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The Afrīdī (Pashto: اپريدی Aprīdai, plur. اپريدي Aprīdī; Urdu: آفریدی) are a Pashtun tribe present in Pakistan, with substantial numbers in Afghanistan.[1]
The Afridis are most dominant in the Spin Ghar range west of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, covering most of the Khyber Pass and Maidan in Tirah.[2] Afridi migrants are also found in India, mostly in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.[3]
Etymology and origins
Etymology
Herodotus in his Histories, mentions a tribe named Aparytai (Ἀπαρύται) inhabiting the Achaemenid satrapy of Arachosia.[4] Thomas Holdich and Olaf Caroe have linked them with the Afridi tribe:[5][6][7][8]
The Sattagydae, Gandarii, Dadicae, and Aparytae (Ἀπαρύται) paid together a hundred and seventy talents; this was the seventh province
— Herodotus, The Histories, Book III, Chapter 91, Section 4
Aurel Stein described Afridis with more lighter/fair features, similar to their Dardic neighbors, in contrast to Afghan Pashtuns living on the other side of the KhyberPass, whom he described as darker/swarthier.[9]
Theory of Afridi descent from Israelites
The Afridis, along with other tribes of Pashtuns have also been alleged to be the descendants of the lost Jewish tribes. However, DNA and other research towards validating such claims has been inconclusive.[10][11][12]
History
Resistance against the Mughals
The Afridis and their allies Khalils were first mentioned in the memoirs of Mughal Emperor Babar as violent tribes in need of subduing.[13] The Afridi tribes controlled the Khyber Pass, which has served as a corridor connecting the Indian subcontinent with Afghanistan and Central Asia. Its strategic value was not lost on the Mughals to whom the Afridis were implacably hostile.[14]
Over the course of Mughal rule, Emperors Akbar and Jahangir both dispatched punitive expeditions to suppress the Afridis, to little success.[15]
Under the leadership of Darya Khan Afridi, they engaged in protracted warfare against the Mughal army in the 1670s.[16] The Afridis once destroyed two large Mughal armies of Emperor Aurangzeb: in 1672, in a surprise attack between Peshawar and Kabul, and in the winter of 1673, in an ambush in the mountain passes.[17] The emperor sent his Rajpoot general Rai Tulsidas with reinforcements into the mountains to suffocate the revolt and liberate the mountain.[17][18] Allegedly, only five Mughal soldiers made it out of the battle alive the rest of Mughal were brutally slaughtered.[19][20][21]
British Raj
During the First, Second, and Third Anglo-Afghan Wars, Afridis fought against the British; these skirmishes comprised some of the fiercest fighting of the Anglo-Afghan Wars.[22] Ajab Khan Afridi was a well-known independence activist against the British Raj.
The British colonial administration regarded the Pashtun Afridi tribesmen as "martial tribe" under the martial races theory.[23] Different Afridi clans also cooperated with the British in exchange for subsidies, and some even served with the Khyber Rifles, an auxiliary force of the British Indian Army.[23][24]
First Kashmir War
Shortly after the Partition of India and the creation of Pakistan, Afridi tribesmen were among the ranks of the Pashtun militias that invaded the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in October 1947, sparking the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the ongoing Kashmir conflict.[25] Today, Afridis make use of their dominant positions along the Durand Line in areas of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province by controlling transport and various businesses, including trade in armaments, munitions and goods.[1]
Clans
The Afridi Tribe is subclassified into eight sub-tribes (khels):[26]
- Kuki Khel
- Qambar Khel
- Zakha Khel
- Kamar Khel
- Malikdin Khel
- Aka Khel
- Sepah
- Adam Khel
Religion
All Afridis follow the Sunni sect of Islam. Their conversion to Islam is attributed to Sultan (Emperor) Mahmud of Ghazni by Denzil Ibbetson[27] and Haroon Rashid.[28](The majority are Sunnis, but there are also Shias who live in Gilgit Nagar, Hunza, North Pakistan)
List of notable Afridis
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Shahid_Afridi_at_the_County_Ground%2C_Taunton%2C_during_Pakistan%27s_2010_tour_of_England_-_20100902.jpg/220px-Shahid_Afridi_at_the_County_Ground%2C_Taunton%2C_during_Pakistan%27s_2010_tour_of_England_-_20100902.jpg)
- Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer and former national captain
- Ajab Khan Afridi, Pashtun Independence Freedom Fighter against British Raj who took revenge against a British Raid on his home through Guerilla Warfare, sparking the Afridi Redshirts Rebellion
- Jemadar Mir Mast Khan Afridi, Defected from the British Army during the First World War and recruited fellow Pashtun soldiers of the Tribal Belt for the Ottoman cause operating from Afghanistan[29]
- Monawar Khan Afridi, Brigadier in the British Indian Army, notably a Doctor during the Burma Campaign working against Malaria and later served as the third Vice-Chancellor for the University of Peshawar
- Mirza Muhammad Afridi, Pakistani politician and senator, Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan and a member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
- Asghar Khan, Pakistani Air Marshal who built up the Pakistan Air Force as its first Native Commander-in-Chief, served as President of Pakistan International Airlines and a Pacifist Human Rights Activist Politician serving as Chairman of the Solidarity movement
- Zakir Husain, third President of India, from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969
- Javed Afridi, owner of PSL team Peshawar Zalmi and owner of Haier Pakistan
- Khatir Afridi, Pashto poet
- Malik Mehrun Nisa Afridi, twice member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Pakistan Peoples Party
- Riaz Afridi, former cricketer for the Pakistan Cricket Team
- Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
- Yasir Afridi, Pakistani footballer
- Sher Ali Afridi, former policeman from Peshawar who assassinated Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of British India, in 1872
- Shakeel Afridi, physician
- Ayub Afridi, drug lord
- Ahmad Kamal Faridi (Colonel Fareedi, Colonel Faridi), internationally famous character of Ibn-e-Safi, world renowned mystery writer/novelist of Pakistan. Ibn-e-Safi showed in his two novels (out of 125 novels) of Jasoosi Dunya (The Spy World) novel number 52 and novel number 117 that Colonel Fareedi belongs to Afridi tribe.
