- Lasi
Lasi or Mundra (Urdu: لاسی ) is a Baloch tribe settle in
Lasbela District of Balochistan,Pakistan .The term
Lasi is a geographical name, which is applied to all the tribes other than Baloch and Brahvi, Med, Khoja and Hindus who are settled in Lasbela.The population of Lasbela presents many features of special interest to the ethnologist. The first historical reference to the ancient population of Lasbela and Makran is to be found in Arrian, who divides the population into two distinct classes. The people of the coast whom he names the Ichthyophagoi or fish-eaters and the population of the interior, the ArabiFact|date=August 2008, the OreitaiFact|date=August 2008 and the Gadrosia of Gadrosia or Gedrosia. Several other authors have described the strange race of the Ichthyophagoi who are undoubtedly identifiable with the present fishermen of the coast.
The principal tribes among the Lasis claimFact|date=August 2008 to be descendants of the
Sammas who formerly resided in Sindh. Their tribal names certainly indicate that many of them are of Hindu origin.Fact|date=August 2008Afterwards, the district appears to have come under the influence of the
Samma s, who asserted their independence when the power of the Abbaside caliphs declined. The Sumras gained a position of supremacy in the middle of the eleventh century. They were eventually overthrown by the Sammas under Jam UmarFact|date=August 2008 in 1333. The Sammas reigned till 1523 when they were defeated and their power was completely broken by Shah Hussain ArgonFact|date=August 2008. The succeeding period is again obscure. The chiefs of the Gujar, Ranjha, Gunga and Burfat tribes, who are still to be found in Lasbela, are said to have exercised a semi-independent power previous to the riseFact|date=August 2008 of the Aliani family of the Jamoot tribe, to which the present Jam of Lasbela belongs.The principal Lasi tribes are only five in number, namely Jamot, Ranjha, Sheikh, Angaria and Burraf. These are called the PanjrajFact|date=August 2008 or the five tribal confederacies. Under each Raj are a large number of heterogeneous groups.
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