The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.174
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.174
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The second type of Turko-Irānian tribe is based primarily not upon agnatic kinship, but upon common good and ill; in other words, it is cemented together only by the obligations arising from the blood-feud. There is no eponymous ancestor, and the tribe itself does not profess to be composed of homogeneous elements.... The same principles hold good in the case of the Brāhūi...whose numbers have been recruited from among Afghāns, Kūrds, Jadgāls, Baloch, and other elements. (*Imp. Gaz.* I, p. 310.)