Ghulam

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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.

Ghulam

Caste No 130

These men are returned from the Peshawar district to the number of 3,347 under the name of Ghulam Khanazad, and from ]Multan to the number of 99 to the name of Khanazad simply. The latter may be an error for Khauzadah. The Peshawar men show their clans as Turlvhel Ghulam and Malekhel. They are said to be descendants of captives in war who were made slaves {ghulam), whence their name. They are still chiefly employed in domestic service, and are generally attached to their hereditary masters, though some of them have taken to shop-keeping and other occupations.

Since writing the above, which is based upon the information of a highly educated gentleman in our political service, himself a Native of Peshawar, I find that Muhammad Ilaivat Khan states in his Haiydt-i- Afghani that the Qizilbash of Kabul described below are collectively known as Ghulam khanah. If so, our Ghulam Khanazads are probably nothing more than Qizilbtishes. But the class described above does exist in Peshawar in consider able numbers.