1 BILOCH, PATHAN, AND ALLIED RACES. 41
2 lay in having the classification made on the spot. The system adopted was as follow?. Each
3 Deputy Commissioner drew up a list of the tribes and clans for which he wished to obtain
4 separate figures for his own district. Of this list he sent copies to all the other districts concern-
5 ed. A joint list was then drawn up including all tribci or clans mentioned in any one of
6 these district lists, and the figures were tabulated in accordance mth that joint li^t. The Biloch
7 tribal figures were then compiled on the s^wt in the two Derahs and Muzaffargarh, and those for
8 Pathaus in the Peshawar Divi-ion, Derah Ismail Khau, and Banna. For other districts and for
9 Native States tlie figures were compiled to the best of our ability in tlie Central Office in accordance
10 with the joint li:>t already mentioned.
11 THE BILOCH (CASTE No. 18).
12 375. Meaning of Biloch —Bibliography.' —The word Biloch is variously used in th»
13 Pan jab to denote the following people ; — •
14 (1) The Biloch proper, a nation which trace> iU origin from the direction of Makran, and
15 now holds the lower Sulemans ;
16 (2) A criminal tribe settled in the great jungles below Tlianesar ;
17 (3) Any Jfusalmau cameliiian except in the extreme east and the extreme west of the
18 Panjab ;
19 (4) A small Pathau tribe of Derab Ismail Khan, more properly called Baluch.
20 The criminal tribe will be described undtr vagrant and gispy tribes. It Is almost certainly of
21 true Biloch stock. The Pallian tribe will be noticed under the Pattiaus of Derah Ismail. It also
22 is in all probability a -.mall body of true Biloches wlio have become affiliated to the Pathans.
23 Our figures tor the must part refer to the true Biloch of tlie lower frontier and to their reprcsen*
24 tatives who are scattered throughout the Panjab. But in tlie upper grazing grounds of the
25 Western Plains the Bilocli settlers have taken to tlie grazing and breeding of camels rather than
26 to husbandry ; and thus the word Biloch has become a-sociatcd with the care of camels, insomuch
27 that throughout the Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Amritsar, and Jalandhar divisions, the word
28 Biloch is u-cd for any Musalman camelman whatever be his caste, every Biloch being supposed to
29 be a camelman and every Mahomedan camelman to be a Biloch. In Sirsa we have Punwar
30 Rajputs from llultan who are known a~ Biloch because they keep camels, and several Deputy
31 Commissioners recommended that Untwal, Sarbiin, and Biloch should be taken together as one
32 caste. The headmen of tliese people are called Malik, and I have classed some five hundi'ed
33 Musalmans who returned themselves under this name, chietly in the Lahore division, as Biloch.
34 It is impossible to say how many of the men returned a- Biloch because they keep camels are of true
35 Biloch origin. Settlements of Biloche^ proper are, excluding the Jlultiln and Derajat divisions,
36 and Shahpur, reported in Dehli, Gm'gaon, Karntil, His-^r, Rohtak, Liidhiaua, Amritsar, Gujran-
37 wala, Pi'rozpur, and Rawalpindi ; but in all the>e districts except the first five tlie word is used for
38 camelmen aUo, and the figures cannot be separated.
39 Bibliography. — The following books will be found to contain information regarding the
40 Biloch nation ; Hughes' Bilochistdn, a useful compilation of perhaps somewhat doubtful authority ;
41 Brace's Memorandioit on the Derah Ohdzi District (Panjiib Selections, IX, 1S71) chiefly
42 statistical, and by uo means free from error; Douie's Bilochi iVfimaJ translated ; and Dames'
43 Biloch Vocabulary (•/. A. H. B., 1S80), both including collections of Bilochi folklore; Pottinger's
44 Traeels ill Bilochistdn and Sindh aud'il&ssoxis' TvA\els i\i the same countries. Fryers' Settle-
45 ment Report of Derah Ghdz! Kfidn and ^aegregor'a Qazetteer of the N. W. Frontier give
46 most valuable accounts of tlie Ciloch tribes ; while the Settlement Reports of those other districts
47 in which Biloches are found in any numbers contain much useful information.
48 376. Description of tlie BilocIl. — The Biloch presents iu many respects
49 a very strong contrast with his neighbour the Pathau. The political organi-
50 sation of each is tribal ; but while the one yields a very large measare of
51 obedience to a chief who is a sort of limited monarch, the other recognises no
52 authority save that of a coancil of the tribe. Both have most of the virtues and
53 many of the vices peculiar to a wild and semi-civilised life. To both hospitality
54 ' I had, with the valuable assistance of Mr. Douie, written a far more complete account of the
55 Biloch than that given in the following pages. But after Mr. Douie had left India and
56 many of my notes had been destroyed, a gi-eat part of the MS. was lost in the office ; and I had to
57 rewrite it as be~t I could with very incomplete materials, and a very short time in which to
58 complete it.