Kaurwa, a peaceable nomade race, chiefly in the t'hul of Dhat, rear cattle.
Dhote or Dhatti, like the Kaurwa, a pastoral race ofphat ; their cows give 8 or 10 seers of milk daily.
Lohana, numerous in Dhat and Talpura ; they are scribes and shopkeepers.
Arora, a thrifty race, tradesmen and farmers. Bhatti, formerly martial, now traders, and, like the Arora, have commercial agencies all over India. Brahman Bishnavi, cultivators and graziers, numerous in Dhat, some in Chore, in Omerkot, Dharnas, and Mitti.
a race who in Hindustan profess Muhammadanism and rear camels ; here, are a tribe who rear camels, or, with the Bhatti, steal them.
, Sahrai is the most numerous of theMuhammadan tribes of the desert, of which he is the terror. Masson says the Sahrai once ruled in Kalat. They preceded the Sewah, a Hindu dynasty, which in turn the Brahui displaced.
Khosa, a section of the Rind Baluch settled in Upper Sind between Sukker and the Sind canal towards Shikarpur. They have four clans. The Khosa become a predatory tribe on the eastern confines of Sind, verging towards the Cutch territories, where Rajputs are located. They were very troublesome. They are also in the eastern boundaries as wandering herdsmen.
Sumaicha are converts to Muhammadanism, from the Soda race ; some are pastoral, some are plunderers. They are dirty, and never shave.
Rajur, converts from the Bhatti, are cultivators, shepherds, and thieves, and evil-livers.
Umra and Sanwa, converts from the Puar or Pramara race, have mixed largely with Muham madans.
. The Jot, Zj'hut, Jet, Jut, or Jhat, in religion partly Hindu, partly Sikh, and partly Muhamma dan, occupy the north-west and bordering pro vinces of British India, also the Panjab and Sind. They all refer to the west of the Indus and of Ghazni as their original seats. They are the principal cultivating and pastoral classes in Sind.
The Jat on the Upper Sind frontier are converts to Muhammadanism ; they are a wandering race, but attach themselves to Baluch and other tribes. They are squarer and stouter in their build, and have broader features than the Baluch. In Lower Sind they are camel - breeders and dealers. The Jat is as inseparable from the camel throughout Sind as the Arab from his horse in Arabia, and are consulted on every occasion where the health or efficiency of this invaluable animal is in question. The Jat, like all the tribes in the Sind districts, have innumerable subdivisions, called Koum. They aa hard-working, quiet race, occupying them selN in rearing camels, feeding flocks, or culti vating the soil. They are invariably found in large communities, often living in temporary huts or `wands,' and migrating all over Sind and its confines, as shepherds, in search of pasture.
Where this is not the case, they are farm servants either of the Baluch chiefs or wealthy zamindars, who repay their labour with a modicum of the produce. The Jat in Sind are exceedingly valuable subjects. Their women throughout the country are noted for their beauty, and, to their credit be it also spoken, for their chastity. They work as hard as the men, and the labour of tending, driving home their flocks, milking the cattle, etc., is fairly divided. They form a large division of the population of Sind, though seldom found in its towns, being dispersed over the whole face of the country, particularly eastward to the desert tract which separates Sind from Cutch, known as the Runn, on which this tribe rear large flocks of camels. Other pastoral Muhammadans are the Khosa in Upper Sind, Sikh Lohana in the Delta, and emigrants from the Panjab, who have in many instances become amalgamated with the people of the country.
The Sindi is taller, more robust, more muscular, and stronger than the native of Western India. His hands, feet, and ankles are large. The features are regular, and the general look of the head is good. His beard, especially among the upper classes, is handsome, though not equal to that of the Persian or Afghan. The brave and hardy hill tribes have always treated the Sindi like a serf, and his morale is low. He is idle, immoral, and apathetic, unclean in his person, and addicted to intoxication, notoriously cowardly in times of danger, and proportionately insolent when he has nothing to fear. The Sindi women (not the Baluch) are fond of intrigue, fond of flattery, but are grave and sedate in society. The indoor games are pachisi, cards, cowries ; most all smoke tobacco ; they are fond of snuff, and many use ganja. The Sin di men are fond of fighting (Ghata) rams. The best breed is the large and strong black animal of the hills. The women of Sind dress gaily, in bodices worked over with various coloured silks in many patterns, into which they frequently insert pieces of looking glass. Sindi women are of fairer complexion and finer features and form than those of Western India ; the latter, however, are superior in grace and delicacy of make. Sindi women are most indecent in their language, especially in abuse ; they have very few expressions peculiar to their sex, but deliberately select the worst words used by the men.