1 54 PANJAB CASTES.
2 The tribe as it now stands is composed of four clans, of wliicli the Gaujura represents the j
3 original Kheti-an iincleus, while to thciu arc affiliated the DhariwaU or Cbacha who say that they |
4 are Dodai Biloches, the Hasanni. once an iinpoitant Eiloch tribe which was crushed by Xasir Eban, ;
5 the great Khan of KcUt, and tooli rcfnge with the Khetran of whom they are now almost inde- I
6 pendent, and the Nahar or Babar, who are hy origin Lodi Pathans.
7 The Khosa (No. 6) occupy the country between the Laghari and the Qasrani, their territory >
8 being divided into a northeni and a southern portion by the territory of the Lnnds, and stretching
9 from the foot of the hiUs nearly across to the river. They arc said to have settled originally in ]
10 Kech ; but with the exception of a certain number in ISahawalpur, they are, so far a~ the Paujab \
11 is concerned, only fouud in Derah Gliazi. They hold, however, extensive lands in Siiidh, which
12 were granted them by Huniajiin in return for military service. They are one of the most power-
13 ful tribes on the border, and very independent of their Chief and are " admitted to be ainong the ]
14 bravest of the Biloches." They are true Rinds and are divided into six elans, of whith the Babe-
15 lani and Isani are the most important, the latter being an offshoot of the Khetran affiliated to the .]
16 Khosii. The other four are Jaggel, Jandani, Jarwar, and Jlalirwani. Tho Chief belongs to the ;
17 Batel clan. The Khosa b the most industrious of the organised tribes ; and at the same time the one ;
18 which next to the Gurchani bears the worst character for lawlessness. In 1S59 Major Pollock ;
19 wrote : " It is rare to find a Khosa who has not been in prison for cattle-stealing, or deserved to
20 " be ; and a Khosa who has not committed a murder or debauched his neighbour's wife or destroyed ,
21 " his neighbour's landmark is a decidedly creditable specimen." And even now the description j
22 is not very much exaggerated.
23 The Lund (No. 49) or Sori Lund, as they are called to distinguish them from the Tibbi Lund, [P. 10
24 are a small tribe whch has ouly lately risen to importance. Their territory divitics that of the
25 Khosa into two parts, and extends to the bank of the Indus. They are not pure Biloches, and are ;
26 divided into six clans, the Haidar^ni, Bakrani, Zariani, Garzwani, Xuhani, and Gurchani, none of .
27 which are important. The figures given for this tribe are obviously absurd, and they have appa- ^
28 rcntly been included with the Tibbi Lund (Xo. 8). ^
29 The Bozdar (No. 22) are an independent tribe situated beyond our frontier at the hack of the .'
30 Qasrani Territory. They hold from the Sanghar Pass on the north to the Khosa and Khetran !
31 country on the south ; and they have the Ldni and Miisa Khcl Pathaus on their western border.
32 Abstract No. 67 shows over 2,000 men as having been within the Panjab at the time of the Census,
33 almost all of them in the Ghazi district. These live in scattered \-illages about Hajaupur and
34 among the Laghari tribe, and have no connection vrMi the parent tribe. The Bozdar are of Rind '
35 extraction, and are divided into the Dulani, Ladwani, Ghulamani, Chakraui, Sihani, Shahwani, '
36 JaMlani, Jafirani, and Rnstamani clans, ihey are more civilized than most of the transfrontier
37 tribes and arc of all the Biloches the strictest jlusalmans. Unlike all other Biloches they fight
38 with the matchlock rather than with the sword. They are great graziers, and their name is said
39 to he derived from the Persian buz, a " goat." J
40 The Qasrani (No. 16) are the northernmost of the tribes which refciun their political organi-
41 sation, their territory lying on either side of the boundary between the two Derahs, and being
42 confined to the hills both within and beyond our frontier and the sub-montane strip. Their name !
43 is written Qaizaiani or Imperial. The tribe is a poor one, and is divided into seven clan?, the
44 Lashkaraui, Khubdin, Budani, Vaswani, Laghari, Jarwar, and Rustamdni, none of which are
45 important. They are of Eind origin, and are not found in the Panjab in any number beyond the j
46 Derah district. I
47 The Nutkani (No. 13) are a tribe peculiar to Derah Ghazi Khan, which holds a compact '
48 territory stretching eastward to the Indus and between the Xorthern Khosa and the Qasrani. The
49 tribe once enjoyed considerable influence and importance, holding rights of sujwrior ownership I
50 over the whole of the Sanghar country. But it no longer possesses a political organization, having i
51 been crushed cut of tribal existence in the early days of Ranji't Singh's rule. But the event is so ,
52 recent that it still retains much of its tribal coherence and of the characteristics of its race. ■
53 384. The broken Biloch trilies of Derah Ghazi.— The tribes above enn- j
54 merated are the only ones to be found within or immediately upon our border .!
55 which have a regular tribal organisation. But there are many other Biloch
56 tribes, aud among them some of ■ those most numerously represented in the j
57 Panjab; which occupy large areas in the south-western districts of the Pro-
58 vince. They no longer hold compact territories exclusively as their own, 1
59 while to great extent in the Derajat itself, and still more outside it, they have \
60 lost their peculiar language and habits, aud can hardly be distinguished from j
61 the Jat population wiih whom they are more or less intermixed, and from whom j
62 1 Dhiriwal is the name of an important Jat tribe, j