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This book is an abridged, translated, and edited version of a comprehensive eight-volume series titled Tarikh-i Baloch va Balochistan, written in Urdu, by Mir Naseer Khan Ahmedzai Kambarani Baloch. The author describes the entire history of the foundation, origin, and development of the nation to which he himself belongs, and the rise and fall of the ruling house representing this nation, of which he himself was a prominent member.

Note biographique

Mir Naseer Khan Ahmedzai Kambarani Baloch: A former Deputy Commissioner of Kalat and Vizier-e-Durbar of the State of Kalat, Mir Naseer Khan Ahmedzai (1919-2013), was a respected Baloch author and historian. Author of a number of books including the history of the Baloch people, he witnessed such seminal events as the merger of Kalat state with Pakistan, the formation of the Balochistan States Union, the formation of One Unit, and then the creation of Balochistan as a separate province. Mir Naseer Khan served as the Chairman of the Secondary and Intermediate Board of Education of Balochistan, Chairman of the Balochistan Textbook Board, and Professor of Balochi and Brahui languages at the University of Balochistan. He is a recipient of the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan.

Table des matières

• A Note to Readers


• Introduction by Martin Axmann


• Part I (853 BCE-1547 CE)


• 1: Balochistan and the Baloch


• 2: The Brakhui Kurd


• 3: Foreign Dynasties in Balochistan (Part I)


• 4: The Rise of Islam


• 5: Turan and Makran under Hindu Rule


• 6: The Akrad Baloch


• 7: Tribal Reorganization in Sistan, Turan, and Makran


• 8: Foreign Dynasties in Balochistan (Part II)


• 9: Ameer Meeru Meerwani and the Baloch Reformation


• 10: The Baloch Confederacy under the Meerwani Baloch


• Part II (1547-1988)


• 11: The Kambarani Ameers of Kalat


• 12: The Ahmedzai Khans of Kalat


• 13: The Era of Ameer Naseer Khan Noori


• 14: The Rise of Colonialism in India, Afghanistan, and Persia


• 15: The Line of the Khans of Kalat Continued


• 16: Ameer Khudadad and the British Takeover of Balochistan


• 17: Ameer Mahmood II and Ameer Azam Khan


• 18: Ameer Ahmad Yar and the Independence of Kalat State


• 19: Pakistan and the Annexation of Kalat State


• 20: Balochistan States Union and the One Unit


• 21: The Impact of the 1970s Elections on Balochistan


• Bibliography


• Index

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