Note 114 — Volume II. (continued 2)

Biloch, Baloch, Biluch.—Identified by Professor Max Müller114 with the Sanskrit mlechchha, “a foreigner, outcast, non-Aryan.”—The enumeration at the last Census has failed to discriminate between two different though probably originally-allied races—the ordinary Biloch and the predatory Biloch or Rind of the Districts of the Upper Duâb. Another theory of the origin of the name is given by Colonel Möckler in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1893:—