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| Nawab Khwaja Muhammad Khan Khattak , the Khan of Teri, along with his son, 1868. From Watson and Kaye collection. Source |
Teri was not a "Princely state" of British India as believed and asserted by some people on internet. The five Princely states of North-west Frontier States Agency were Swat, Dir, Amb, Chital and Phulra.
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| Nawab Abdul Ghafur Khan (1849-1915), the Khan of Teri estate ( Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), 1909. Photo taken in Dak Bungalow near Cavagnari House (Commissioner House) in Kohat. Source |
According to Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908):- "Teri Tahsil of Kohat District, North-West Frontier Province, with an area of 1,616 square miles. The population was 94,363 in 1901, and 85,460 in 1891. The tahsil contains 166 villages, its head- quarters being at a village of the same name. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 95,000. Teri is inhabited by the Khattak tribe of Pathans, whose present chief, Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafur Khan, Khan of Teri, holds the whole tahsil in jagir at a quit-rent of Rs. 20,000 in perpetuity "
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