Chronicles of Early Janjuas

By Dr. Hussain Khan

This book is the biography and history of the name " Janjua". The author walks us through the pages of history and tells us how the name evolved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 12, 2003
• ISBN: 9781462088645

Dr. Hussain Khan

Dr. Hussain Khan born in 1929 in the village of Shamsabad, Pakistan, received his early education from Government High School, Hazro; took B.A. Honors in History from the University of London, England and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. He is the author of multiple research articles and has edited the " Afsana-i-Shahan". His PhD work was published in 1987 with title Sher Shan Suri. He has been teaching at the postgraduate level since 1959 and has recently retired as Professor of History, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Contents

Introduction

Janjuas, their Early Life

Kuh-i-Jud and the Janjuas

Janju’as in Hazara

Conclusion

Introduction

As a starting point on the research of the early Janjuas, while I was a student at a postgraduate level of the Gordon College, Rawalpindi, I came across an inference in a history book in the library of that college that the Hindu Shahiyas were Janjuas. The same point was brought to my notice by Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani. This being the case and being Janjua myself, I made research on the issue. In this context for the first time I spoke as An Interpretation of Al-Biruni’s Account of the Hindu-Shahiyas of Kabul at Al-Biruni International Congress (Peshawar) session, December 1973. A Professor of Moscow University, and two scholars, one from New York and the other from Duke University appreciated it soon after, which is as follows:

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Professor Bertold Spuler of Hamburg University, Germany soon after raised a point for more information on the subject. Later he provided me references which are as Appendix of his letter. However, Dr. Abdur Rahman’s work The Last Two Dynasties of Sahis (Islamabad, 1979) filled in the lacuna.

This being the case, its better version as Janjuas, their Early Life was published in the ANCIENT PAKISTAN VOL. VII, 1991, Research bulletin of the Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar.

On another aspect of the Janjuas, I wrote a research article on the Kuh-i-Jud and the Janjuas, Brigadier (Rtd.) Dr. Amir Gulistan Janjua, the former Governor of the N.W.F.P. gave me some important material. This article was published by Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani in the JOURNAL OF CENTRAL ASIA, NO.XIII, NO. 1, JULY 1990, Islamabad.

After that I concentrated my attention on Janjuas in Hazara on an inference which is rare in nature and which I came across in Abu’l Fazl’s Ain-I Akbari, Vol.II. I discussed with scholar Late Brigadier Gulzar Ahmad in his residence at Rawalpindi. My article on this issue was published in PROFESSOR AHMAD HASAN DANI FELICITATION VOLUME Ancient Pakistan, Vol. VIII.

The Chronicles of Early Janjuas thus comprise Introduction, three articles, Conclusion and Appendix. This is being presented to Janjuas as a booklet for their study.

Dr. Hussain Khan

Janjuas, their Early Life

Janjua is an important ancient ethnic stock of South Asia, which tribe once ruled part of Central Asia as an overlord of White Hunas, and then ruled the North West region of South Asia including Afghanistan, taking the title Paramabhatt-araka Maharajadhiraja or Malikal-Hind. The majority of the progeny of this erstwhile royal family inhabit the Central and eastern Salt Range, the east of the Pind Dadan Khan plain, and the south-west of Tehsil Jhelum…There are fairly large settlements in Kashmir (Aurian) and in the Kahuta Tehsil of Rawalpindi, and they are found in small number in many other districts.1

Raja Tanauli, a son of Raja Mal, had settled in Hazara to look after his father’s appanage,2 which led to the settlement of Janjuas in that region. (The Mughul emperor) Nurad-din Jahangir mentions a large predatory band of Januwanas (Janjuas) as far north as the Chach plain near Attock.3

Concerning the