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Before 1849
Durrani suzerainty and local autonomy
درانی عہد اور مقامی خودمختاری
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The hill tracts stand largely outside effective imperial administration, with authority resting in section assemblies and local custom.
Sources for this period are thin and mostly external: Persian chronicles, later gazetteer reconstructions and oral tradition. POHAN catalogues them as context rather than as documentary record, and marks inferences accordingly.
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