The description of the area and people enumerated in the “Gazetteer of the North-West Frontier” compiled for political and Military Reference in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, edited by Lt. Col. A.L’E Homes Vol.II, 1987, and in Gazetteer of Buner including adjacent countries (confidential) 1887 pp 62- 66 and “Record of the expeditions against the NWFP
tribes since annexation of the Panjab Lt.Col. W.H Paget, 1873 extract thereof is given below.
“A tribe of Pathans, who reside partly on the south slopes of the Mahaban mountain, and partly in the Hazara District. They are not Yusufzais, like those around them. By some they are supposed to be branch of the Kakar tribe, which was, in the first instance, driven to take refuge in the Sufed Koh, and afterwards in Hazara and Chach. They are called Gaduns or Jaduns indifferently, and their country is termed Gadun.
“A tribe of Pathans, who reside partly on the south slopes of the Mahaban mountain, and partly in the Hazara District. They are not Yusufzais, like those around them. By some they are supposed to be branch of the Kakar tribe, which was, in the first instance, driven to take refuge in the Sufed Koh, and afterwards in Hazara and Chach. They are called Gaduns or Jaduns indifferently, and their country is termed Gadun.
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