DEHRAJAT, a revenue division of the Panjab, lying between lat. 28° 27' and 33° 15' N., and long. 69° 35' and 72° 2' E. ; arca, 15,007 square miles, and population 991,251 in 1868. It com prises the districts of Debra Ghazi Khan, Debra Ismail Khan, and Bunnu. It is on the right bank of the Indus, below tho Salt Range, and to the point where that river is joined by the waters of the Panjab. It comprises about two-thirds of the narrow strip of land which lies between tho Indus and the Suliman mountains, and extends from the hills and valleys of the Kohat district to the Sind frontier. The lower part bears-the local name of Sind from bordering on the Indus, and the upper that of Daman, or skirt, from its bordering on the Suliman mountains. The country is flat and in many places fertile, but to the westward of the river there a.re no wells. A fringe of cultivation and jungle extends along the bank of the great river and terminates, as you advance into the . .
intenor, in a flat desert country, where a precarious supply of water from the hills affords a poor cultivation in the vicinity of the thinly scattered villages. The Tank chief is a Pathan of good family. The nawab of Dehra Ismail Khan belongs to the princely Saddozai race. South of Debra Ismail Khan lies the large tract of Debra Ghazi IChan, which extends as far west as the mountains and along the Indus to Sind. Its principal chiefs
usually behaved well, even at times when their brethren of the bills were in a stath of hostility against British subjects. Tho plain tribes are the Nutkani, Lund, and Dresbuk, all of them well conducted ; they had a certain number of fighting men, but they were long victimized by the Bozdar and Gurchani.
The Deltra Ghazi Khan district has the Dresbuk and Mazari.
Adjoining the frontier of Debra Ghazi Khan district are the Khutran, Kosa, Lagbari, Gurchani, Murri, and Bugti.
Debra Ismail Khan district, Bunnuchi, Mur wati, Butani chiefs of Tank, chiefs of Kolachc, chiefs of Debra Ismail Khan, Nutkani, Lund.
Adjoining. frontier of Debra Ismail Khan district are Sheorani, Oosterani, Kusrani, Bozdar.
Adjoining frontier of Kohat district, Ituzoti, Sipah, Orakzai, Zymoosht Afghans, Tun.
Adjoining frontier of Kohat and Debra Istnail Khan district, Waziri.
The tribes, from north to south, of the Dehrajat frontier come in the following order :— Pathan tribes— Baluchi—Kusrani.
Ahmadzai, Waziri. Utmanzai, „ Baluch tribes— Mahsud, Bozdar. Laghari.
Butani. Lund. Gurcbani.
Sheorani. Kosa. Mazari.
Usteranah.
—Papers, East India (Caul and Afghanistan), 1859 ; Elphinstone's Caubul ; The Derajat, or Hist. of the Panjab ; Aitcheson's Treaties.