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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,
A HISTORICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL SKETCH 49 Drlshak, Lund (two tumans), Leghari, Khosa, Nutkani, Bozdar, Kasrani — are mainly Einds ; — is while one—viz., the Gurchani Dodal, with Eind and Lashari clans attached to it. Of the tribes in Kachhl and Northern Sindh, the following are Einds Eind (of Shoran), including the Ghulam Bolak of Sibi, Dombki, Umarani, Khosa, Chandya. The MaghassI are Lasharis, the BuledJd (or Burdi) a separate Baloch stem, and the Jakrani assimilated Jatt; the Kahhi, possibly Sayyids by origin, also now assimilated. The Buledhi seem to have accompanied the Einds into the Sulaiman Hills ; and there the country, now occupied in part by Harris, Bughtis, and Gurchanis, was long a bone of contention between them and the Gorgezh Einds, and probably the Kalmati, too. The struggle between Gorgezh and Buledhi forms the subject of song and legend. 1 After they were expelled from the hills they settled near the Indus, where they had many wars with the Mazari Einds. Their country is known as Burdika. One of the songs attributed to Balach Gorgezh in his war with the Buledhis is worth quoting, as it expresses the very spirit of the Baloch of the mountains : * The mountains are the Baloches' forts ; these hills are better than an army. The lofty heights are our comrades, the pathless gorges our friends. Our drink is from the flowing springs, our cups the leaf of the phish, our beds 1 See the story of ' Balach and the Buledhis in Folklore,' 1893, p. 200. 4
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Page 56 and 57: 46 THE BALOCH RACE the Chenab, the
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Page 62 and 63: 52 THE BALOCH RACE It is, however,
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Page 66 and 67: 56 THE BALOCH RAGE a ballad as one
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Page 92 and 93: 82 THE BALOCH RACE IX. The Pedigree
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Page 96 and 97: 86 THE BALOCH RACE III. HISTORY. El
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