- Malik Sher Muhammad Khan Afridi, Chief of Sepah. He along with the Maliks of Khyber Agency visited Kolkatta on train from Peshawar along with Political Agent, Colonel Robert Warburton.[30] He also was a key figure in the relations between the Pathans especially the Afridis and the British Government during the 19th century, also mentioned in the book Eighteen Years in the Khyber.[31]
- Malik Muhammad Akbar Afridi Sepah, 1946-1998, former Chieftain of the Bara of Khyber Agency, met Princess Diana and former British Prime Minister John Major during their visits to Peshawar, Pakistan.
References
- ^ a b Afridi demographics in Pakistan and Afghanistan The excessive figure sometimes mentioned in Afghanistan reflects in a particular way the Afghan claim to Pashtunistan and actually represents an estimate of the whole of the Afridi tribe on both sides of the frontier.
- ^ Ramachandran (26 January 2023). Red Jihad: Islamic Communism in India 1920-1950. Indus Scrolls Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-93-90981-33-5.
- ^ Study of the Pathan Communities in Four States of India, Khyber.org (retrieved 30 January 2008)
- ^ "The History of Herodotus Chapter 3, Verse 91; Written 440 B.C.E, Translated by G. C. Macaulay". sacred-texts.com. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ "Herodotus, The Histories, Book 3, chapter 91, section 4". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ Dani, Ahmad Hasan (2007). History of Pakistan: Pakistan through ages. Sang-e Meel Publications. p. 77. ISBN 978-969-35-2020-0.
- ^ Holdich, Thomas (12 March 2019). The Gates of India, Being an Historical Narrative. Creative Media Partners, LLC. pp. 28, 31. ISBN 978-0-530-94119-6.
- ^ Caroe, Olaf (1957). The Pathans, 550 B.C.-A.D. 1957. Oxford University Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-19-577221-0.
- ^ Stewart, J. (2007). The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier. History Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7524-9607-8. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ Amir Mizroch (9 January 2010). "Are Taliban descendants of Israelites?". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011.
- ^ Sachin Parashar (11 January 2010). "Lucknow Pathans have Jewish roots?". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.
- ^ Rory McCarthy (17 January 2010). "Pashtun clue to lost tribes of Israel". The Observer.
- ^ A. S. Beveridge, Babor-nama London, 1922 [repr. 1969], p. 412
- ^ History of Khyber Agency: Gateway to the Subcontinent Archived 13 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Office of the Political Agent, Khyber Agency
- ^ C.M. Kieffer, Afridi, Encyclopædia Iranica
- ^ Momand, Ahmad Gul. The Bare Language of Khoshal's Poetry. Nangarhar University. p. 13.
- ^ a b Richards, John F. (1996), "Imperial expansion under Aurangzeb 1658–1869. Testing the limits of the empire: the Northwest.", The Mughal Empire, New Cambridge history of India: The Mughals and their contemporaries, vol. 5 (illustrated, reprint ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 170–171, ISBN 978-0-521-56603-2
- ^ Khyber Agency Khyber.org, 3 July 2005
- ^ Geoffrey Powell; J. S. W. Powell (1983), Famous regiments (illustrated ed.), Secker & Warburg, p. 69, ISBN 978-0-436-37910-9
- ^ Robert E. L. Masters; Eduard Lea (1963). Perverse crimes in history: evolving concepts of sadism, lust-murder, and necrophilia from ancient to modern times. Julian Press. p. 211. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ Robert E. L. Masters; Eduard Lea (1963). Sex crimes in history: evolving concepts of sadism, lust-murder, and necrophilia, from ancient to modern times. Julian Press. p. 211. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ L. Thomas, Beyond Khyber Pass, London, n.d. (ca. 1925)
- ^ a b Clarke, Alexander (30 October 2020). Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer. Seaforth Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-5267-7291-6.
- ^ Stewart, Dr Jules (22 June 2006). The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda. The History Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-7524-9558-3.
- ^ M.K. Teng (2001) Kashmir: The Bitter Truth Archived 26 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Kashmir Information Network
- ^ Nirvan, Kiran (20 May 2019). 21 Kesaris: The Untold Story of the Battle of Saragarhi. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-93-89000-41-2.
- ^ Denzil Ibbetson, Edward MacLagan, H. A. Rose "A Glossary of The Tribes & Castes of The Punjab & North-West Frontier Province", 1911 AD, Page 217, Vol. III, Published by Asian Educational Services
- ^ History of the Pathans by Haroon Rashid Published by Haroon Rashid, 2002 Item notes: v. 1 Page 45 Original from the University of Michigan
- ^ M. Fahim Jemadar Mir Mast Khan Afridi: An Unsung Afridi Pashtun Hero Who Refused to Fight against Ottoman Army and Deserted the British Raj (2020) Pakistan Info
- ^ "Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 — Viewer — World Digital Library".
- ^ "Review of Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879–1898 by Col. Sir Robert Warburton"
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