Perhaps the Kalmati should be added to this list. Sir T. Holdich supposes them to
derive their name from Kalmat, and this is,
prima facie, probable. They are stated
to be a peculiar tribe with certain religious superstitions attached to them, and itseems possible that their name may be derived from the Karmati or Karmatian
heretics, who were driven into Mekran by Mahmud of Ghazni and Muhammed
bin Sam.
3 Neither Kahiri nor Kalmati are probably Baloches by origin, though
long associated with them and mentioned in old ballads.
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