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The mobster who bails the protagonist of Shantaram out of prison is based on a don of this ethnicity whose gang killed Dawood Ibrahim’s brother. A pacifist (-5[1])“red-shirted” movement of this ethnicity opposed the partition of India under the leadership of an activist nicknamed the “Sarhadi,” (15[1])or “Frontier” Gandhi. A Rabindranath (15[1])Tagore story about a fruit seller depicts Kolkata’s (15[1])community of this ethnicity, (-5[1])who are known by a name (-5[1])following their nation’s capital with the suffix (*) “wala.” This ethnicity’s (-5[1])largest (-5[2])diaspora (-5[1])in India (10[1])inhabit Uttar Pradesh’s Rohilkhand region. This was the ethnicity of the assassin who killed Viceroy of India (-5[1])Lord Mayo, Sher (-5[1])Ali Afridi. This ethnicity addressed the partition with a 1947 loya jirga. The (10[1])Indian street (10[1])snack chapli (10[1])kebabs originate from this ethnicity’s Peshawari cuisine. For 10 points, (10[1])name this dominant tribal ethnic group of Afghanistan. ■END■ (10[7])

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