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Powindah|ˈpaʊɪndə|
Also Povindah, Powandah, ‖ pāvendeh.
[Pashto, f. Pers. parvinda merchandise.]
A nomadic trading tribe of Afghanistan; a member of this tribe. Also attrib.
1851H. B. Edwardes Year on Punjab Frontier I. ix. 454 The whole of the trade between India and Central Asia is carried on by periodical caravans, which cross and re-cross the soolimânee mountains every year. They are conducted by Afghan merchants, who are generally called Lohânees, but locally in the Dérajât Powinduhs, or Povindeuhs... Lohânee is not a name applicable to either the Kharotees or the Nâssurs, so I prefer calling them Powinduhs, a name which they all acknowledge. 1880H. W. Bellen Races of Afghanistan xi. 104 During the cold weather, the Povinda is to be seen in most of the larger cities of India. Ibid. 105 These Povinda clans, though classed as subdivisions of the Ghilji people, differ from them in one or two important respects. 1885E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 3) III. 275/2 Considering the wild and independent life the Povindahs lead, they are marvellously orderly and well-behaved when dispersed in British territory, travelling from one end of India to another. 1888H. G. Raverty Notes on Afghánistán 489 The Náṣirs or Náṣirís, as they are also called, are about the most numerous of the Powandah tribes, and possess no land whatever of their own. 1895[see Mahsud]. 1920Blackw. Mag. Oct. 445/1 Your car is halted at the boat bridge, to let the long Afghan powindah caravans pass. Ibid. 445/2 The powindahs are more often armed, each man's belt crammed with cartridges. 1934Ahmad & Aziz Afghanistan iii. 17 The Gomal pass..is much used by Povindahs on their annual migration to their winter encampments on the Indus. 1953J. Masters Lotus & Wind xii. 158 The man..was a Powindah horsetrader... When the Pushtu greetings were at last out of the way the Powindah said, ‘Let us retire.’ 1967A. Swinson N.-W. Frontier v. 104 Now the Powindahs..are great clans of warrior merchants, Ghilzais and Kharotis as well as Powindahs proper. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 169/1 A number of nomads (pāvendehs) cross the eastern frontier with their herds toward their summer pastures in Pakistan. 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xi. 177 They were only Powindahs—wandering, gipsy-like folk who live in tents and are always on the move. |