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This article is an extract from <br/>

PANJAB CASTES <br/>

SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. <br/>

Being a reprint of the chapter on <br/>
The Races, Castes and Tribes of <br/>
the People in the Report on the <br/>
Census of the Panjab published <br/>
in ''' 1883 ''' by the late Sir Denzil <br/>
Ibbetson, KCSI <br/>

Lahore : <br/>

Printed  by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, <br/>

1916. <br/>
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=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. ''