Tarin

In the Makhzan-i Afghani, in Dorn's translation, Sarbanni had two sons, Sharkhbun and Kharshbun, and Sharkhbun had five: Sheerani, Taren, Miana, Baraich and Ormar. The book calls Taren the eldest son of Sharkhbun's second wife and says Sharkhbun meant to give him the title of Malik. Taren had three sons, Toor, Aspin and Avdal. The Khulasat al-Ansab, quoted in Dorn's notes, says Toor got his name from a dark complexion and Spin from a fair one, and that Abdal is the ancestor of the Abdalis or Durrani.

The Baluchistan gazetteers, which record local tradition, call Tarin the son of Sharaf-ud-din, son of Ibrahim, son of Qais Abdur Rashid, and give him four sons: Spin, Tor, Zhar and Bor. They say the name Abdal gradually replaced Bor Tarin, and came into prominence when Ahmad Shah Abdali began his conquests. The same gazetteers note that the Achakzai, still called Abdals, are counted as a separate political unit and that the Tor and Spin Tarins have no common cause with each other.^1,4,5

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Elphinstone places Pishin, east of Shorawak, as the country of the Tereens, divided into the Tor (black) and Speen (white) branches. The Tor Tarins held Pishin. The Speen Tarins held the long valley of Zawura and the plains of Thal and Chotiali, reaching towards the Sulaiman range and separated from the Tor Tarins by part of the Kakar country. Both obeyed one Khan. In Pishin he found farming the main work, with many people also trading between Kandahar and Upper Sind and acting as carriers, and he guessed eight to ten thousand families.

Bellew, in 1891, says the Tarin occupy the Sibi and Pishin districts and are part farmers, part herdsmen. He puts the Spin Tarin in Thal-Chotiali, reckoned at 6,000 families and largely engaged in the carrying trade, and the Tor Tarin in the Pishin valley, at 10,000 families. The gazetteers of 1907 show Spin Tarins settled at Duki, Sanjawi and Shahrig, and Tor Tarins in Pishin and at Duki and Harnai.^2–6

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The Quetta-Pishin gazetteer records a tradition that the Malikyar section set up Tarin rule in Pishin in the fourteenth century by defeating the Zamands, and lists the governors down to Paind Khan, with whom it says Tarin power in Pishin ended. Pakar Khan, a contemporary of Ahmad Shah Durrani, extended Tarin influence, and Ahmad Shah gave him the title Amir-ul-umra. His son Buland Khan was made deputy in Pishin by the Sadozai rulers, and Buland's son Paind Khan fell out with Kandahar and was replaced.

In Harnai, the Sibi gazetteer quotes Duke saying the Tarins claim to have taken it from the Hindus 600 or 700 years earlier, when they were still nomads.^5,6

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A small Tarin colony lives in the Haripur plain of Hazara, and they are Tor Tarins. The Hazara gazetteer of 1907 says they came at the invitation of the Gujars, whom they gradually supplanted. The first to settle was Sher Khan, who was driven out of Kandahar province by its governor and, about 1631, took service under Shah Jahan, who gave him 200,000 rupees, a contingent of 1,000 horse and a jagir that was perhaps in the tract the Tarins now hold. They became the most important tribe of Lower Hazara.

Their chief Himmat Khan was succeeded by his son Najibullah Khan, who founded Kot Najibullah and governed most of the Hazara plain until his death in 1799. His widow Bari Begam ruled after him. In 1803 the Tarin family, under a retainer, Mukaddam Musharraf, killed a kazi sent from Attock to collect revenue. Under the Sikhs the tribe's power waned. Their chief in the Sikh period, Muhammad Khan, opposed the Sikh governors after 1818 and died in 1825 from poison given on the orders of Sirdar Hari Singh, and his son Gulam Khan went over to the Durranis in 1848, was deported to Allahabad and hanged in the jail there in 1857. The gazetteer counted 2,006 Tarins in Hazara in 1901.⁷

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