1 44 tANJAB CASTES.
2 the Mazai'i and Drisliak, who trace their descent from Hot, claim to _ belong
3 to the Rind section. Some five hundred years after their settlement in Kech
4 Makran, tlie Rind, Lashilri, and Jatoi moved northwards into the country
5 about Kelat, to the west of tiie lower Sulem^ns, " the Rind settling- in Shoriin,
6 " the Lashilri in Gandava, and the Jatoi in Sevi and Dhadon, while the Khosa
7 "remained in Kech and the Hot in ■Makran."' They are said to have dis-
8 possessed and driven into Slndh a Jat people, ruled over by a Hindu^ prince
9 with the Sindhi title of J^m and the name of Nindiiva, whose capital was
10 at Kelat. After a time the charms of a woman led to jealousy between the
11 nephews o f Mir Chfikar and Mir G-wahr<1m Khan, the Chiefs of the Rind
12 and Lashari sections. Their claims were to be deeided by a horse-race held
13 in Rind Territory, in which the hosts loosened the girth of their rival's saddle.
14 A fight resulted, and the Rind, who were at first worsted, called to their aid
15 Sultan Hiisen," King of Khor^sfin, and drove the Lashdrl o\;t into HaidarSbad
16 and Tatta in Sindh, where they no longer exist as an individual tribe._ From
17 this event the Biloches date the growth of their present tribal organisation ;
18 and as there is now no localised tribe bearing the name of Rind, and as alrnost
19 all the great tribes of our frontier claim to be of Rind extraction, it is
20 probable that the Rind, left sole possessors of the hill country of Kelat (for
21 the Jatoi also consider themselves as belonging to the Rind section of the
22 nation), gradually split up into the tribes which we now find on the Derah
23 Ghazi border. Several of these tribes have talcen their names from the locali-
24 ties which they now hold, which shows that their names are not older than
25 their occupation of their present territories.''
26 379. Advance of the Biloches into tlie Panjab.— The Biloches had thus
27 spread as far north as the Boliln ; Init apparently they had not yet encroached
28 upon the Sulemiin range which lay to the cast of them, and which was held
29 bv Pathans, while a Jat population occupied the valley of the Indus and the
30 country between the Suleinfins and the river. But about the middle of the
31 15th century, the Turks or ^Nlughals under their Arghun leader invaded
32 Kachhi and' Sindh, and twice took Sibi, in 1179 and in 1511 A.J). About
33 the same time the Brahoi, a tribe believed to be of Dravidian origin,* and
34 who appear to have followed in their tracks, drove the the Biloeh out of the
35 fertile valley of Kelat and established a supremacy over their northern tribes.
36 Yielding to the pressure thus put upon them, the Kelat tribes moved east-
37 wards into the lower Sulem^ns^ driving the Pathans before them along the
38 ' Shordn is probably auotlier reading of Sara wan, tl>e country between Quetta and KeUt ;
39 Gaudava is on the northern frontier of t-iudli, sontli-east of Sarawan; Sevi and Dhadon are
40 doubtless other forms of Sibi and Uadar, north of Gaudava and south-cast of Quetta.
41 2 This name should fix the date of the contest; but 1 have been nnable to identify the
42 sovereign in question, who is also described as Sultan Shah Huseu, King of Persia. Mi'r Chakar
43 lived in the time of Humayun, about the middle of the 16th centviry ; but it is probable that these
44 events took place at least two centuries earlier. Mi'r Chakar and Mi'v Gwahram are renowned in
45 Biloch story as the national heroes, and it is not unnatural that any great event should be referred
46 to them.
47 3 When the name applies to a tract, the tract may have been called after the tribe; but where
48 the name belougs to a mountain, rivei; or other natural feature, the converse seems more
49 probable.
50 ■" It is thought probable by some that the Brahoi language will be found, when we learn more
51 about it, to be Iranian and not Dravidian.
52 5 One account postpones the occupation of the lower Sulemans by Biloches to the expedition
53 with Humayun to be mentioned presently. It is true that about the time of Humayiin's conquest
54 of India the Pathans of the Derah Ismail frontier were at their weakest, as wUl be explained
55 when those tribes come under discussion. But it is also true that there is a tendency to refer all
56 past events to the time of any famous incident, such as the march to Dehli with Humayun.