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48 THE BALOCH BACE
Chandko along the Indus, just where the Panjab and Sindh
meet. The Hots pressed northwards, and settled with the
Dodais at Dera Ismail Khan, which they held for two
hundred years, until deprived of it by Pathans ; and the
Kulachls founded the town which bears their name near
by. It now belongs to the Gandapur Afghans, but the
Kulachls still inhabit the countryside. The Jistkanis,
as has been seen, settled in the sandy waste of the central
Sindh- Sagar Doab, and south of them the Mirrani Dodais,
who were also Nawabs of Dera Ghazi Khan till the time of
Nadir Shah. Mazaris are still found at Chatta Bakhsha
in Jhang. The Kinds are in large numbers in the districts
of Multan, Jhang, Muzafargarh, Montgomery, and Shahpur ;
the Jatois and Koriiis are spread over the same districts,
while the Gopangs and Gurmams are concentrated in
Muzafargarh. These represent the descendants of the
tribes which followed Mir Chakur, but others stayed behind,
and some are said to have turned back from Tulumba in
Multan and recrossed the Indus, wishing to keep near the
mountains. Chakur is said to have incited the Dodais to
attack the tribes that refused to follow him, and this war
is also the subject of many ballads. The tribes which
remained on the right bank of the Indus are those which
have retained their language and their tribal constitution,
while the rest have in varying degrees become assimilated
to their Jatt and Eajput neighbours ; and as those who
speak BalochI say :
' Those who followed Chakur have
become Jatts, while those who stayed behind have remained
Baloches.' And this also explains the prominence obtained
by the Binds. The Hots, Jatois, and Korais passed on,
and their descendants are found scattered, as I have already
stated. Most of the Lasharis stayed behind in Mekran or
Kachhi. But the organized tumans, which remain to the
present day in the Sulaimans and the Derajat—viz., the
Marri,
Bughti (including Shambani),
Mazari,