Karlāṇī ( ps, کرلاڼي) is a
Pashtun
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...
tribal confederacy. They primarily inhabit the
FATA region of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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province of
Pakistan
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and certain parts of eastern Afghanistan. In the 16th century the Karlani founded the
Karrani dynasty, the last dynasty to rule the
Bengal Sultanate
The Sultanate of Bengal ( Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা ''Shahī Baṅgala'', Classical Persian: ''Saltanat-e-Bangālah'') was an empire based in Bengal for much of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It was the domina ...
.
The legend of Karlani in the folklore says:
"In his infancy he became an orphan and after losing his family he alone survived and was adopted by the
Ormur Tribe. The tribe gave him shelter & protection & raised him like their own son. When he reached a marriageable age, the chief of the Ormur tribe made Karlan his son in law."
''History Of The Mohamedan Power In India''
by Muhammad Qāsim Hindū Šāh Astarābādī Firištah, The Packard Humanities Institute
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Persian Texts in Translation (retrieved 10 January 2007). But actually He is not the son of Ghurghusht nor Ormur.
Legacy
Karlan had two sons named Kodi and Kaki, then Kodi had two sons named (Dilzak) Dilazak
The Dilazak ( ps, دلزاک) is a Pashtun tribe, primarily living in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
History
The Dilazak originally dwelled in eastern Afghanistan. They were among the earliest Pashtun tribes to have migrated to present-day northwestern Paki ...
and (Shamak Khan) Orakzai from whom the first branch of Karlani tribes descend.
See also
* Nimat Allah al-Harawi
Ni'mat Allah al-Harawi (also known as Niamatullah; ) was a chronicler at the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir where he compiled a Persian history of the Afghans, the ''Makhzan-i-Afghani''. Its translated copies appear as ''The History of the A ...
author of ''Tarikh-i-Khan Jahani Makhzan-i-Afghani'' also known as ''The History of the Afghans''
* Amir Kror Suri
Amīr Krōṛ Sūrī ( ps, امير کروړ سوري), also known as Jahan Pahlawan, is a legendary character in Afghan national history and is claimed to have become the King of Mandesh in Ghor. Amir Kror Suri is considered to be the first poet ...
References
{{Pashtun tribes