MIR HAMMAL-I-JIAND REFERENCES FROM BALOCHI HEROIC EPIC

Abstract

Oral historiography has been a great source of reconstructing the histories of those people and regions where there written traditions are seldom practiced. Balochistan is one such region where folk literature is the source of history keeping by its natives. The precolonial era of the region is full of such epics and heroic stories of persons, events and tragedies where human achievements and disasters are remembered in common folk tales, poetries and stories. The present paper is an attempt for reconstructing one of the episodes of Baloch history, where common people have resisted one of the colonial powers (Portuguese). The story of resistance is reconstructed by the help of Balochi poetry and it has been endeavored that the story could be told from a native perspective. The content analysis method is applied and logical interpretations are made in the paper.