The Buledi or Buleidi (Balochi: بلیدی) is a Baloch tribe in the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. The tribe derives its name from the Buleida valley in Kech.123 the Bulediare listed among the major tribes of the Kacchi region.4
History
Buledi descend from a certain Bu Said or Buledi, whom they claim to have come in the 18th century from Oman in the southern Arabian Peninsula.5 However, according to the Italian anthropologist Ugo Fabietti it is possible that in reality the Buledi tribe came from the Helmand region of Afghanistan.6 For a time, Buledi ruled Kech with the support of Nader Shah of Persia. However, they lost Kech to the Gichkis after a power struggle in the 18th century, and whole eastern Makran came under control of the Gichkis.6
References
References
- Al Nahyan, Hussain, ul Ghafoor, Mansoor Bin Tahnoon, Jamal, Asad (2019). Tribes of Pakistan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 9781527534391.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Mansel Longworth Dames. The Baloch race (1904). p. 2. ASIN B0062JN20S.
- Iqbal, Kashif (2023). The Struggle for Political Power in Balochistan, 192947. Pencil. ISBN 9789356673984.
- "BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- Fabietti 2011, pp. 95, 100.
- Fabietti 2011, pp. 100–101.
Bibliography
- Fabietti, Ugo E. M. (2011). Ethnography at the Frontier: Space, Memory and Society in Southern Balochistan. Peter Lang. doi:10.3726/978-3-0352-0104-8. ISBN 978-3-0352-0104-8.