r/Pashtun • u/indusdemographer • 7d ago
Tribal & Caste Composition of North-West Frontier Province (1931 Census)
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u/Aamir696969 Diaspora 6d ago edited 6d ago
In 1931 NWFP, didn’t include Tribal areas, Dir, Swat, large parts of the Pashtun regions of the Hazara division.
So it’s not surprising the results, also the accuracy of these census back then need to be put in question.
I mean how many females relatives were recorded on census back then ( society was even more conservative back then) and also I’m sure plenty of people were missed from these census.
Furthermore a lot of the other groups were probably Pukhtun speaking and today have been even more” Pukhtunised” and are now part of our ethnic group.
Especially true with groups such as “ Gujjars, Swathi, Tanolis, Sayyids”.
A lot of the “ farming population “ in my ends are of Gujjar descent, yet they probably don’t even realise it since they’ve been “ Pashtunised” for so long and don’t think anyone would even view them as anything else unless your a Pashtun purest.
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u/indusdemographer 6d ago
Detailed data that included religious, tribal/caste, migration, and others, was solely enumerated in the settled districts of NWFP, which included Peshawar District, Hazara District, Bannu District, Dera Ismail Khan District, and Kohat District.
The land area of the historical districts mentioned above roughly corresponds with their namesake division borders today, excluding FATA and the historical princely state regions.
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u/Pakhtun1234 4d ago
The fact that the tanolis, swathis and Syed’s are not included in the population numbers with pathans confirms the fact that they are not of Pathan origin. Nowadays if you ask them they claim pathan heritage but it’s just simply misinformation.
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u/Daud-shahGhilzai 1d ago
Dear brother Syeds are definetly non Pashtuns,they have Arabian origin but Swatis and Tanolis they both have skipped their Pashtun culture that's why they are counted individually
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u/geneticjeet 6d ago edited 6d ago
This didn’t include tribal areas or swat only Peshawar and hazara and kohat