Tatur
The position of Tatur among the Lodi/Lohani tribes and the larger Bettani tribal confederacy.
Ethnicity	Pashtun
Location	Tank District, Frontier Region Tank
Parent tribe	Lohani, Lodi
Religion	Sunni Islam

Tatur, also known as Tator or Tatoor, is a small Pashtun tribe among the larger Lodi/Lohani tribe located in Tank District of Pakistan.^[1][2][3]

History

As a Lohani tribe, the Tatur have shared the same historical migration pattern as other Lohani, such as the Marwats, having historically been present primarily in Loya Paktia region, with their previous settlments in Paktika Province of Afghanistan, specifically the Katawaz area in Khairkot District, as well as a presence in Waziristan, before eventually settling in neighboring Tank District.^[2][4] In South Waziristan, a Lodi tribe known as the Dotani still exists, whereas Lohani and Lodi presence in Paktika has disappeared.^[4]

"Nothing is more remarkable throughout Waziristan than the traces of terraced fields which remain to show that once men grew corn where there is no tillage. In Waziristan anyhow local tradition is unanimous that it was in the days of the Marwats or the Urmars that, these lands were cultivated and mainly all the water channels of any size or length which still survive were cut."

The tribe was also mentioned by H. G. Raverty in his Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan book published in 1880 and was referred to as Tataur, Tutor, and Tutohr.^[5]

"Like others of the Nuhani tribe, the Tataurs made some figure in India. When Ahmad Khan Sur, a son of Sado, a grand-nephew of Sher Shah Sur, assumed sovereignty in the Panjab, with the title of Sikander Shah, after the defeat of Sultan Ibrahim in 962 H, and he had to submit to Akbar Badshah in 964 H (1557 A.D.), and asked to be permitted to retire into obscurity without having to present himself, and set out for Bangalah, then ruled by a Nuhani sovereign, he sent his son, Abd-ur-Rehman, to the Court, attended by one of his most trusted followers; and the person in question was Ghazi Khan, the Tataur."

"It is strange what has become of them in recent times; for I find, from the statement of, one district officer, that the whole of the Tataur clan consists of but “some sixty men” and yet they are said to live principally in the village of Tator [he means Tataur],” and some in two other villages, while the village of Tataur alone contains over a hundred male inhabitants of whom, probably, the majority are of this very clan."

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