KACH GANDAVA, or KACHHI (Kach,

Kej, Kiz)  , a low-lying flat region in Baluchistan separating the Bugti hills from those of Kalat . It is driven, like a wedge, into the frontier mountain system and extends for 150 M. from Jacobabad to Sibi, with nearly as great a breadth at its base on the Sind frontier . Area, 5310 sq. m.; pop . Nor), 82,909 . The Mula pass, which connects it with the Kalat highlands, was once (when the ancient city of Kandabel was the capital of Gandava) a much trodden trade highway, and is still a practicable route though no longer a popular one . The soil is fertile wherever it can be irrigated by the floods brought down from the surrounding hills; but much of the central portion is sandy waste . It is traversed by the North-Western railway . The climate is unhealthy in summer, when pestilential hot winds are sometimes destructive to life . The annual rainfall averages only 3 in . Kachhi, though subject to the khan of Kalat, is administered under the tribal system . There are no schools, dispensaries or gaols . See Baluchistan District Gazetteer, vol. vi .

(Bombay, 1907) .