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Friday, 9 March 2012

Khetrani Baloch

The Khetrans are also a tribe of undoubtedly Indian origin, occupying a tract in
the Sulaiman Mountains, between the Baloch and Pathan tribes, and still
speaking their original Indian language—a dialect peculiar to themselves and
akin to Sindhi and Jatt with which I have some acquaintance. It is hardly
necessary to observe that their name cannot be derived, as Dr. Bellew supposes,
from Khater, ‘mercantile Rajput,’ but means ‘cultivator,’ and must be referred to
Khetr (Ski. Kshetra), ‘a field.’

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