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anticipated Afghan aid in proving his assertion: so long as Madad Khan
held Jalk, he made certain payments to Azad Khan. Since his removal,
Azad Khan has regularly once or twice a year, either in person or by
deputy, raided Jalk and Kalagan. In 1773 Ahmad Shah died, and from
that time the countries of Seistan, Baluchistan, and Mekran granted
no more than a nominal obedience to the kings of Kandahar. Persia
was distracted by the struggles between the feeble princes who succeed
ed to Nadir Shah, and it would seem that during this period the great
Nadir Khan was able to reassert the supremacy of Kalat over the
Kharanis and to establish the close connection which has since that time
existed between the Brahui and the Kharan chiefs. It was during this
period that Jehangir, Abbas’ son, became chief of Kharan. Jehangir
allied himself by marriage with the Gitchki, with the Kurds and the
Halakzais. His sons by the Gitchki mother, and their descendants,
have all been stamped with the characteristics of the Naosherwanis ;
Abbas and his descendants have held Kharan ; Lallah Khan was grand
father of the marauder, Baluch Khan. Muhim Khan was apparently the
most energetic of the three brothers.”
He seized Kuhak and held it for fifty years, and his son, Murad Khan,
succeeded him. In 1872 Mir Ibrahim Khan, Bampuri, having demanded
tribute in vain from Murad Khan, besieged and took Kuhak. I he
fighting is said to have been desultory the Persians taking what
Sir Oliver St. John considered one of the strongest forts in Persia in
three days ; they managed to fire one of the doors and thus got in.
Murad Khan lost a large quantity of arms, etc. Mir Murad Khan
owns a good deal of hereditary land in Panjgur, and Azad Khan
allowed him to occupy the fort at Khudabadan. Here he resided until
Mir Mahmud approached Panjgur with the Khans forces in 1882, he
then took to the hills, and although invited to return to his possessions,
declined to do so. The Khan’s Mastaufi razed Khudabadan to the
ground, and Mir Mahmud Khan attached all Murad Khan’s possessions.
“ Jehangir’s son by the Kurdish mother was a thorn in the side of his
successor, Abbas Khan, and of his son Azad Khan.
“Abbas Khan following the prudent example of his father strengthen
ed himself by various alliances; he married a Barechi woman and thus
connected himself with the powerful Shorawak tribe; by her he had
two sons, Azad Khan and Fatteh Khan ; he also married a daughter of
Shah Pasand, the celebrated chief of his northern neighbours, the
Sinjaranis. He took to himself a daughter of the Buzurgzadas of Jalk,
and he further strengthened his connection with the Baluchis by bringing
to his home a woman of the Mamasani tribe, which large clan wanders
over both Persia and Kalat .”(Pottinger Ross Duke.)
NARANO WELL.—Lat. 27 0 59' J Lon g* 62 ° 5 6 ' i Elev *
About 2 miles west of Baluch-Perso boundary pillar 8, and 10 miles
north-west of Ladgasht.
ARUIS—
Referring to the Naruis of Seistan, Bellew writes thus #
“ This tribe was brought into Seistan and located at Burj-i-Alam and
Kimak by Malik Bahram, Kaiani, in the beginning of this century