the utmost skill, taste
and simplicity. He had a great admiration for the waltzes of Strauss,
and in many passages of his own works the _entrain_ that is
characteristic of the Viennese dance-writers is present in a striking
degree.

See also W.H. Hadow, _Studies in Modern Music_ (2nd series, 1908); and
the articles MUSIC, SONG. (J. A. F. M.)

BRAHUI, a people of Baluchistan, inhabiting the Brahui mountains, which
extend continuously from near the Bolan Pass to Cape Monze on the
Arabian Sea. The khan of Kalat, the native ruler of Baluchistan, is
himself a Brahui, and a lineal descendant of Kumbar, former chief of the
Kumbarini, a Brahui tribe. The origin of the Brahuis is an ethnological
mystery. Bishop Robert Caldwell and other authorities declare them
Dravidians, and regard them as the western borderers of Dravidian India.
Others believe them to be Scythians,[1] and others again connect them
with Tatar mountaineers who early settled in southern parts of Asia.
The origin of the word itself is in doubt. It is variously derived as a
corruption of the Persian _Ba Rohi_ (literally "of the hills"); as an
eponym from Braho, otherwise Brahin or Ibrahim, a legendary hero of
alleged Arab descent who led his people "out of the west," while Dr
Gustav Oppert believes that the name is in some way related to, if not
identical with, that of the Baluchis. He recognizes in the name of the
Paratas and Paradas, who dwelt in north-eastern Baluchistan, the origin
of the modern Brahui. He gives reasons for regarding the _Bra_ as a
contraction of Bara and obtains "thus in Barahui a name whose
resemblance to that of the ancient Barrhai (the modern Bhars), as well
as to that of the Paratas and Paravar and their kindred the Maratha
Paravari and Dravidian Parheyas of Palaman, is striking." The Brahuis
declare themselves to be the aborigines of the country they now occupy,
their ancestors coming from Aleppo. For this there seems little
foundation, and their language, which has no affinities with Persian,
Pushtu or Baluchi, must be, according to the most eminent scholars,
classed among the Dravidian tongues of southern India. Probably the
Brahuis are of Dravidian stock, a branch long isolated from their
kindred and much Arabized, and thus exhibiting a marked hybridism.

Whatever their origin, the Brahuis are found in a position of
considerable power in Baluchistan from earliest times. Their authentic
history begins with Mir Ahmad,