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Rh Brabuis are representative of the that Rigvedic race.

Thus we have reason to believe that racially the Brahuis are connected with the Iranians, just like the Baluchis alongside of whom they live. Most probably they belong to the group of the Paisaci speaking peoples, those non-Sanskritic Iranians who entered India before the Aryan immigration. But now they are like the Baluchis, so much influenced by Arab and Turkish influences that their Iranian identity is much obscured.

According to the census of 1921, the Brahuis number 137,082 souls in Baluchistan and are a little more than 200,000 including those found in Sindh In Baluchistan itself they are the majority group. In Kelat, they number 130.437 and in Chagal 1,404. But they form the minority in Quetta, Pishin, Sili and Las Bela and Bolan There are no Brahuis in the rest of