Jadoon
Pashtun tribe
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::summary Pashtun tribe ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| native_name | |
| region1 | Hazara region |
| pop1 | Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra |
| languages | Pashto, Hindko |
| religions | Islam 20x20px |
| related_groups | PashtunsHazarewal |
| :: |
| group = | native_name = | image = | caption = | population = | region1 = Hazara region | pop1 = Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra | region2 = | pop2 = | languages = Pashto, Hindko | religions = Islam 20x20px | related_groups = PashtunsHazarewal | footnotes = ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Jadoon_tribal_elder.png" caption="A member of the Jadoon tribe in traditional dress, 1951"] ::
The Jadoon, also known as Gadoon or Jadun (; Hindko: جدون) is a Pashtun tribe primarily residing in the Hazara and Kohistan regions as well as in the southern slopes of Mahaban mountains, called the Gadoon area in the Swabi district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Some members of the tribe also live in Nangarhar and Kunar in Afghanistan.
History
A small section of the Jadoon tribeusing the ethnonym Gadunspeaks Pashto, but the rest of the tribe in the Hazara region has been assimilated into the Hindkowan Hazarewal community and speaks Hindko. According to the historian Ĭuriĭ Vladimirovich Gankovskiĭ (Yuri V. Gankovskiy), professor of Pakistan Studies at Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, the Jadoons were a tribe of Indo-Aryan origin that were assimilated by the Kakar.
Genetics
Y haplogroup and mtdna haplogroup samples were taken from Jadoon, Yusufzai, Sayyid, Gurjar and Tanoli men living in Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Jadoon men are of predominantly East Asian paternal ancestry with West Eurasian maternal ancestry and a lesser amount of South Asian maternal ancestry according to a Y and mtdna haplogroup test indicating local females were marrying immigrant males during the medieval period. Y Haplogroup O3-M122 makes up the majority of Jadoon men, the same haplogroup carried by the majority (50-60%) of the Han Chinese. 82.5% of Jadoon men carry Q-MEH2 and O3-M122, which are both of East Asian origin. O3-M122 was absent in the Sayyid population and appeared in low numbers among Tanolis, Gurjars and Yusufzais. There appears to be founder effect in the O3-M122 among the Jadoon. 76.32% of Jadoon men carry O3-M122 while 0.75% of Tanolis, 0.81% of Gurjars and 2.82% of Yusufzais carry O3-M122.
56.25% of Jadoons in another test were found to carry West Eurasian maternal Haplogroup H (mtDNA). Dental morphology of the Swabi Jadoons was also analyzed and compared to other groups in the region like Yusufzais and Sayyids.
People
- Amanullah Khan Jadoon, former MPA and Federal Minister
- Iqbal Khan Jadoon, former governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Amira Jadoon, professor, Clemson University, United States
References
- Tazkara Sarfaroshan e Sarhad by Muhammad Shafi Sabir.
- "The Jadoons" by Sultan Khan Jadoon (2001).
- Sir Olaf Caroe, (1958) The Pathans.
- Afghan by Muhammad Asif Fitrat
- Karwan-e-Jadoon
References
- History of Pashtuns ''[https://historyofpashtuns.blogspot.com/2015/01/jadoon-gadoon-tribe.html Jadoon/Gadoon tribe]'' January 2015
- Hemphill, Brian E.. (2023). "Population Dynamics among Ethnic Groups Residing in Hazarewal and Chitral-Gilgit-Baltistan". [[University of Peshawar]].
- Jadoon, Sultan. ''[https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The%20Jadoons/pGestAEACAAJ?hl=en "The Jadoons"]'', 2017.
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- Sir [[Olaf Caroe]], a [[British Raj]]-era administrator of the [[North-West Frontier Province. NWFP]], counts the Jadoon tribe under the [[Panni (Pashtun tribe). Panni sub-division]] in the genealogy of the Gharghasht in his book ''The Pathans''.Caroe, Olaf (1958) ''The Pathans: 550 B.C. – A.D. 1957''. [[Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan & Co.]] p. 19. {{ISBN. 978-0710-30682-1
- Gankovskiy, Yuri Vladimirovich. (1971). "The Peoples of Pakistan: An Ethnic History". [[Nauka (publisher).
- (2022). "Contrasting maternal and paternal genetic histories among five ethnic groups from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan". Scientific Reports.
- Tariq, Muhammad. (2017). "Genetic Analysis of the Major Tribes of Buner and Swabi Areas through Dental Morphology and DNA Analysis". Hazara University, Mansehra.
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- (June 24, 2016). "HVSI polymorphism indicates multiple origins of mtDNA in the Hazarewal population of Northern Pakistan". Department of Genetics, Hazara University, Garden Campus, Mansehra, Pakistan.
- (25 March 2021). "Identification of Genetic Lineage of Peshawar and Nowshera Tribes through Dental Morphology". Zoological Society of Pakistan.
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