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The Marri are the Baloch tribe that has most often taken up arms against whoever ruled from the plains, British or Pakistani, and that record is as much a part of Marri identity as the hills they hold. Their country is a block of dry, broken upland in northeastern Balochistan, centered on Kohlu district and the old tribal seat at Kahan, with Pashtun tribes to the north and their Bugti cousins and rivals to the south. Rain is scarce, the valleys grow a little wheat, and for most of their history the Marri lived by moving sheep, goats and camels between seasonal pastures, topped up by raiding the plains below. They speak Eastern Balochi, the Sulemani dialect, a Northwestern Iranian language whose aspirated consonants show centuries of contact with Sindhi and set Marri speech apart from the Balochi of Makran or Rakhshan. Marri families who settled in upper Sindh and around Dera Ghazi Khan generations ago now speak Sindhi or Saraiki and still carry the tribal name.

The tribe traces itself to the Rind and, like other Baloch tribes, grew by absorbing outsiders, who became Marri within a generation or two. Three sections make up the whole, Ghazani, Loharani and Bijarani, each under its own headmen, with the sardar drawn from the Ghazani. Older accounts describe tribal land held in common and periodically reallotted among the sections, a practice that distinguished the Marri from neighbors who held land as families. They are Sunni Muslims, but religion has historically sat lightly beside the tribal code: hospitality that cannot be refused, the duty to shelter anyone who asks for refuge, blood compensation settled by jirga, and loyalty to the sardar over any cleric. In 1840 a British column marching to relieve Kahan was cut to pieces in the passes below the town, and the tribe rose again in 1918 when the British pressed it for wartime recruits and levies. After 1947 the Marri became the backbone of armed Baloch nationalism. Sher Muhammad Marri led the guerrilla bands of the 1960s, and the war of 1973 to 1977 drove thousands of Marri families into southern Afghanistan, where they lived in camps until the early 1990s. Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, tribal chief until his death in 2014, stayed the movement's most uncompromising voice, and his sons split between exile, insurgency and accommodation with the state. Coal at Chamalang and gas exploration around Kohlu keep Marri land at the center of the argument over who owns Balochistan.