The oldest poems say that there were forty-four bolaks

The oldest poems say that there were forty-four

bolaks, of which forty were

Baloches, and four were servile tribes dependent on them. There is no complete
list of these bolaks. The oldest poem mentions seventeen Baloch and three servile
clans, and a few others mentioned in other old ballads bring the number up to
twenty-six, in addition to which three tribes with whom the Baloches were at
war — the Langahs, Nahars, and Kungs — are mentioned.

1 Some of these tribes

are not now known, and most of them are found as clans only, and not as
organized tumans. The only names among them now found as tumans are Rind,
Lashari, Drishak, Mazari, Dombki, and Khosa, to which list should be added the
Hot tribe still found in Mekran, although broken up in the north. Many
considerable tumans, such as the Lund, Leghari, Bozdar, Bughti, Kasrani,
Buledhi (or Burdi), and Jakrani, do not appear at all in the older poetry.
The septs, or phallis, are the units out of which the larger organizations are built
up, and may be compared to the gotras of a Hindu caste. In a few cases one of
the larger clans composing a tuman appears to be rather a subordinate tribe than
a clan, and has its own important sections, not all necessarily of the same blood.
Sometimes there are more than one in this position. These may conveniently be
known by the name of ‘subtumans.’ Such are the Haddiani section of the
Legharis tribe, the Durkanis and Lasharis among the Gurchanis, the Ghulamanis
among the Bozdars, the Shambanis among the Bughtis, and the Mazaranis
among the Marris. These subtumans are very independent, and not so obedient
to their Tumandars as the ordinary clans. In many tumans one section, either
clan or phalli, is found which has a hereditary feud with the chief, and is in
habitual opposition to him. The Jindanis among the Khosas, the Haibatanis
among the Legharis, and the Mistakanis among the Mazaris are examples of this.
In spite of this, however, the general feeling in a Baloch tribe is in favour of
supporting the chief's authority, and if he is a moderately good man according to
the Baloch standard, just, generous, and of an even temper, he can generally
enforce it without much difficulty. What a really able and straightforward man
can do is shown by the history of Nawab Sir Imam Bakhsh Khan, K.C.I.E., the
Tumandar of the Mazaris, a tribe formerly considered irreclaimable robbers and
pirates on the Indus who have now settled into a law-abiding and loyal tribe,
and over whom he still successfully presides, though blind and eighty years of
age.