Talk:Kurram Agency (version 2)

GAZETTEER OF KURRAM However this state of affairs could not last for long .As was naturally to be expected ,the richness of the land gradually weaned the Turis from their nomadic life.Sections built villages and settled permanent; they ceased to be : Kuchi :and became :Kothi :this abandonment of their nomadic habits by the majority of the resulted,as it was bound to do ,in a contraction of the area in effective possession .The upper Kurram plain was safe as their head-quarters,but hills and slopes below the Safed Koh and Mandher over which their graziers had kept an efficient watch,now afforded a manace as a place in which an encroaching tribe could established itself.To guard against this settlements of Mangales and Muqbols were half invited half allowed to push themselves in conditions of Vassalage, and on promise to afford a buttress against any  Sunni aggression. In the lower Kurram, where for climatic reasons candidates for settlements were fewer , the problem was not easily solved .The Chardi Turis seem to have been the first to abandon their nomadic life.As the numbers who went down to graze every year became less,the area under control contracted. Sangroba and Hadmela were left far behind and as the Turis receded the Watizai Zaimushts gradually pushed in, until all that was left was a settlement at and about Alizai. On the western side the Saragallas retained ,and still largely retain their habits.They too put in settlements around Biliamin and after much intervening warfare had finally to admit Bangashes brother not as Vassals ,but for the rest they retain unimpaired the rights on the western bank which they acquirerd at the time the conquest. With Chardis this was for from being the course left unsupported by their Kuchis they maintained a precarious existence at Alizai until even then they had to give three-fifth of their land to the Watizai Zaimushts in return for their assistance in  a feud they had entered upon with Bilyamin .Consequently the hills and the grazing grounds passed from the Turizun to the Zaimushtzun and as the other Zaimushts section being unopposed had settled themselves on the left bank below Sadda. TO BE CONTIUNE

Merge it with Kurram Valley
This page has same scope as Kurram valley, therefore I propose that it should be merged with Kurram Valley. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Waleedmansoor (talk • contribs) 07:22, 30 September 2008 (UTC)