The JADOONS (GADUNS)

The JADOONS (GADUNS)

A tribe of Pathan, who resides partly on the
southern slopes of Mahaban Mountains, called
Gadoon Area in district Swabi of Mardan division and
partly in Abbottabad and Haripur districts of Hazara
Division of the NWFP Province of Pakistan.
The Jadoons have descended from Ashraf
alias Jadoon (Gadoon) of Panni (Parnai, Parney) clan
of Ghurghusht Afghan. Panni, Kakar, Naghar (also
called Nahar and Naghaz) and Dawi were four sons
of Daney (Danai), son of Ismail alias Ghurghusht.
As stated by Raverty, Ghurghusht was merely
a nick or by-name. The real name of Ghurghusht was
Ismail, and the reason of his obtaining this by-name
was thus explained in the “Khulasat-ul-Ansab” as
referred by Raverty, “He from his childhood was of a
cheerful, frolicsome disposition, and fond of play than
work. When he became older, his parents would
chide him and say, “Art thou going to spend all the
days in this Ghurghusht”. These words in the Pushto
language mean leaping and jumping, playing and
roaming as is the custom of children and thus these
words applied to Ismail as a nickname.
_____ The people of this tribe call themselves
Jadoons, but Eastern Afghans who change the letter
S’h into K’h and “J” into “G” style them Gaduns as
letter J ( ) and G ( ) are interchangeable
in Pushto language, just like Jillani and Gillani are
synonyms. Hence this tribe in the Peshawar valley is
called Gadoon. Persians style them as Jzadoon ( )

Regarding the descent of the Jadoon tribe, Raverty
says,
“ The descent of the Jadoon Afghan,
called Gaduns by the tribes of Peshawar
valley, who change the original letter
“Jz” into “G” is well known to those who
are acquainted with genealogy of the
Pushtanah or Afghan nation, and who
do not seek to produce them out of
Hindus. They are not ”Yusufzaies” like
those around them, truly and certainly
are not a branch of Kakar Tribe