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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 753 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARRI , a Baluch tribe on the Dera See also:

Ghazi See also:Khan border of See also:Baluchistan. In the See also:census of 1901 they numbered 19,161 and their fighting strength is about 3000. Their relations with the See also:British commenced in 1840 with attacks made on the communications of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Keane's See also:army, after it had passed through the Bolan. An See also:attempt was made to punish the tribe, which ended in disastrous failure. See also:Major Clibborn was repulsed in an attempt to See also:storm the Naffusak Pass, losing 179 killed and 92 wounded out of 650. Many of his force died of See also:heat and thirst. The fort of Kahan, which he was trying to relieve at the See also:time, was forced to capitulate with the honours of See also:war. The Marris, however, joined the British against the Bugtis in 1845. After the See also:annexation of See also:Sind in 1843 the Marris gave much trouble, but were pacified by the policy of See also:General John See also:Jacob and Sir See also:Robert See also:Sandeman. In 188o during the second Afghan War they made frequent raids on the British See also:line of communications, ending with the See also:plunder of a treasure See also:convoy. A force of 3070 British 1 It is doubtless true, as anthropologists have pointed out, that in the See also:history of the See also:race " See also:marriage is rooted in the See also:family rather than the family in marriage " (WESTERMARCK: History of Human Marriage, p. 22) ; but in that conscious experience of the individual with which See also:law and See also:ethics are especially concerned, this relationship is reversed, and the family originates in marriage (see FAMILY, and allied headings).

troops under Brigadier-General See also:

Macgregor marched' through the See also:country, and the tribe submitted and paid r4 See also:lakh (LI2,5oo) out of a See also:fine of 2 lakhs (20,000); they also gave hostages for their future See also:good behaviour. Since then they have given little trouble. The Marri-See also:Bugti country is clasped as a tribal See also:area in Baluchistan, politically controlled from See also:Sibi, but enjoying a large measure of See also:autonomy. under its own chieftains. See also:Total area, 7129 sq. m.; total pop. (rigor), 38,919, almost equally divided between the two tribes of Marris and Bugtis.

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