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THE BALOCH RACE<br />
and Lasharis among the Gurchanis, the Ghulamanis among<br />
the Bozdars, the Shambanis among the Bughtis, and the<br />
Mazaranis among the Marris. These subtumans are very<br />
independent, and not so obedient to their Tumandars as<br />
the ordinary clans. In many tumans one section, either<br />
clan or phalli, is found which has a hereditary feud with<br />
the chief, and is in habitual opposition to him. The<br />
Jindanis among the Khosas, the Haibatanis among the<br />
Legharis, and the Mistakanls among the Mazaris are<br />
examples of this. In spite of this, however, the general<br />
feeling in a Baloch tribe is in favour of supporting the<br />
chief's authority, and if he is a moderately good man<br />
according to the Baloch standard, just, generous, and of<br />
an even temper, he can generally enforce it without much<br />
difficulty. What a really able and straightforward man<br />
can do is shown by the history of Nawab Sir Imam Bakhsh<br />
Khan, K.C.I.E., the Tumandar of the Mazaris, a tribe<br />
formerly considered irreclaimable robbers and pirates on<br />
the Indus who have now settled into a law-abiding and<br />
loyal tribe, and over whom he still successfully presides,<br />
though blind and eighty years of age. 1<br />
The Baloches are nomads by instinct, and still prefer<br />
the wandering and pastoral life wherever it is possible, but<br />
the population tends more and more to become fixed as<br />
cultivation extends. But town life does not suit them, and<br />
although the Tumandar has in every case a fixed residence,<br />
it never becomes the nucleus of a Baloch town. Where<br />
the chief has selected an already existing town with a non-<br />
Baloch population of Hindu traders and Indian Mohammedan<br />
artizans, this population continues much as it was<br />
before. Few Baloches live in the towns ; they prefer the<br />
open country. Their villages are collections of mud or<br />
stone huts, and in the mountains, where the population is<br />
still nomadic, a village or lialk consists of a number of little<br />
enclosures 3 or 4 feet high, built of loose stones. On<br />
1 I regret to have to state that Sir Imam Bakhsh Khan has died<br />
since the above remarks were written.
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