Bizenjo

Brahui tribe in Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bizenjo (Brahui: بزنجو) is an ethnic Brahui tribe inhabiting Balochistan province in Pakistan.^[1]^[2] The tribe belongs to the Jhalawani branch of the Brahui tribes.^[3] According to the official list by Mir Ahmad Yar, the last Khan of Kalat, Bizenjo was originally one of the Jatt tribes inhabiting the region; the others being Zehri and Mengal.^[4]^[5] Though the Bizenjo in eastern Makran are Brahui by origin, they have been Baluchified in language and customs due to a prolonged residence in Makran.^[6]

People with the surname

[1]
Rizwan Zeb (2019) (12 December 2019). Ethno-Political Conflict In Pakistan - The Baloch Movement. ISBN 9781000729924.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
[2]
"30,000 Bizenjo Tribesmen join PPP (Pakistan Peoples' Party)". Pakistan Affairs, Volumes 26-29. Information Division, Embassy of Pakistan, 1973 via Indiana University Library (digitized in 2011). 1973.
[3]
Scholz, Fred (2002) [1974]. Nomadism & colonialism : a hundred years of Baluchistan, 1872-1972. Karachi; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-579638-4.
[4]
Table 13 in Elfenbein (1989)
[5]
Baluch, Muhammad Sardar Khan (1977). History of Baluch Race and Baluchistan. Gosha-e-Adab : distributors Nisa Trader. p. 268. ...Bizanjo, Mengal, Sajdi and Zehri as Jadgal or Jats...
[6]
Pastner, Stephen (15 June 2011). "Conservatism and Change in a Desert Feudalism: The Case of Southern Baluchistan". The Nomadic Alternative. De Gruyter Mouton. p. 249. doi:10.1515/9783110810233.247. ISBN 978-90-279-7520-1.

Elfenbein, Josef (1989). "Brahui". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. IV/4: Bolbol I–Brick. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 433–443. ISBN 978-0-71009-127-7.

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