Chapter GHAUT to GHILZAI of G by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

great majority of the tribe are pastoral in their habits of life, and migrate with the seasons from the lowlands to the highlands with their families and flocks, and easily portable black hair tents. They never settle in the cities, nor do they engage in the ordinary handicraft trades, but they manufacture carpets, felts, &c., for domestic use, from the wool and hair of their cattle.…Physically they are a remarkably fine race…but they are a very barbarous people, the pastoral class especially, and in their wars excessively savage and vindictive.

“Several of the Ghilji or Ghilzai-clans are almost wholly engaged in the carrying trade between India and Afghanistan, and the Northern States of Central Asia, and have been so for many centuries.”—Races of Afghanistan, by Bellew, p. 103.