Lodi (Pashtun tribe)
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Lodhi (Pashto: لودهی) is a Pashtun tribe of the Bettani Pashtun confederacy.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> It consists of a number of sub-tribes, most of which are settled in the Tank, Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with smaller population found in Punjab and Azad Kashmir.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> These tribes were nomadic for most of their history and migrated to their present-day locations by crossing the Gomal Pass throughout different times.<ref name=":0" />
Two sub-tribes among the Lodhi established their own empires: the Sur tribe established the Sur dynasty<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the Prangi tribe established the Lodhi dynasty.<ref name=":0" />
Historical mentions
Lohani
Lohani, also known as Nuhani, is the largest sub-group among the Lodi tribe.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Lohani migrated and crossed the Gomal Pass en masse during the late 1500s, into present-day Lodi territory, and displaced other Lodi tribes such as Sur and Prangi that had settled in the region in prior times.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref> Other Lohani tribes had also made earlier deeper incursions into India, as far as Bihar, and settled therein during the days of the Lodi dynasty.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
The earliest mention of the Lohani tribes comes in the form of an inscription written on a tablet from 1496 in Bihar during the days of the Lodi dynasty.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref> The inscription records the construction of a certain gate by Darya Khan Nuhani who is thereafter mentioned as one of the ''governors of the kingdom". The Lohani tribes were also mentioned by the Mughal Emperor Babur in his memoirs, the Baburnama, as Nuhani Afghans around 1529.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite book</ref> The earliest records mentions them as Nuhani rather than Lohani, which is the primary designation by which they are currently known today.
Sur and Niazi
When Babur passed from Bangash territory into Bannu in the early 16th century, he recorded that the plain was cultivated by several Afghan tribes, including the Sur and the Niazi.<ref name=":3" /> This early reference places the Sur and the Niazi tribes among the established tribal communities of the region in Babur’s time.