The Gabole clan of Balnch, dwelling in Sind, have marked and peculiar features. Under the Sind Andes rule they garrisoned bill forts in the western mountains, and held rent-free lands for their military service.
The Arizamani, a Baluch tribe in Sind, follow settled pursuits. They take their name from Nizam, a common ancestor, though now subdivided into separate clans or houses. They are well educated in Persian, Sindi, and Arabic.
The Kahiri are a small tribe of peaceful herds men and cultivators, occupying lands in the C u told district of Sind.
The Lund have 30 sub-sections or families.
Amrani, a Baluch tribe on the northern margin of the district between Upper Sind and Cutchi ; they have eleven clans.
Jamali, a poor Baluch tribe ; cultivators and shepherds at Rajhan on the edge of the Barshari desert in Upper Sind.
Jana, a small Baluch tribe in Upper Sind.
The Mohanna are deep-sea fishermen and sailors, a thriving class, fish maws and shark fins being largely exported. They also fish with large hand nets in the Manchar, Maniyar, and Kinjur lakes, resting on an inverted pot as a float. They are Muhammadans, supposed to have been converts from Hinduism. They have four sections,—the Kurachee, Lara, Bundri, Wungura, the last named being foresters in the salt-water jungle. They are dark in colour. The men are industrious and hardy, though addicted to the use of bhang. Their women when young are handsome, but even when married are immoral and unchaste, and use gross language. Their headmen are styled Changa Mama.
Onteasies.—The ceremonial or professional un cleanness of certain races, which in India takes tho form of caste inferiority, is continued into Sind as regards the Dapher, the Kori or weavers, the Dher and Chamar, curriers, tanners, and shoe makers; and the Chahru and Bala Shahi, sweepers. All these are deemed unclean. The Dapher is a hunter, fowler, or shikari ; many of them profess 31uhammadanism, and are styled Machhi, but are not allowed to enter a mosque, possibly because they eat carrion. They occupy separate hunting grounds, and are skilled hunters. Their name is taken from the dapho,' their favourite weapon, a broad-headed javelin, with a shaft six or seven feet long.
The Langhan or Mirasi and the Kalwat are musicians. The Langhan arc of Jat or Sindi extraction, and are considered a vile race. The Kalwat are respectable singers. There are some charming Sindi poems ; amongst them is ',that of Sasani and Punha, the history of whose love and death much resembles that of Romeo and Juliet.
Luri, bards or troubadours, who attach them selves to high Baluch families in Baluchistan and Sind. They are musicians, tinkers, vagabonds, and fortune-tellers. They arc in troops, with a chief in each. They profess Muhammadanism, but are really pagans.
The Agar/ is a race of low degree, employed in the manufacture of salt.
The llangeli or Khobli is a low courtesan of the Jatki race, from the districts of Ubbo and Jhangsiyal. They inhabit villages on the main
roads, and support themselves and the men by receiving travellers. Some of these women have very fine features and forms, particularly in early youth. A more respectable class is the Kanyari, who, like the nautch girl of India, generally unites the occupation of dancing with the immoral part of her profession.
Knimutti, a well-conducted, intelligent tribe on the western part of the Kurachee eollectorate,claim to be of Arab origin. They appear to have estab lished themselves on the Makran coast, whence they pushed their way into Sind, and acquired by conquest possessions on both banks of the Hubb, and in the Sakra taluk. Their chief wealth con sists in camels.
The ifuhananackin religion has been largely accepted by the races who have been occupying Sind, but the numbers professing the Hindu and the Jaina faith are still considerable. Immigra tion from the Panjab, from Amritsar and idultan, and from the western parts of India, keep up the numbers.
Hindus are dispersed over the whole of Sind ; in the wildest fastnesses of the Baluch mountains, in the deserts and smallest collection of huts, in the jungles of the plains, a Hindu and his shop of tobacco, spices, groceries, or cloths, is sure to be found; but their principal localities are in Northern Sind at Shikarpur, and in Southern Sind at the port of Kurachee. In Lower Sind, in the Kurachee collectorate, are Brahmans from the Konkan and Mahratta country, Gujerat and Nuggur ; also Gour Brahmans, and the Sarsat and the Pokarna from Jeysulmir. In the Hyderabad district, they are even of more distant countries, the Dekhan, Telingana, Dravida, the Carnatic, and Kanouj. Khatri occur both in Hyderabad and Kurachee. The Vaishnava sectarians seemingly embrace all who engage in traffic and banking. In Kuracheo are the Amil, Godi, Kanuga, Maltajan, Merani, and \Vanilla ; in Hyderabad, the Lohana, Bhatti, Ilhabera, Punjabi, Mehisirri, Usuwar, Sehwani, Khalsa, and Shalidaelpuri. The Sudra are the Bagoi, Jakhiri, Jeysulmiri, Khutti, Kalal, Kurwi, Lobar, Muehi, Ode, Sochi, Sonara, Sutar, and Thumbuli. The Hindus in Sind, Afghanistan, Arabia, Persia, and Africa, are merchants, bankers, shopkeepers. The Hindu merchants and bankers have agents in the most remote parts of Central Asia, and could negotiate bills upon Kandahar, Kalat, Kabul, Khiva, Herat, I3okhara, or any other of the marts in that region. Shikarpur merchants are found all over India and Central Asia, sotno as financiers with bills of exchange, others selling cloths. The places of Hindu pilgrim age are Ilinglaj, the Makli hills near Tatta, and the Dhara Tirtili in the Lukki hills near Schwan. Women of the Hindus of Sind possess a con siderable share of personal beauty, appear to be fond of intrigue, but seldom if ever become pro stitutes.