The Jadun

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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.

Jadun

The Jadun or Gadun, as they are called indiffer ently/ have returned themselves as Pathans to the number of 17,256, of whom 16,962 are in Hazara and 279 in Rawalpindi. They claim descent from Sarhang, a great-grandson of Ghurghusht, two of whose sons fled, they say, because of a blood feud to the mountains of Chach and Hazjira. It is however almost certain that the Jadun are of Indian origin ; and it has been suggested that in their name is preserved the name of Jadu or Yadu, the founder of the Rajput Yadubansi dynasty, many of whose descendants migrated from Gujarat some 1,100 years before Christ, and were afterwards found in the hills of Kabul and Kandahar.

They occupy all the south eastern portion of the territory between the Peshawar and Hazara borders, and the southern slopes of Mahaban ; and when Jahangir finally crushed the Dilazak, they spread ub the Dor valley as high as Abbottabad, Early in the 18th century, on the expulsion of the Karlagh Turks by Saiyad Jalal Baba (section 412) they appropriated the country about Dhamtaur ; and about a hundred years later they took the Bagra tract from the few remaining Dilazak who held it, while shortly before the Sikhs took the country their Hassazai clan deprived the Karral of a portion of the Nilan valley. They are divided into three main clans, Salar, Mansur, and Hassazai, of which the last is not represented among the trans-Indus Jadun and has lost all connection

with the parent tribe, having even forgotten its old Pashto languages. Dr. Bellew makes them a Gakkhar clan, but this appears to be incorrect. The true Pathans of Hazara call them Mlatar or merce naries, from the Pashto equivalent for lakhan or one who girds his loins.The Jadun clans return ed in our tables are shown in the margin.