1 BILOCH, PATHAN, AND ALLIED EACES. 53
2 The Drishak (No. 18) are the most scattered of all the Derah Gtazi tribes, many of their
3 village? lying among a Jat population on the bank of the Indus ; and this fact renders the tribe
4 less powerful than it should he from its numbers. They hold no portion of the hills »"d are
5 practically cDnfined to the Gliazi district, lying scatterel about between fhe Pitok pass on the north
6 and the Sori pass on the sout'i. The tribe belongs to the Rind section ; but claims descent from
7 Hot, son of Jalal Khan. Its sections are the Kirmiini, Slingwani, Gulfaz, Sargani, Arbani and
8 Jiskani, the chief belonging t^ the fii^t of the^e. Their headquarters are at Asui close to Rajanpur.
9 They are said to have descended into the plains after the Jlazari, or towards the end of the 17th
10 century.
11 The Gnrchani (No. 4) own the Mari and Dragal hills, and their boundary extends further into
12 the mountains than that of any other of the tribes subject to us ; while their territory does not
13 extend much to the ea=t of the Sulemans. They are divided into eleven clans, of which the chief
14 are the Divrkani, Shekhaui, Lashari, Petafi, Jiskani, and S ibzinl. The last four are true Biloches
15 and the last thr.?e Rinds ; the remainder of the tribe being said to have de5Cenled from Gorish, a
16 grandson of Raja Bhim=en of Haidarabad, who was adopted by the Biloche; and married among
17 them. He is said to have accompmioil Hnmayiin to Dehli, and on his return tj have collected a
18 Biloch foUowiflg and ej ctcd the Pathan hollci's from the present Gurchini holdings. It is not
19 impossible that a considerable number of the Lashari clan, who are not too proud of their affili-
20 ation to the Gurchani, may have returned themselves as Lashari simply, and so have been included
21 in the Lashari tribe. The whole of the Durkani and about half of the Lashari live beyond our
22 border, and are not subject to us save through their connection with tlie tribe. The latter is the most
23 turbulent of all the clau=, and they and the Petafl used to rival the Kho=a tribe in lawlessness of
24 conduct. They have lately been given fresh lands and are gradu;dly settling down. The Gurchaui
25 tribe is said to possess 2,600 fighting men. They are not found in any other part of the Panjab
26 than Derah Ghazi.
27 The Tibbi Lund (No. 8) are also wholly confined to the Ghazi district, where they occupy a
28 small area in the midst of the Gurchani country. Tliey are composed of Lunds, Rinds and Khosas,
29 all of true Kind origin, the Lund clan comprising some two-thirds of their whole numbers. These
30 three sections were only quite recently united under the authority of the Tibbi Lund tumanddr.
31 Unfortunately, the figures given for this tribe evidently include those of the Sori Lund mentioned
32 below.
33 The Laghari (No. 22) occupy the country from the Kiira pass, which is the Gurchani northern
34 border, to the Sakhi Sarwar pass a little to the north of Derah, which diviles them froin the Khosa.
35 They are of pure Rind origin and are divided into four sections, the Haldiani, Aliani, liughlani,
36 andHaibataui, of which the first inhabit the hiUs beyond oar border and are not subject to our rule,
37 and are, or were ia 1850, nomadic and inveterate thieves. The chief belongs to the Aliani clan.
38 Their head-quarters are at Chhoti Zenn, where they are said to have settled after their return from
39 accompanying Humaydn, expelling the Ahmadanis who then held the present Laghari country.
40 The tr;be numbers some 5,000 fighting men. They are also found in considerable numbers in
41 Derah Ismail and JIuzaffavgarh ; but these outlying settlements own no allegiance to the tribe.
42 The Talpiir dynasty of Sindh belonged to this trilje,^ and there is still a coniidcrable Lhghari
43 colony in that Proviuce. It appears probable that the representatives of several of the Northern
44 Biloch tribes which are now found in Sindh, are descended from people who went there during the
45 Talpiir rule.
46 383. The Khetran (No. 37) are an independent tribe living beyond our border at the back
47 of the Laghari, Khosa, and Luud country. Their original settlement was at Vahoa in the country
48 of the Qasrani of Derah Ismail Khan, where many of them still live and hold land between the
49 Qasraui and the river. But the Emperor Akbar drove out the main body of the tribe, and they
50 took refuge in the Barkhan valley of the Laghari hills, and stiU hold the surrounding tract and
51 look to the Laghari chief as their protoctir. They are certainly not pure Biloch, and are hcldby
52 66-71 many to be Pathans, de;cen:led from Miana (No.87 in the Palhan table of tribes, page 205\*
53 brother of Tarin, the ancestor of the Abdali ; and they do not in some cases intermarry with Pathans
54 But they confessedly resemble Biloches in features, habits, and general appearance, the names of
55 their septs end in 'the Bdoch patronymic termination dni, and they are now for .all practical pur-
56 poses a Biloch tribe. It is probable thai they are in reality a remnant of the original Jat popula-
57 tion J they speak a dialect of their own caUel Khotranki which is an Indian dialect closely allied
58 with Sindhi, and in fact probably a form of the Jatki speech of the lower Indus. They are the least
59 warlilie of all the Biloch tribes, capital cultivators, and in consequence exceedingly wealthy. In
60 this Census they retmmed themselves as follows within British Territory -. —
61 Pjbfkdns. Biloches. Total.
62 Derah IsmdQ KhSn .., ... ... 1,324 340 1,664
63 Derah Gliazi Khan ... ... ... 32 246 278
64 Total Province ,., ... ... 1,553 605 2,163
65 ' See Mncgregor's OaztHeer of the North- Wetl Frontier, Vol. II, page 259, for an account cf
66 its origin.