The Tanaoli

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This article is an extract from PANJAB CASTES SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. Being a reprint of the chapter on The Races, Castes and Tribes of the People in the Report on the Census of the Panjab published in 1883 by the late Sir Denzil Ibbetson, KCSI Lahore : Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1916. Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article.

Tanaoli

(Caste No. 54)

The Tanaoli are said to claim descent from Amir Khan, a Barlas Mughal, whose two sons Hind Khan and Pal Khan crossed the Indus some four centuries ago and settled in Tanawal of Hazara ; and they say that they are named after some other place of the same name in Afghanistan. But there can be little doubt that they are of Aryan and probably of Indian stock. We first find them in the trans-Indus basin of the Mahaban, from which they were driven across the Indus by the Yusufzai some two centuries ago. They now occupy Tanawal or the ex tensive hill country between the river and the Urash plains.

They are divided into two great tribes, the Hindwal and Pallal, of which the latter Occupy the northern portion of Tanawal, and their territory forms the diffrents of the serai-independent Chief of Amb. Of the 40,000 Plazara Tanaolis,8,737 have returned themselves as Pallal, 1,964 as Dafral, a sept of the Pallal; and only 1,076 as Hinclwal. It is probable that clans were not recorded in the Amb territory where the Hindwal, and indeed the great mass of the Tanaolis dwell. They are an industrious and peaceful race of cultivators ; but their bad faith has given rise to the saying — Tanawali he-qauli, the Tanaolis word is naught.