1843.] Brief History of Kalat. 477 



In Sewa's time, the summit of Kalat only was fortified, and 

 that even very partially, which is now called the Meeree, (or 

 citadel,) an expression peculiar to Balochisthan, as in other parts 

 of Khorasan it is called Arg, (Meeree meaning literally, " place of 

 the Meer.") 



There are no vestiges of Sewa, except in a part of the present build- 

 ing, between the rooms occupied by Mehrab Khan's mother and by his 

 son ; there is a small room known as " Khudee- i-Sewa," or Sewa's 

 cabin ; and whenever the slave girls get ill there, they attribute it to 

 being possessed of one of Sewa's devils. 



The term Brahoee I consider must have been given this people by 



„ , the original inhabitants of the country, on their first 



Brahoee. . & . /' 



entering it. 1 believe the word to be a corruption 



of Ibrahimee, Brahimee, or Brahiwee, as a race either invariably takes 

 its name from its progenitor, or its original country. I have never 

 heard it used in contradistinction to Naroee. Pottinger believes the 

 word to have the same meaning as that of Rohilla. 



The only antiquity of these people I ever heard of, is a boundary stone 

 near Mashkai, called " Sang-i-Kumbar," where the 

 Rambaranee patriarch no doubt fixed his boundary 

 with the aborigines on his first settlement. 



The latest reminiscence of the past is to be found in four grave yards 

 under a hill to the east of Kalat. The western con- 

 tains 15 or 16 graves of Ahmadzyes. The eastern, 

 whose dome cannot they say be covered, is that of Sakhee Meer Sa- 

 mandar, (the Sambar of Pottinger ?) 



Between the two is a yard containing the tombs of Meer Nasseer and 



Meer Mahmood Khan, and between this yard and the dome of Meer 



Samandar, is the burial ground of Meer Shahnawaz Khan's family. 



The oldest inhabitants of Kalat are said to be the Dehwars, or land 



proprietors. I do not look upon them as a distinct 



race, but as descendants of the different lords of 



Kalat, who have after being conquered, sunk down into tillers of land. 



The present race, like the other Tajuks of Khorassan, speak Persian, 



corrupted with the local neighbouring dialects. The Dehwars of Kalat 



corrupt their Persian with Hindustanee, Pushtoo, and Braho-iky. The 



following is a specimen : — 





