Ibrahim Khan Bayat
The southern portion of the Laghman valley was inhabited
by Pashtuns and Tajiks, the Pashtuns holding villages on both sides of the
Kabul river, whereas the Tajiks were concentrated in the villages of Charbagh,
Haidar Khani, Mandrawar and Tirgarhi.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Tajikia
portion of Laghman was governed by Ibrahim Khan Bayat, a Qizilbash leader. Both
the Tajik and Pashtun population were described as ‘quite obedient’ at the time
of the Elphinstone mission. This view was contradicted seventy years later by
Warburton, who noted that the revenue collection by the government pitted
Pashtun and Tajik leaders against each other.
State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir
Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863), Christine Noelle, Surrey, England, Curzon,
1997, xxiv + 439 pp. P. 199.
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