Kach

Kach (कच) is a gotra of Jats.

History

H. W. Bellew writes that The seventeenth satrapy mentioned by Herodotus comprised the Parikanoi and Asiatic Ethiopians. It corresponds with the modern Balochistan — the Gadrosia or Gedrosia of Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, etc., and comrises all that mountainous, arid, sterile, and for the most part desert and sparsely inhabited region which extends from the Indus to the Persian province of Kirman, east and west ; and is bounded on the north by the sandy desert separating it from Kandahar and Sistan, and on the south by the Arabian Sea. The western portion of this region belongs to Persia, and is distinguished as Persian Balochistan; it is for the most part covered by the Sarhad mountain ranges and plateaux, and contains the districts of Sarhad, Rampur (the town of that name being the capital of this division of Balochistan), Dizak, Gah, etc. The eastern portion belongs to India, and is called Kalat Balochistan (the town of that name being the capital of this division of Balochistan), and contains the provinces of Sarawan, Jhalawan, Kach Gandawa, Las Bela, and Kaj Makran. Anciently the name of the whole of this region, now called Balochistan, was, it would seem, Kash, Kach, or Kaj (or Kush or Kuj, as the Persians pronounce it), that name appearing both in its eastern and western divisions as Kach Gandava and Kach or Kaj Makran respectively ; and it was inhabited by the Kash or Kach race (Cush of the Bible — " Gush begat Nimrod"), the Asiatic Ethiopians of Herodotus. From these Kash or Kach derives the great Kashwaha or Kachwaha (Kushwaha or Kuchwaha) of the Rajput genealogies.

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