1 BILOCH, PAT HAN, AND ALLIED EACES. 55
2 they differ in little but race. The history of the Biloehes of the Derah Ghazi
3 lowlands is briefly sketched in the next paragraph. Their most important
4 tribes are the Rind^^ the Jatoi, who still hold as a tribe, though without
5 political organisation, a compact tract in Sindh between Shikarpur and the
6 Indus, the Lashari,^ Gopang, Gui-mani, Mastoi, Hajani, Sanjrani, and
7 Ahmadani. These all lie scattered along the edge of the Indus, intermingled
8 with the Jats of the Kachi or low riverain tract.
9 385. Biloch tribes of Derah Ismail. — I have already stated that the three
10 sons of Malik Sohrab Khan and Ghiizi Khan, Dodais, founded Derah Ghazi,
11 Derah Ismail, and Derah Fatah Khiin. The tribal name of Dodai seems to
12 have been soon dropped, or perhaps the leaders were of a different tribe from
13 their followers ; for the representatives and tribesmen of Ghazi Khan are
14 locally known as Mibrani, those of Ismail Khan as Hot, and those of Fatah
15 Khan as Kulachi. The party of Fatah Khan never seems to have attained to
16 any importance, and was almost from the beginning subject to the Hot.
17 With Ghazi Khan came the Jiskani, who occupied the cis-Indus tract above
18 Bhakkar, while with the Hots came the Korai whose name is associated with
19 them in an old Biloch verse. '' The Hots and Korai are joined together j
20 •' they are equal with the Rind.'^ The Korai do not appear to have exercised
21 independent rule. At the zenith of their power the Hot, Mihrani, and Jiskani
22 held sway over almost the whole of the Indus valley and of the thai between
23 the Indus and the Chanab, from the centre of the Muzaffargarh district to the
24 Salt-range Tract, the northern boundary of Sanghar and Leiah being the
25 northern boundary of the Mihrani, while the Indus separated the Hot from
26 Jiskani. During the latter half of the 16th century Diiud Khan, a Jiskani
27 and the descendant of one of Ghazi Khan's followers, moved southwards and
28 subjugated to himself the greater part of the Leiah country. Akbar dispersed
29 his tribe, but early in the 17th century the independence of the Jiskani under
30 Biloch Khan was recognised, and it is from Biloch Khan that the Jiskani,
31 Mandrani, Mamdani, Sargani, Qandrani, and Maliani, who still occupy the
32 Bhakkar and Leiah tahsils, trace their descent. In about 1750 — 1770 A. D.
33 the ]\Iihrani, who sided with the Kalhoras or Sarais of Sindh in their struggle
34 with Ahmad Shah Dun-ani, were driven out of Derah Ghazi by the Jiskani
35 and fled to Leiah, where many of them are still to be found ; and a few years
36 later the Kalhoras, expelled from Sindh, joined with the always turbulent
37 Sargani to crush the Jiskani rule. About the same time the Hot were over-
38 thrown after a desperate struggle by the Gandapui- Pathans.
39 The Biloehes of Dera Ismail are now confined to the low lands, with the
40 exception of the Qasrani and Khetran of the southern border who have already
41 been noticed in section 383. the ujiper hills ai-e held by Pathans. The
42 principal tribes are the Lashari," the Kulachi and the Jiskani. After them
43 come the Rind, the Laghari, the Jatoi, the Korai, the Chandia, the Hot, the
44 Gurmani, the Petafi, the Gashkori, and the Mihrani. Of the four last all but
45 the Petafi seem almost confined to Derah Ismail.
46 383. The Biloch tribes of Muzaffargarh.— In Muzaffargarh more perhaps
47 than in any other district the Biloch is intermingled with the Jat population,
48 and the tribal name merely denotes common descent, its common owners
49 > It 13 possible that some Biloehes may have returned themselves as Rind or Lashari with refer-
50 ence- to theii' oviginal stock rather than to their present tribe ; and that some of the Lashari clans
51 of the Gurchani tribe may hnve been included in the Lashari tribe.
52 3 See note to the preceding paragraph.