122 HISTORY OF AURANGZIB. [CHAP. VI. they sallied forth to rob and to slay. No ruler of Sindh, from the days of the Tarkhan dy- nasty, had extorted even a nominal submission from these border brigands. Aurangzib sent his able lieutenant, Malik Husain of the Abdali clan, against them. The force marched for ten days beyond the frontier of Lower Sindh, exacted promises of submission and tribute from Harun and Khatartal (the Nahmardi chiefs), and Murid (the headman of the Jukias), and caused the Emperor's name to be read from the pulpit as a public mark of his suzerainty. This show of strength evidently had a good effect on the neighbours, for Jafar Nahmardi, a kinsman of the zamindar of Panjghur* and Kech Makran, and four other chiefs offered and in Makran. their allegiance to the Imperial government. Another Nahmardi chief named Madh, had descended from the hills of Southern Afghanistan to raid Bela and Kahra. But Malik Husain with the Imperial troops made a forced march of 140 refuge of these two clans. The Ain speaks of a range of mountains named Karah, evidently west of Bhakkar. (ii. 337).
- The Adab-i-Alamgiri, 3b, has Banchur or Panjur "and
Kaj and Makran". I take the place to be Panjghur, 27°30 N. 63°E., north north-east of Kaj (or Kech), described in Masson's Kalat, 219. The chief objection to the indenti- fication is that it is more than 300 miles away from Tatta. Digitized by Microsoft Ⓡ
