Dhund (tribe)

Dhund is a tribe found in the Abbottabad and Rawalpindi District, as well as Mansehra, Haripur, Bagh, and Muzaffarabad districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir in Pakistan.^[1] They mainly speak Punjabi or Pahari dialects, as well as Hindko.^[2] The word Dhund was an honorary name given to one of their forefathers.^[2]^[3] The Dhund tribe is divided into four sections: the Chandal, Gaiyal, Ratnial, and Andwal clans.^[4]

References

^ Abbasi, Obaid Ur Rehman (22 March 2015). "'Mera gaon', Nagri Totial". Dawn. Retrieved 30 July 2017. It is also in this valley that much of the famous Dhoond tribe of the Abassi family resides; the majority of the Abassis are descendants of the late Great Sardar Totta Khan and late Sardar Dehmat Khan, chieftains of the Dhoond tribe...
^ ^a ^b "Tribes and Language". Murree Hill. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2017. Dhunds are the largest and most prominent tribe of Murree... Historically besides Murree, tribal abode of Dhund Abbasis include parts present day Islamabad Capital Territory, Tehsil Kahuta and Kotli Sattian of Rawalpindi, District Abbottabad, Haripur and Mansehra of NWFP and Deerkot tehsil in the Bagh district of Azad Kashmir.
^ See PH Mayne Hill Tribes on the North-West Frontier and Punjab Lahore, 1945. pp 187-190; and Dani, AH , paper on 'Some Notes on the Major Ethnic Groups and Tribes of Northern Punjab' Islamabad: Quaid e Azam UP, 1972, np. Dani also informs that the Dhund were originally an offshoot of the older Karlal tribe and they eventually adopted the name 'Dhund-Abbasi' to reflect their conversion to Islam at the hands of one Syed Abbas Shah Gilani, during the 12th-13th centuries
^ Wikeley, J.M. (1915). Punjabi Musalmans. Manohar. p. 85. ISBN 978-81-85425-35-1. Retrieved 6 April 2024.