History
Kulachi tribe are found in Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad Khan, Layyah, Jodho, Dera Fateh Khan Kulachi and ruled the area till lost their control and dispersed to other areas of Derajat. Kulachi city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa still bears name of the tribe.
The Imperial Gazetteer India, Volume 11, Page 270 describes as follows:
| “ | The Derajat owes its existence as an historical area to the Baloch immigration in the fifteenth century. Sultan Hussain, the Langah sovereign of Multan, being unable to hold his trans-Indus possessions, called in Baloch mercenaries, and assigned these territories to Malik Sohrab Dodai in jagir. Sohrab's sons, Ismail and Fateh Khan, founded the two deras or 'settlements' named after them; while Haji Khan, the head of the old Mirani tribe of the Balochs, who had also entered the service of Langahs, assumed independence in the reign of Mahmud, Sultan Hussein's grandson, and founded Dera Ghazi Khan, naming it after his son and successor. When Haji Khan died in 1494, the tract was a deserted waste but contained a few isolated towns. The Miranis soon came into conflict with the Nahars, who ruled the country on the Indus to the south, the boundary between the rival powers lying north of Rajanpur; but the Miranis also held some territory east of the Indus in the modern District of Muzaffargarh. On Babar's conquest of Northern India in 1526, the Miranis submitted to him, and at his death the Derajat became a dependency of his son Kamran, the ruler of Kabul. Under Humayun, the Baloch immigration increased and they gradually pushed the Nahars farther south. All the Baloch tribes acknowledged the overlordship of the Mirani Nawabs who ruled for about fifteen generations at Dera Ghazi Khan, taking alternately the style of 'Haji' and 'Ghazi Khan'. At Dera Ismail Khan ruled the Hot Baloch chiefs, who bore the title of Ismail Khan from father to son and also held Darya Khan and Bhakkar, east of the Indus. Early in the eighteenth century the Miranis lost their supremacy, being overwhelmed by the Kalhoras of Sind; and when in 1739 Nadir Shah acquired all the territory west of the Indus, he made the Mirani Wazir and Mahmud Khan Gujar Governor in Dera Ghazi Khan under the Kalhora chief who also became his vassal. Under Ahmed Shah Durrani the Kalhoras and the Miranis, now in a state of decadence, contended for possession of Dera Ghazi Khan, but Mahmud Khan Gujar appears to have been its real governor. He was succeeded by his nephew, who was killed in 1779, and the Durranis then appointed governors direct for a period of thirty two years. Meanwhile the lost of the Hot chiefs of Dera Ismail Khan had been deposed in 1770, and his territories were also administered from Kabul. In 1794 Humayun Shah attempted to deprive Zaman Shah Durrani of his kingdom, but he was defeated and fell into the hands of Muhammad Khan Sadozai, governor of the Sind-Sagar Doab. As a reward for this capture, Zaman Shah bestowed the province of Dera Ismail Khan on Nawab Muhammad Khan who governed it from Mankera by deputy. His son-in-law, Hafiz Ahmad Khan, surrendered at Mankera to Ranjit Singh in 1821, and at the same time tribute was imposed by the Sikhs on the chiefs of Tank (Sarwar Khan)and Sagar. Dera Fateh Khan was also occupied; but Dera Ismail Khan, to which Hafiz ahamd Khan was permitted to retire on the fall of Mankera, remained independent till 1836 when Nao Nihal sigh deposed Muhammad Khan, the son of Hafiz ahamd Khan, and appointed Diwan Lakhi Mal to be Kardar. | ” |
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