Kakar

Kakar
کاکړ
کاکڑ
काकड़
Languages
Pashto
Religion
Islam, Hinduism[1]
Related ethnic groups
other Gharghashti Pashtun and Ghilji tribes

The Kakar (Pashto: کاکړ, Urdu: کاکڑ, Hindi: काकड़) is a Gharghashti Pashtun tribe, based mostly in the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, and Loy Kandahar in Afghanistan.

After the partition of British India, Hindu members of the Kakar tribe, known as Sheen Khalai (Pashto: شین خالئی, Hindi: शीन ख़लाई), became settled in Unniara, Rajasthan, India.[1]

Legendary origin

Kakars are sons of Gharghasht (Gharghakht), who was the son of Qais Abdul Rashid. According to historians, Gharghasht was alive in 388 Ahmed Shakil bambo (Hijri).

In Herat, the Kakar are locally called Kak. Historically, the tribe has been called Kak-kor (lit. family of Kak). The tomb of Kakar (or Kak) is in front of Herat central Jamia Masjid's gate. Some historians argue that Kakar was first buried in Kohistan, but Ghiyath al-Din Ghori brought the body to be re-buried in a mosque in the city of Herat.

Kakar’s father’s name was Dani. Dani had four more sons named Panai, Babai, Naghar and Davi. Kakar has 18 own sons and six adopted. The Mashwanis are Arab origin Pukhtuns tribe settled in some parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan (Swabi, Mardan, Sirikot, Dir, Panjpai, Gadwalian, Panjgoor, Shakargarh, Quetta, D I Khan etc.) and Iran, are also supposed to be remotely connected to the Kakars in the female line, but they are said to be descended from Syed Muhammad Kalan Gesu daraz eleventh descended from Islamic Prophet Muhammad, as he married a Kakar woman Sher Bano. Mashwani is said to be one of his sons from Kakar wife.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]


History

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908); the Kakar, historically the first tribe in Balochistan with (105,444) persons, the Tareen historically are the second largest tribe in Baluchistan with 37,906 persons (though this likely includes the Durrani), and the Pani (20,682) and Shirani (7,309).

Prior to the partition of India, Hindu members of the Kakar tribe, known as Sheen Khalai, resided in the Quetta, Loralai and Maikhter regions of the British Indian province of Baluchistan.[1] After 1947, they fled to Unniara, Rajasthan, India.[1]

Notable people

Further reading

  • Kakar tribe
  • History of Pashtoons, sardar Qurban Ali Jogezai 1979, by Sardar Sher Muhammed Gandapur (in Persian)
  • A History of Afghan, 1960, by Abdul-Hai Habibi (in Persian)
  • The Pathans, 1967, by Sir Olaf Caroe
  • Tarikh-i Khan Jahani wa Makhzan-i Afghani, 1500–1600, by Khwaja Nimatullah Heravi and Hebat Khan Abubakarzai Kakar.(in Pashto) (in Persian)
  • Wikisource "Kakar". Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). 1911.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Haider, Suhasini (3 February 2018). "Tattooed 'blue-skinned' Hindu Pushtuns look back at their roots". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Henry, Walter Bellew (1862). Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan in 1857, Under Major Lumsden: With an Account of the Country and People. National Library of the Netherlands: Elder Smith, 1862.
  3. ↑ Balfour, Edward (1885). The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial and Scientific, Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, Volume 2. India: B. Quartitch, 1885.
  4. ↑ ہروی, خواجہ نعمت اللہ. تاریخ خان جھانی مخزن افغانی. pp. 648–649.
  5. ↑ کرمانی, شاہ عطااللہ. روضہ الاحباب.
  6. ↑ Gandapur, Sher Muhammad Khan (1894). تواریخ خورشید جھاں. Lahore: Islamiya Kutab. pp. 275–309.
  7. ↑ (Pakistan), Baluchistan (1979-01-01). Balochistan Through the Ages: Tribes. Nisa Traders : sole distributors Gosha-e-Adab.
  8. ↑ Khān, Muḥammad Ḥayāt (1981-01-01). Afghanistan and Its Inhabitants. Sang-e-Meel Publications.
  9. ↑ Bellew, Henry Walter (1978-01-01). Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (now Colonel) Lumsden: With an Account of the Country and People. Orient Research Centre.
  10. ↑ (Pakistan), Baluchistan (1907-01-01). Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series: Quetta-Pishin. printed at Bombay Education Society's Press.
  11. ↑ Khalil, Malik Muhammad. Tribe Khalil & The Brighten Persons Of Khalil: Tribe Khalil, famous people of tribe khalil (in Arabic). AttaUrRehman.
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