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tuman|tʊˈmɑːn|
[Var. toman1.]
A tribe of Baluchis or Pathans.
[1816H. Pottinger Trav. Beloochistan iv. 62 An assemblage of these Ghedans [sc. tents] constitute a Toomun, or village, and the inhabitants of it a Kheil, or society. ]1907Baluchistan District Gazetteer Ser. III. 372 A tribe is not responsible for the actions of any person who takes up his abode temporarily with it for purposes of cultivation or for grazing. In this case his heirs and his own tuman is responsible for his acts. 1950R. Central Asian Jrnl. XXXVII. 284 There are nine Baloch tumans (tribes) of Dera Ghazi Khan. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 773/3 Each tribe (tuman) consists of several clans and acknowledges one chief, even though in some tuman there are clans in habitual opposition to the chief.
So tumanˈdar, a Baluchi or Pathan chief.
1907Baluchistan District Gazetteer Ser. III. i. 78 Among the Baloch..a chief or tumandár may invite contributions on the occasion of a marriage. 1932Cambr. Hist. India VI. xxv. 455 Casting all fear on one side, he boldly advanced into their mountain retreats and made friends with the tribal chiefs or tumandars. 1979Indo-British Rev. (Madras) VIII. i–ii. 52/2 The Tumandars, or chiefs of the unadministered territory, had come in for their annual reunion with..the political Agent. |