:Doaba Daudzai Tehsil
The Doaba Daudzai Tehsil was a tehsil administrative division in Peshawar District, Peshawar Division, Punjab Province, British India 1872–1893.{{cite book|author=Sir William Wilson Hunter|title=The imperial gazetteer of India [by] W.W. Hunter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4kIAAAAQAAJ|year=1881}} As of 1891, it was one of the 128 tehsils in the province.{{cite book|author=India. Census Commissioner|title=Census of India, 1901|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRtYAAAAYAAJ|volume=17|year=1902|page=2}} Gholam Muhayuddin Khan served as tehsildar of the Doaba Daudzai tehsil.{{cite book|author1=William Henry Paget|author2=A. H. Mason|title=Tribes of the North-West Frontier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7otEAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Gian Publications|page=224}}{{cite book|author1=Sir Robert Warburton|author2=Mary Cecil Warburton (Lady.)|title=Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879–1898|url=https://archive.org/details/eighteenyearsin00warbgoog|year=1900|publisher=J. Murray|page=[https://archive.org/details/eighteenyearsin00warbgoog/page/n87 59]}}{{cite book|author=Charles James Longman|title=Longman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2jOAAAAMAAJ|volume=5|year=1885|publisher=Longmans, Green and Company|page=384}} The areas of the erstwhile Doaba Daudzai tehsil are today part of Pakistan.
Geography
The Doaba Daudzai tehsil included 159 villages and had an area of 182 square miles. As of 1868 the estimated population of area had been 72,676. The tehsil included the tongue of land lying between the Kabul and Swat rivers above their junction, as well as a piece of land south of the Kabul river. Overall, the lands were fertile with plenty of water supply for agriculture.
Foundation
The tehsil was founded on 1 April 1872, as the tehsils of Peshawar District were reorganized to create a more balanced distribution of the population between them.{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Peshawar District, 1897–98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAJuAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|pages=89–90}} Before the creation of the Doaba Daudzai tehsil, Doaba and Daudzai had been two separate tehsils with 53 and 127 villages respectively. With the re-districting of 1872, twenty villages from Daudzai tehsil were transferred to the Nowshera tehsil, and one village of Doaba tehsil (Shahi Kulali) was transferred to the Hashtnagar tehsil.
Zails and tribes
The Doaba Daudzai tehsil was divided into six zails; Matta (14 villages), Gulbela (60 villages), Ambadher (22 villages), Shah Alam (11 villages), Charpariza (23 villages) and Daudzai (27 villages).{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Dera Ghazi Khan District: 1883|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA47|year=1883|pages=162, 277–278, 290}} All of these zails were dominated by Pathan tribes. The Gigyani tribe was prominent in the Matta and Ambadher zails. The Daudzai tribe was prominent in the zails of Gulbela, Shah Alam, Charpariza and Daudzai. The Sulaimanzai tribe was prominent in the Ambadher zail. The Bahlolzai was prominent in the Gulbela zail. There was also a certain Mohmand presence in Gulbela zail.
Towns
Mafis
There were 329 {{Transliteration|ps|mafis}} (grants of lands free of revenue) linked to mosques in the tehsil.{{cite book|author=Eric Stokes|title=The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9DU5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA294|date=3 July 1980|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-29770-7|page=294}} Covering a combined area of 528 acres, none of the mosque {{Transliteration|ps|mafis}} extended more than 10 acres. There were also 6 Hindu {{Transliteration|ps|mafis}}, granted by Sikh rulers for an extended period of time.
Abolition
The Doaba Daudzai tehsil was abolished as per the Punjab Gazette Notifications 379 and 380, issued on 13 May 1893.{{cite book|title=Report on the Land Revenue Administration of the Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5s-AQAAMAAJ|year=1894|page=41}} The areas of the erstwhile Doaba Daudzai tehsil were divided between the Peshawar and Charsadda tehsils.