Mir Jalal Khan

Mir Jalal Khan, son of Jiand, is said to have been

ruler over all the Baloches. He left four sons, named Rind, Lashar, Hot, and Korai,
and a daughter named Jato, who was married to his nephew Murad. These five
are the eponymous founders of the five great divisions of the race, the Rinds,
Lasharis, Hots, Korais, and Jatois. There are, however, some tribes which cannot
be brought within any of these divisions, and accordingly we find ancestors duly
provided for them in some genealogies. Two more sons are added to the list—Ali
and Bulo. From Bulo are descended the Bule

dhis, and from Ali’s two sons,

Ghazan and Umar, are derived the Ghazani Marris and the Umaranis (now
scattered among several tribes). I may here note that the genealogies given in the
‘Tuhfatu’l-Kiram

1 seem to be apocryphal, and are not in accordance with Baloch

tradition. It is there asserted that Jalálu’d-din was one of fifty brothers, and that
he received one-half of the inheritance, the rest taking half between them, and
that, while the descendants of the other brothers mingled with the people of
Makran, those of Jalalu’d-din came to Sindh and Kachhi, and their descendants
are spread through the country. The actual tradition of the Baloches, however,
represents that the tribal divisions originated in the performance of Jalal Khan’s
funeral ceremonies. Rind had been appointed by his father successor to the

Phagh

or Royal Turban, and proposed to perform the ceremonies and erect an

asrokh, or

memorial canopy. His brother Hot, who was his rival, refused to join him,
whereupon the others also refused; each performed the ceremony separately,
‘and there were five

asrokhs in Kech. Some of the bolaks joined one and some

another, and so the five great tribes were formed. In reality it seems probable
that there were five principal gatherings of clans under well-known leaders, and
that they became known by some nickname or descriptive epithet, such as the
Rinds (‘cheats’), the Hots (‘warriors‘), the Lasharis (‘men of Lashar‘), etc., and
that these names were afterwards transferred to their supposed ancestors. The
Buledhis, or men of Boleda,

2 probably joined the confederacy later, and the same

may be said of the Ghazanis and Umaranis. One very important tribe—the
Dodai—is not included in any of these genealogies, the reason being that this
tribe is undoubtedly of Indian origin, and that its a to the Baloch stock did not

take place until the movement to Sindh had begun. To explain this it is necessary

to return to the historical narrative.