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This article is an extract from <br/>

PANJAB CASTES <br/>

SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. <br/>

Being a reprint of the chapter on <br/>
The Races, Castes and Tribes of <br/>
the People in the Report on the <br/>
Census of the Panjab published <br/>
in ''' 1883 ''' by the late Sir Denzil <br/>
Ibbetson, KCSI <br/>

Lahore : <br/>

Printed  by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, <br/>

1916. <br/>
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=Course of migration= 

Of the original location 
of the tribes I know next to nothing, and what information I have been 
able to collect is given in section 378. But the above sketch of their 
existing distribution enables us to follow with some certainty the later 
routes by which they arrived at their present settlements. The organised 
tribes of Derah Ghazi, including the Nutkani, would appear to have descended 
from the hills eastwards towards the river ; and the four most insignificant 
of the broken tribes, the Mastoi, the Hajani, the Sanjrani, and the Ahmadani, 
seem to have followed the same course. 

A few Laghari are found in Derah 
Ismail and Muzaffargarh, and a few Khosa in Bahawalpur ; but with 
these exceptions not one of the above tribes is represented in the Panjab 
outside the Ghazi district_, except the Qasrani whose hill territory extends 
into Derah Ismail. On the other hand all the larger broken tribes of 
Derah Ghazi, with the single exception of the Nutkani which was till 
lately organised, and all the remaining tribes which possess any numerical 
importance in the Panjab except four Derah Ismail tribes to be mentioned 
presently, seem to have spread up the Indus from below, as they are without 
exception strongly represented on the lower course of the river, and not 
at all in the hill country. The Rind and the Jatoi seem to have come 
up the Indus in very great numbers, and to have spread high up that 
river, the Chanab, the Jahlam, the Ravi, and the Satluj. The Lashari 
and the Korai followed in their track in slightly smaller numbers, but 
avoided to a great extent the Ravi valley. The Chandia, the Gopang, the 
Hot, and the Gurmani seem to have confined themselves chiefly to the valley 
of the Indus, the Chandia having perliaps passed up the left bank, as they are 
found in Derah Ismail but not in Derah Ghazi. So indeed are the Hot, 

See note to section 384. but that is accounted for by their seat of Grovernnient having- been Derah 
Ismail. Pour tribes, the Kulachi, the Jiskani, the Gashkori, and tho Mihrani, 
the two last of which are comparatively insignificant, are found in Derah 
Ismail and nowhere else save in Muzaifargarh, where the first three occur 
in small number-?. As already stated in section 885, the Jiskani and Kulachi 
apparently had their origin as tribes in Leiah and Derah Fatah Khan, 
while the Mhrani were driven there from Derah Ghazi. It would seem 
probable that the Gashkorl either came across the hills in the south of the 
district, or are a local sub-division of some larger tribe which followed 
the usual track along the river. The Korai are Rind; the Gopang and 
the Dasti are not pure Biloch, but are said to have accompanied the Rind 
in their wanderings.