Mir Jalal Khan By Ismail Mazari 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.
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