BOZDAR, a border tribe on the N.W. frontier of India, with about 2500 fighting men. They dwell west of the Derajat, in the bills opposite Mungrota, about 50 miles north of Dehra-Ghazi Khan. After a series of troublesome inroads on the plains, a force was sent against them in March 1857, through the Mahvi and Mungrota passes, and, after seeing their green crops destroyed, and seeing the Osterani, a small but warlike tribe,',join the British, one morning the Bozdar chiefs rode into the British camp and sued for peace. They were received in solemn durbar ; and for every man they had slain in their forays 125 rupees were paid, and 50 rupees for every wounded man, this being the regular price of blood in the hills. A few months afterwards, they furnished a con tingent to protect the frontier when the troops were sent to quell the mutiny of 1857. This Baluch tribe occupy the mountains and the low country, and have the following sections—Sehrani, Suwarni, Gulamanni, Jelalani, Chandiab, and Shahani. Prom the Kusranee limits the hills of the Bozdar tribe extend along the British frontier for about .15. or 20 miles. The range is intersected by some nine passes leading into the_ plains, chief of which is the Sungurh pass, through which there is considerable traffic with Kandahar and the Panjab. Opposite these hills lies the
Sungurh lowland (forming the upper portion of the Debra-01mi Khan district and cultivated by several peaceful tribes), and very much at the mercy of the Bozdars. There is only ono Bozdar village in the plains, but there is much scattered cultivation belonging to the tribe. Almost the whole tribe and their chiefs live in the hills. They can muster 3000 or 4000 fighting men, some portion of whom are horsemen. They were probably the most formidable robbers in this part of the frontier. Under the Sikh regime they repeatedly carried fire and sword into the Debra Gliazi Khan district. The direct and main pass which leads into the Bozdar country is the Sungurh pass, opposite Munghrata, the one by which Sir N. Chamberlain's force entered. The Sukhi Surwar pass is below Dera-Ghazi Khan, in the Loggharri (Baluch) country, between which and the I3ozdars there is also another Baluch tribe, the Khosahs. The Chachar pass, again, is still further lower down, near Hurrund, and more distant still from the Bozdars.—Medley's Year's Campaigning.