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a tribe of Hindu Jats, down to within a couple of miles of Sath Garh 369 
on the south. Continuing to run from thence with a very tortuous 
859 This place in Blochmann’s printed text is —Sad-Kharah, but, cor¬ 
rectly, as above, was the chief place of a mahall of that name in the Debal-pur sarkdr 
of the Multan subah, which sarkdr contained four Do-abahs, and the Berun-i-Panch 
Nad, or Extra Panj Ab. At the time Abu-1-Fazl wrote his A’fn-i-Akbari, there 
were 59,448 bigahs of land under cultivation, the revenue amounted to 3,551,230 
ddms, and free grants existed to the amount of 20,972 dams. The inhabitants 
of the mahall were Baluchis and Khar’l Jats, who were assessed as able to furnish 
300 horsemen, and 4000 foot for militia purposes. 
At the time of the Survey I have been quoting from in this paper, Sath Garb 
is mentioned as lying just midway between Fath-pur, Ghugherah, and Sher Garh, 
near the dry channel of the Rawi, and as being, in former times, the chief place of 
a sub-district, but now, for the most part, in ruins, and in the possession of a Sikh 
named Wazir Singh, who also held Hurappah. 
Though of little consequence in other ways, it is somewhat so in an historical 
point of view. 
Colonel Macgregor in his “ Gazetteer,” and Mr. A. W. Hughes of the Bombay 
Uncovenanted Service, the compiler of “ a Gazetteer of Sind,” and another of 
“ Balochistan,” quote a wonderful history of the Baluchis from a “ Report” by Mr. 
R. Bruce, C. S., respecting a petty chief of a section of the Rind clan of that people, 
named Chakar. According to this “ history,” after the Baluchis had settled in 
Kalat and Kachchhi, a feud arose between Ohakar, and Rahman, a Lishari chief of 
the same race. “They collected their armies,” says the “Report,” a battle ensued 
and the Rinds were defeated with the loss of 700 killed. On this, “ Mir Chakar 
“ sent for assistance to Sultan Shah Husdn, King of Persia, who sent an army under 
“ the command of Zami to his aid .” 
Unfortunately, such a Shah of Persia never existed, and such a leader as 
“ Zami ” is unknown to fame. They have managed to mix up here the name of 
the Langah Jat ruler of Multan, Shah Husain. 
Then comes a still more wonderful piece of history, that, “ After Mir Chakar had 
“committed the country to the care of his lieutenants, it appears that he, with a 
“ number of his followers, joined the standard of Hamdyun Shah in his attempts to 
“ recover the kingdom of Hindustan, and went with him to Dehli. Other reports say 
“ that he took Dehli from Hamdyun Shah, and afterwards tendered his submission .” 
Subsequent to Humayun Badshah’s return from Persia, after obtaining aid 
from Shah Thamasib, his defeating his brother, Mirza Kamran, and his final 
advance from beyond the Indus into Hindustan for the recovery of his empire, the 
“ Report” informs us, that “he had a large army,” and that “ it is very probable that 
“ he may have returned through the JBolan Pass, and been joined by the Rinds under 
Mir Chakar .” 
I do not think there is any “ History of India,” however poor, that does not 
clearly show that the Badshah did not return by the Bolan Pass ; and, certainlv, 
he was not joined on the way by “ the Rind army,” nor Chakar’s “ lieutenants.” 
Added to this “ history,” we have some Baluch Ballads translated by Mr. L. M. 
Dames, C.S., which appeared in the “ Journal ” for 1880; and from these more 
“history” of the same kind is adduced. There Ohakar “ is said to hare founded a 
kingdom [like “ the kingdom of the Nahars,” the “ Sitpur kingdom”] with its capital 
