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Afghans Ahmdānī Appendix Arab assimilated Babar Badru'd-din Bakhsh Bālāchānī ballads Baloch race Baloch tribes Balochi language Balochistan Balochistan Census Bellew Bijarānī bolaks Bozdar Brahoi tribe Bughti Buledhi Chakur Chandya chief clan conquest Dera Ghāzī Dera Ghazi Khan Dera Ismail Khan derived descended Dodā Dodais Dombki Drishak Durkāni Fath Gabol Ghazan Ghulam Gichki Gishkhauri Gorgezh Gurchānī Gyandar Haibatānī Hamal Holdich Indian origin Indus Iranian Istakhri Jakrānīs Jām Jatoi Jaṭṭs Jhang Kachhi Kahiri Karman Khān Khetran Khosa Kird known Koch and Baloch Korai Kulachi Kurds Langahs large number Lashari Lashārīs legend Leghārī London Lund Maghassi Marris Mas'udi Mazārī Mekrān Mockler Molesworth Sykes Muhammad Multan Muzafargarh name Baloch Northern Balochi Nutkānī organized tumans Panjab Pathan Persian Pitafi poems probably Qufs Raheja Rajput Rinds Rustamānī Sahāk seems SEPT servile tribe settled Shah Beg Shāhnāma Shambānī Sibi Sindh Sistan Somra sub-tuman Sulaiman Mountains Talbur translation tribal names true Baloch Tumandar Umarānī vols
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Page 49 - The mountains are the Baloches' forts, the peaks are better than an army ; the lofty heights are our comrades, the pathless gorges our friends. Our drink is from the flowing springs, our cup the leaf of the dwarf-palm, our bed the thorny brush, the ground we make our pillow.
Page 8 - Phoenicians seem identical with old and modern Bedouin skulls, so that we must consider the modern Bedouins as pure descendants of the old Semitic race. They have long, narrow heads, dark complexion, and a short, small, and straight nose, which is in every respect the direct counterpart of what we are accustomed to call a ''typical Jewish nose.
Page 26 - Ashkaah was from the wanderers of the Koch and Baloch, intent on war, with exalted cockscomb crests, whose back none in the world ever saw.
Page 52 - That the Baloch are an Iranian race, judging by their physical and mental characteristics, and that they should be classed with the Tajiks and other original races of the Iranian tableland. (2) That historically they may be traced first to the north of Persia, in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea, in the time of the later Sassanians. (3) That their settlement in...
Page 50 - ... the land. A song attributed to the Gorgezh characterizes the period: The mountains are the Baloches' forts; these hills are better than an army. The lofty heights are our comrades, the pathless gorges our friends. Our drink is from the flowing springs, our cups the leaf of the dwarf-palm, our beds the thorny brush, the ground our pillow. My horse is my white sandals. For my sons you may take the arrows, for my brethren the broad shield, for my father the wide-wounding sword [pp.49-50].