Religious Scholars
Mulla Powinda
A religious figure whose authority among the Mahsud sections shaped three decades of frontier politics. British Political Agent correspondence between 1894 and 1913 repeatedly names him as the decisive voice behind tribal assemblies, and his death in 1913 is treated in official reports as a turning point in the administration of the Mahsud tracts.
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A religious figure whose authority among the Mahsud sections shaped three decades of frontier politics. British Political Agent correspondence between 1894 and 1913 repeatedly names him as the decisive voice behind tribal assemblies, and his death in 1913 is treated in official reports as a turning point in the administration of the Mahsud tracts.
Sources
- 1.Mizh — Evelyn Howell, pp. 23–45Government of India Press, 1931
- 2.Political Agent South Waziristan, confidential file 14/1913Provincial Archives, Peshawar