of this line are the Baluchis. The Pathans include all the strongest and most warlike tribes of the North-West frontier of India, such as the Afridis, Orakzais, Waziris, Mohmands, Swatis and many other clans. Those in the settled districts of the North-West Frontier Province (in 1901) numbered 883,779, or more than two-fifths of the population. Each of the
principal
  divisions is dealt with separately in this
work
  under its tribal name. The Pathans are split up into different tribes, each tribe into clans, and each clan into sections, so that the nomenclature is often very puzzling. The tribe, clan and section are alike distinguished by patronymics formed from the name of the common ancestor by the addition of the word zai or khel; zai being a corruption of the Pushtu word we, meaning son, while khel is an Arabic word meaning an association or company. Both terms are used indifferently for both the larger and smaller divisions. Pathans enlist largely in the native army of India; and since the frontier risings of 1897 they have been formed with increasing frequency into class-regiments and regiments of native militia. They make excellent soldiers. The greater partof the Pathan country was placed under British political
control
  by the Durand agreement made with the Amir of Afghanistan in 1893.


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