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DURANI, or DURRANI

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DURANI, or DURRANI , the dominant See also:race of Afghans, to which the ruling See also:family at See also:Kabul belongs. The Duranis number 1oo,000 fighting men, and have two branches, the Zirak and the Panjpai. To the former See also:section belong the Popalzai, Alikozai, Barakzai and Achakzai; and to the latter the Nurzai, Alizai, Isakzai, Khokani and Maku tribes. The Saddozai See also:clan of the Popalzai Duranis furnished the first See also:independent shahs of the Durani See also:dynasty (A.D. 1747), the Barakzais furnishing the amirs. The See also:line of the shahs was overthrown in the third See also:generation (A.D. 1834), after a protracted See also:period of anarchy and dissension, which See also:broke out on the See also:death in A.D. 1773 of Ahmad Shah Durani, the founder of Afghan See also:national See also:independence. See also:Bar Durani is a name sometimes applied to the independent See also:Pathan tribes who inhabit the See also:hill districts See also:south of the See also:Hindu Kush, parts of the See also:Indus valley, the See also:Salt Range, and the range of Suliman, which were first conceded to them by Ahmad Shah. Bar Durani includes the See also:Yusafzai, Utman Khel, Tarkanis, Mohmands, Afridis, Orakzais and Shinwaris, as well as the Pathan tribes of the plains of See also:Peshawar and those of See also:Bangash and See also:Khattak, although the derivation of some of these tribes from the true Durani stock is doubtful.

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