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DAWARI, or DAUR1

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAWARI, or DAUR1 , a See also:Pathan tribe on the Waziri border of the See also:North-See also:West Frontier See also:Province of See also:India. The Dawaris inhabit the Tochi Valley (q.v.), otherwise known as Dawar or Daur, and are a homogeneous tribe of considerable See also:size, numbering 5200 fighting men. Though surrounded on all four sides by a Waziri See also:population they See also:bear little resemblance to Waziris. They are an agricultural and the Waziris a See also:pastoral See also:race, and they are much richer than their neighbours. They thrive on a See also:rich sedimentary See also:soil copiously irrigated in the midst of a See also:country where cultivable See also:land of any See also:kind is scarce and See also:water in See also:general hardly to be obtained. But they pay a heavy tax in See also:health and well-being for the See also:possession of their fertile acres. Fevers and other ravaging diseases are bred in the wet sodden lands of the Tochi Valley, lying at the bottom of a deep depression exposed to the burning rays of the See also:sun; and the effects of these ailments may be clearly traced in the See also:drawn or bloated features and the shrunken or swollen limbs of nearly every Dawari that has passed See also:middle See also:life. They have an evil name for indolence, See also:drug-eating and unnatural vices, and are morally the lowest of the Afghan races; but in spite of these defects, and of the contempt with which they are regarded by the other Afghan tribes, they have held their own for centuries against the warlike and See also:hardy Waziris. The See also:secret of this is that the Dawaris stand together, and the Waziris do not, while the weaker race is gifted with See also:infinite See also:patience and tenacity of purpose. With the See also:advent of See also:British See also:government, however, the Dawaris are now secured in the possession of their ancestral lands. See J. G.

Lorimer, See also:

Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri See also:Pushtu (1902).

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