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Friday, 9 March 2012

The Marwaris

The Marwaris are the well-known Indian banking caste originating in Marwar. I
do not know how the name found its way into a list of Baloch tribes.
The Mamasani of Sistan are, I believe, Brahois, and not Baloch. This is Dr.
Bellew’s own opinion (see ‘From the Indus to the Tigris,’ 1874, p. 257).
The remaining twenty-five names on his list are Baloch, but a large number of
well-known names is omitted. A few specimens of the method of derivation, on
which the argument as to their Indian origin is founded, will be sufficient.

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