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SHERANI, or SHIRANI

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 841 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHERANI, or SHIRANI , a See also:Pathan tribe on the Dera See also:Ismail See also:Khan border of the See also:North-See also:west Frontier See also:Province of See also:India. The Sherani Agency occupies an See also:area of 1500 sq. in. and had a See also:population in 1901 of 12,371. The Sheranis occupy the See also:principal portion of the See also:mountain known as the Takht-i-Suliman and the See also:country thence eastward down to the border of Dera Ismail Khan See also:district. They are bounded on the north by the See also:Gomal Pass, and beyond that by the Mahsud Waziris; on the See also:south by the Ustaranas and Zmarais; and on the west by the Haripals, Kakars and See also:Mandu Khels. Between the Sherani country and the See also:British border See also:lie several small mountain ridges, across which the three See also:chief passes are the Zarakni or See also:Sheikh Haidar. the Draband and the Chandwan. The Sheranis are generally of middling stature, thin, but See also:hardy and active. They have bold features, high cheek-bones, and their See also:general See also:appearance is See also:wild and manly. Their See also:dress consists of a coarse See also:black blanket tied See also:round the See also:waist, and another thrown over the shoulders. Their chief occupation is See also:agriculture, but they carry on an extensive See also:trade in the autumn months in Dera Ismail Khan district. The Sherani tribe and country are divided into two well-defined branches called Bargha and Largha, or the High-lands and the Lowlands, the inhabitants being called respectively Barghawals and Larghawals. The See also:Highlands are on the See also:side of See also:Zhob, the Lowlands on the side of the Derajat, the dividing See also:line being generally the See also:watershed and higher peaks of the Takht-i-Suliman range of mountains.

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physical configuration of the country makes the separation so See also:complete that the two tribal divisions See also:act independently of each other. After the Zhob expedition of 1890 the question of boundaries between the See also:Punjab and See also:Baluchistan came up for See also:settlement, and the See also:government decided that Bargha should remain with Baluchistan and Largha with the Punjab. The Gomal See also:river from Kundar-Domandi to Kajuri-Kach is the boundary between Baluchistan and See also:Waziristan, as well as between the respective provinces. In 1931 these frontier districts were transferred from the Punjab to the North-west Frontier Province.

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