Biloch: Other Tribes

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This article is an extract from PANJAB CASTES SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. Being a reprint of the chapter on The Races, Castes and Tribes of the People in the Report on the Census of the Panjab published in 1883 by the late Sir Denzil Ibbetson, KCSI Lahore : Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1916. Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article.

Biloch tribes of Muzaffargarh

In Muzaffargarh more perhaps than in any other district the Biloch is intermingled with the Jat population, and the tribal name merely denotes common descent, its common owners

It is possible that some Bilochies may have returned themaelves as Rind orLashari with refer ence to their original stock rather than to their present tribe ; and that aome of the Lashari clans of the Gurchani tribe may have been included in the Lashari tribe. See note to the preceding paragraph.possess no sort of tribal coherence. The reason doubtless is that since the Biloch immigration the district has formed the borderland between the Lodi of Sitpur, the Daudpotra of Bahawalpnr, the Mihrani of Derah Ghazi, and the Langah of Multan. The Gopang, the Chandia, the Rind, the Jatoi, and the Korai are the tribes most numerously represented. Then came the Laghari, the Lashari, the Hot, the Gurmani, the Petafi, the Mashori, and the Sahrani, of which the last two are hardly found elsewhere.

The Biloch tribes of the Lower Indus and Satluj

A very consider able number of Biloches are scattered along the lower Indus and Satluj in Bahawalpur and Multan, and especially in the former. The most important are the Rind,the Korai, the Gopang, the Jatoi, the Lashari,' and the

Hot, while less numerous bat still important are the Chundia, the Khosa, and the Dasti.

The Biloch tribes of the Ravi, upper Jahlam, and Chanab

The Biloches of the Ravi are chiefly found in the bar of the Montgomery and Jhang districts, where they occupy themselves in camel-breeding, holding but little land as cultivators. They consist almost wholly of Jatoi and Rind, which latter tribe has penetrated in some numbers as high up as Lahore. They are probably descendants of the men who under Mir Chakar accompanied Humayun and received a grant of land in Montgomery in return for their services. In the Jhang and Shahpur districts, on the Jahlam and the right bank of the Chanab, the principal tribes to be found are the Rind, the Jatoi, the Lashari, and the Korai.