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2 381. Tribal statistics. — Abstract No. 66 ou the next page* shows the figures
3 for the inaiii Blloch tribes. Abstract No. 67t gives those for minor tribes
4 for certain districts only, while Abstract No. 68i shows the principal clans.
5 The percentage of the Blloch population not included in these details
6 is small in the districts where the Eiloch element has any importance,
7 being only 9 per cent, in Derah Ghazi Khau, 13 per cent, in Derah
8 Ismail Khan, 15 per cent, in Muzaffargarh, and 19 per cent, in Multan.
9 In other districts it is much larger. As has already been explained, sec-
10 tions of the same name occur in different tribes; while a clan of one
11 tribe will bear the tribal name of another tribe. Thus, where the columns
12 for sub-divisions of caste have not been filled up with sufficient care,
13 errors in tabulation are almost unavoidable. For this reason the triljal and
14 clan figures were tabulated in the district oflices. Unfortunately, the Deputy
15 Commissioner of Derah Ghazi, from whom I had hoped for great assistance,
16 was so busy that he was unable to pay any attention to the matter; and one
17 or two of the results which the Derah Ghazi figtu'es give are patently absurd.
18 It is to he regretted that the opportunity wljich a Census affords only at long-
19 intervals of obtaining an accurate detail of the Ghazi tribes, should not have
20 been made the most of, The points in which the figures ai"e untrustworthy
21 are indicated below.
22 382. Tlie organised Biloch tribes of tlie Derajat.^It is only in Derah
23 Ghazi Khan and on its frontier that we have to do with Biloch tribes having
24 a distinct tribal and political organisation. Elsewhere in the Panjab the
25 tribal tie is merely that of ■common descent, and tJie tribe possesses no
26 corporate coherence. The Derah Ghazi tribes are in the main of Rind origin.
27 They are, beginning from the south, Mazaii, Bugti, ilan-i, Drishalc, Gurchani,
28 Tibbi Luud, Laghai-i, Khetran. Khosa, Sori Ijund, Bozdai', Qasrani, and
29 Nutkani ; and of these the ^laii'i, Bugti and Khetran are wholly, and the
30 Gurchani and the Leghari partly independent, whOe the Nutkani has recently
31 lost its inUviduality as a tribe. The figm-es for both the Lunds are certainly,
32 and those for the Gurchani possibly wrong, as is noted under the respective
33 tribes.
34 The Mazari (No. 11) are practically found only iu Derab Ghizi Kban. of wbicli they occupy
35 tbe sontberumoit portion, tbeir western boundary being the bills and their eastern the rirer. Their
36 country extends over tbe Sindb f rontii r into JacobabAd, and stretches northwards as far a* Umrkot
37 and the Pitok pass. Eojhan is their headquarters. They say that abont the middle of the 17tb
38 century they quarrelled with the Chandia of Sindb, and moved into the Siahaf valley and Marao
39 plain, and tbe bill country to the west now occupied by tbe Bugti ; but obtaining grants of land in
40 the. lowlands gradually shifted eastwards towards the river, ilr. Fryer puts their fighting strength
41 at 4,000, but our retuiTis show only 9,000 souls in the Province and there are very few beyond our
42 border, the Sharabani territory lying just behind it. The tribe traces its descent from Hot, son of
43 .Talal, and is divided into four clan^, Rustaraani, Masidaui, Balachani, and Sargani ; of which the
44 first two are the more numerous, though the chief is a Balachani.
45 Th3 Marri, and the Bugti or Zarkanni (No. 38) bold the country beyond our southern border;
46 and are wholly independent, or ra'her nominally snbject to the Khan of Kelat, not being found
47 within the Panjab. They are both of Rind origin. The ITarri, who hold a large area bounded by
48 the Khetran on the east, the Bugti on the south, Kacbhi of Kelat ou the west, and Afghanistan ou
49 the north, are the mo-t powerful and conseqiiently the most troublesome of all the Biloch tiibes.
50 They have four clans, the Ghazani, Loharani, ilazaraiji and Bijaraui, of which the Jlazarani live
51 beyond Sibi and the Bolan and are almost independent of the tribe. The tribe is wholly nomad and
52 prtedatory. Tbe Bugti, who occupy the angle between the frontiers of the Pan.iab and Upper
53 Sindb, are also called Zarkanni' and their clans are the Babeja, Xuthani, Musiiri, Kalpiir, Phong,
54 and Shambani or Kiazai. The last, which is an almost independent section, separates the main tribe
55 from our border; while the Marri lie still fui'ther west. Both these tribes are pure Rind.
56 ' A sept of their Baheja clan is also called Zarkanni,