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Excerpt from Popular Poetry of the Baloches, Vol. 1My sincerest thanks are due also to the Royal Asiatic Society for its assistance and co-operation, without which it would have been impossible to include a complete collection of the original texts from which the English renderings are made.Without these texts the translations, the value of which depends mainly on the correctness of my interpretations, would have lost much of their value.To bo...

Excerpt from Popular Poetry of the Baloches, Vol. 1My sincerest thanks are due also to the Royal Asiatic Society for its assistance and co-operation, without which it would have been impossible to include a complete collection of the original texts from which the English renderings are made.Without these texts the translations, the value, of which depends mainly on the correctness of my interpretations, would have lost much of their value.To b...

Excerpt from The Baloch Race: A Historical and Ethnological SketchThe name Baloch is used in two distinct ways by travellers and historians. In the first place, it is employed as in cluding all the races inhabiting the geographical area shown on our maps under the name of Balochistan, and in the second place, as denoting one especial race, known to themi selves and their neighbours as the Baloch. It is in the latter signification that I employ...

Excerpt from Popular Poetry of the Baloches, Vol. 1 My sincerest thanks are due also to the Royal Asiatic Society for its assistance and co-operation, without which it would have been impossible to include a complete collection of the original texts from which the English renderings are made. Without these texts the translations, the value of which depends mainly on the correctness of my interpretations, would have lost much of their value. ...

Excerpt from The Baloch Race: A Historical and Ethnological Sketch The name Baloch is used in two distinct ways by travellers and historians. In the first place, it is employed as in cluding all the races inhabiting the geographical area shown on our maps under the name of Balochistan, and in the second place, as denoting one especial race, known to themi selves and their neighbours as the Baloch. It is in the latter signification that I empl...

Excerpt from Popular Poetry of the Baloches, Vol. 1 Popular Poetry of the Baloches to a conclusion and laying before the Public the result of many years labour in collecting, transcribing and translating the ballads and verses here set forth, I have the greatest pleasure in acknowledging the action of the Folklore Society in issuing this book as the Annual Volume for 1905, and in thanking the Council and the Society for giving me the opportun...

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The Balochi people and language is spread from the coast of Iran to the interior of Pakistan. There are few written sources of their tribal legends and folklore. M. Longworth Dames brings together his wealth of knowledge on tribal language and culture, as a member of the esteemed folklore society to translate and compile this fascinating collection. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now ex...