1 56 PANJAB CASTES. i
2 possess no sort of tribal coherence. The reason doubtless is that since the
3 Biloch immigration the district has formed the borderland between the Lodi
4 of Sitpur, the Daudpotra of Bahawalpi\r, the Alihrani of Devah Ghazi, and the i
5 Langah of Mnltau. The Gopang, tiie (^'handia, the Rind, the Jatoi, and the j
6 Korai are the tribes most numerously represented. Then came the Laghari,
7 the Lash;iri, the Hot^ the Gurmani, the Petafi, the Mashori, and the Sahrani, j
8 of which the last two are hardly found elsewhere. i
9 387. The Biloch tribes of the Lower Indus and Satluj.— A very consider- \
10 able numljer of Biloches arc scattered along the lower Indus and Satluj in !
11 Bahawalpm- and Multan, and especially in the former. The most important [p iggj
12 are the Rind,^ the Korai, the Gopang, the Jatoi, the Lashari,! and the
13 Hot, while less numerous bat still important are the Chandia, the Khosa, 3
14 and the Dasti. i
15 388. The Biloch tribes of the Ravi, upper Jahlam, and Chanab. — Tlie
16 Biloches of the Ravi are chiefly found in the bar of the Montgomery and [
17 Jhang districts, where they occupy themselves in camel-breeding, holding
18 but little land as cultivators. They consist almost wholly of Jatoi and J
19 Rind, which latter tribe has penetrated in some numl>ers as high up as v
20 Lahore. They are probably descendants of the men who under Mir Chakar ?
21 accompanied Humayun and received a grant of land in ]Montgomery in ';
22 return for their services. In the Jhang and Shahpur districts, on the Jahlam «
23 and the right bank of the Chanab, the principal tribes to be found are the )
24 Rind, the Jatoi, the Lashari, and the Korai. j
25 389. Course of migration of the Biloch tribes.— Of the original location i
26 of the tribes I know next to nothing, and what information I have been i
27 able to collect is given in section 378. But the above sketch of their |
28 existing distribution enables us to follow with some certainty the later ^
29 routes by which they arrived at their present settlements. The organised
30 tribes of Derah Ghazi, including the Nutkani, would appear to have descended <
31 from the hills eastwards towards the river ; and the four most insignificant i
32 of the broken tribes, the Mastoi, the Hajani, the Sanjrani, and the Ahmadani, i
33 seem to have followed the same course. A few Laghari are found in Derah J
34 Ismail and IMuzaffargarh, and a few Khosa in Bahawalpur ; but with j
35 these exceptions not one of the above tribes is represented in the Panjab j
36 outside the Ghazi district, except the Qasranl whose hill territory extends i
37 into Derah Ismail. On the other hand all the larger broken tribes of !
38 Derah Ghazi, with the single exception of the Nutkani which was till ]
39 lately organised, and all the remaining tribes which possess any numerical \
40 importance in the Panjab except four Derah Ismail tribes to be mentioned '■
41 presently, seem to have spread up the Indus from below, as they are \vithout
42 exception strongly represented on the lower course of the river, and not j
43 at all in the hill country. The Rind and the Jatoi seem to have come i
44 up the Indus in very great numbers, and to have spread high up that j
45 river, the Chanab, the Jahlam, the Ravi, and the Satluj. The Lashari \
46 and the Korai followed in their track in slightly smaller nunlbers, but 1
47 avoided to a great extent the Ravi valley. The Chandia, the Gopang, the ;
48 Hot, and the Gurmani seem to have confined themselves chiefly to the valley '
49 of the Indus, the Chandia having perhaps passed up the left bank, as they are j
50 found in Derah Ismail but not in Derah Ghazi. So indeed are the Hot, :
51 ' Se« sote to section 8S4.