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This article is about the Pashtoon tribe. For the Indian Kakar/Kakkar (Khatri) surname, see Kakkar. For the village in Iran, see Karkar, Selseleh. For the deer, see Muntjac.

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

Legendary origin

Kakars are sons of Gharghashti who was the son of Qais Abdul Rashid. 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[who?] 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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]


History

Until the fifteenth century, Kakars along with Tajiks, Baloch and Farsiwans mainly inhibited Qandahar region, and were considered distinct from Pashtuns. Later, because of the predominant position of Abdali and Ghilzai Pashtuns in Qandahar region during and around fourteenth century, Tajiks, Hazaras, Kakars and Baloch lost their previous possessions and were forced to pay tax or revenue to their Pashtun warlords from either Abdali or Ghilzai tribal divisions. In these areas, the locals were not displaced yet subjugated. They were reduced to the status of peasant "riay'at" or tenants "himsaya". Eventually, some of these indigenous people assimilated and became part of dominant Pashtun confederacy, while others moved further west or north Afghanistan.[10][11][12][13]

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 now Pakistan.[14] After 1947, they fled to Unniara, Rajasthan, India.[14]

Notable people

Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (senator from Baluchistan awami party)

Further reading

  • Kakar tribe
  • History of Pashtoons 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 and Persian)
  • "Kakar" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ ہروی, خواجہ نعمت اللہ. تاریخ خان جھانی مخزن افغانی. pp. 648–649.
  4. ^ کرمانی, شاہ عطااللہ. روضہ الاحباب.
  5. ^ Gandapur, Sher Muhammad Khan (1894). تواریخ خورشید جھاں. Lahore: Islamiya Kutab. pp. 275–309.
  6. ^ (Pakistan), Baluchistan (1 January 1979). Balochistan Through the Ages: Tribes. Nisa Traders : sole distributors Gosha-e-Adab.
  7. ^ Khān, Muḥammad Ḥayāt (1 January 1981). Afghanistan and Its Inhabitants. Sang-e-Meel Publications.
  8. ^ Bellew, Henry Walter (1 January 1978). 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.
  9. ^ (Pakistan), Baluchistan (1 January 1907). Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series: Quetta-Pishin. printed at Bombay Education Society's Press.
  10. ^ name=DostMuhammad>Christine Noelle. State and Tribe in Nineteenth-century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826–1863). Psychology Press. p. 161.
  11. ^ Dupree 1980: 377-378
  12. ^ Durand 1879: 83-84
  13. ^ Norris 1967: 295
  14. ^ a b Haider, Suhasini (3 February 2018). "Tattooed 'blue-skinned' Hindu Pushtuns look back at their roots". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
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