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46 THE BALOCH RACE
the Chenab, the Bavl, and the Satlaj, and the Dodais and
Hots up the Indus and the Jehlam. Babar found the
Baloches, as he states in his autobiography, as early as
a.d. 1519 at Bhera and Khushab ; and it may be inferred
that these were Dodais, for when Sher Shah arrived at
Khushab in a.d. 1546, in pursuit of Humayun, he was
met by the three sons of Sohrab Khan—viz., Ismail Khan,
Fath Khan, and Ghazi Khan—and he confirmed to them
the ' country of Sindh,' by which must be understood
Sindh in the local use of the word—that is, the lands lying
along the Indus, the Derajat, where these brothers had
formed settlements. 1 The three towns of Dera Isma'il
Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, and Dera Fath Khan still bear
their names, and Ghazi Khan's tomb is at the village of
Churatta, near Dera Ghazi Khan. The date is lost, but
it bears an inscription of Akbar's time. Ismail Khan had
to give up the lands belonging to a holy man named
Sheikh Bayazid Sarwani, of which he had been in posses-
sion since the time of the Langahs, and received in
exchange the pargana of Ninduna in the Ghakhar country. 2
In Akbar's time there are occasional notices of expedi-
tions against the Baloches. They do not seem to have
entered his military service as the Persians, Mughals, and
Afghans did, and Baloch names are conspicuous by their
absence in the list of mansabdars in the Ain-i-Akbari, in
which only one name occurs—viz., Pahar Khan Baloch,
commander of two hundred. Even this name is not
Balochi in origin.
After the Binds had left Kachhi the Lasharis seem to
have accompanied Shah Beg Arghun and his successor
Shah Husain in his wars against Jam Feroz, whom he
pursued towards Gujarat, as the legend represents them
as invading Gujarat, and afterwards returning to Kachhi
and obtaining a grant of Gundava from the king. The
1 Tarlkh-i-Sher Shahi, E. D., iv. 388.
2 The author of the ' Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi,' who records this, was
grandson of Sheikh Bayazid.