Jatoi (Baloch tribe)
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The Jatoi (Balochi: جتوئی) is a Baloch tribe[1][2][3] [4][5][6][7] in Sindh and the Kacchi Plain in the east of Balochistan.[8] Balochi traditional ballads tell of a leader named Mir Jalal Khan who had four sons, Rind, Lashar, Hot, and Korai, and a daughter Jato, who married his nephew Morad. According to these ballads, These five are the eponymous founders of Rinds, Lasharis, Hoth, Korai, and Jatoi Tribe .[8][9]
The subclans of the Jatoi are Shar, Aterani, Nichrani, Perozani, Jafrani, Bullani, Lahorzai, Bullo, Misrani, Kharoos, Zangeja, Kosh, Baghani, Tarrt, Shadinja, Birhamani.
Members of the Jatoi tribe mainly speak Saraiki and Sindhi.
References
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- ^ Cheesman, David (2013-12-16). Landlord Power and Rural Indebtedness in Colonial Sind. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-79449-0.
- ^ Gazetteer of the Jhang District: 1883. 1883.
- ^ Kaul, Hari Kishan; Tomkins, L. L. (1914). Report on Questions Relating to the Administration of Criminal and Wandering Tribes in the Punjab. Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab.
- ^ Provincial Series: Bombay Presidency ... Superintendent of government printing. 1909.
- ^ Baluchistan (Pakistan) (1908). Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series: Index, v. 1-8. printed at Bombay Education Society's Press.
- ^ a b Spooner, Brian (2010). "BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography". Encyclopedia Iranica.
- ^ Ram, Hutto (1907). Tareekh Balochistan. p. 10.