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A HISTORICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL SKETCH 53
was probably caused by the Seljuq invasion, and that the
further advance eastwards was due to the pressure of Changiz
Khan's conquests.
5. That the final move into the Indus Valley took place
during the period of unrest and disruption of governments
which followed on Taimur's conquests, and that it syn-
chronized with the invasions of India by Babar and the
Arghuns.
It may be added that the Baloch settlement in Sindh
and the South- West Panjab has profoundly affected the
mass of the population beyond the limits of the tribes
which are nominally Baloch. Traces of Baloch blood are
frequently met with among the Jats and Rajputs, who are
Musalman by religion ; and not only among them, but
even among the commercial Hindu population in the
Trans-Indus tracts, where Baloch features are strikingly
common in Aroras of the villages and smaller towns.
In Appendix I. I give a list of the clans, or bolaks,
mentioned in the early heroic poems, with some notes as
to their present distribution, and also of the more im-
portant tribes not so mentioned.
Appendix II. contains a list of the organized tumans
now existing, with the clans of which they are made up,
and, in some cases, the phallis or septs also.
Appendix III. consists of genealogies derived from the
legends, and from verbal statements of Baloches who are
reputed among their people to have a good knowledge of
such matters. My principal authorities have been Ghulam
Muhammad, Balachanl Mazari, of Rojhan ; Baga, Shalamani
Lashari (Gurchanl), of the Sham ; and Ahmad Khan
Ludhiani, Gadharoani Lund, of Rohrl. The Marri pedigree
is abstracted from the very full tree given by Colonel
0. T. Duke in his ' Beport on Thal-Chotiali and Harnai
(Calcutta : Foreign Department Press, 1883). Pedigrees of
the descent of the Talpur Amirs of Sindh from the Leghari
Talpurs will be found in Eastwick's ' Dry Leaves from
Young Egypt,' London, 1851.