Sindhi Tribes and Clans
Sindhis (Sindhi : سنڌي, Devanagari : सिन्धी, Romanised : Sin-dhee) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the Sindh province of Pakistan. Besides Sindh the historical homeland of Sindhis are regions like Kacchi Plain , the Lasbela and Makran regions in Balochistan ,[1] the Bahawalpur region[2] of Punjab ,[3] the Kutch region of Gujarat ,[4] [5] and Jaisalmer and Barmer regions of Rajasthan , India.[6] There are many Sindhi-Hindus who migrated to India after partition in 1947.[7] [8]
Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'.[9] [10]
Sindhi people have many Sindhi communities which have many tribes and their clans called "Nukh, Para and Orakh" in Sindhi,[11] some of major Sindhi communities are Sindhi Sammats , Sindhi Rajputs, Sindhi Jats , Sindhi muslim reverts (Memon , Shaikh , Khuwaja ), Sindhi Lohana (Bhaiband , Sahti , Amil ), Sindhi Waniya , Arora , Sindhi fisherpeople (Mohana , Mallah , Med ), Sindhi tribals/articans tribes, and few Arab , Mughal , Turkic and African Sheedi communities, list of Sindhi tribes is given below: [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
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^ Faiz, Asma (2021-12-09). In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan . Hurst Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78738-632-7 .
^ Neuman, Daniel M.; Chaudhuri, Shubha; Kothari, Komal (2005). Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan . Seagull. ISBN 978-1-905422-07-4 .
^ Bhavnani, Nandita (2014). The Making of Exile: Sindhi Hindus and the Partition of India . Tranquebar Press. ISBN 978-93-84030-33-9 .
^ Falzon, Mark-Anthony (2004). Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000 . BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-14008-0 .
^ "Sindhishaan - Whats in Name" . sindhishaan.com . Retrieved 2023-05-18 .
^ Thapan, Anita Raina (2002). Sindhi Diaspora in Manila, Hong Kong, and Jakarta . Ateneo University Press. ISBN 978-971-550-406-5 .
^ Bhanu, B. V. (2004). Maharashtra . Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7991-102-0 .
^ Sherring, Matthew A. (1879). Hindu Tribes and Castes: As Represented in Benares ; with Illustrations . Thacker.
^ Nahyan, Mansoor Bin Tahnoon Al; Hussain, Jamal; Ghafoor, Asad ul (2019-05-09). Tribes of Pakistan . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-3439-1 .
^ Gazetteer of the Province of Sind . Government at the "Mercantile" Steam Press. 1907.
^ Gujarat . Popular Prakashan. 2003. ISBN 978-81-7991-106-8 .
^ Ajwani, Lalsing Hazarising (1984). History of Sindhi Literature . Allied Book Company.
^ Sherring, Matthew A. (1879). Hindu Tribes and Castes: As Represented in Benares ; with Illustrations . Thacker. p. 350.
^ Khair Mohammad Buriro Sewhani (2005). ذاتين جي انسائيڪلوپيڊيا (in Sindhi).
^ "Hindu Castes and Sects of Shahdadkot Sindh 2014 - [PDF Document]" . vdocuments.mx . Retrieved 2023-05-31 .
^ Census of India, 1891 . 1892.