List of Sindhi tribes explained
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 Gujjars, 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]
Muslim Sindhi tribes
Sindhi Sammat tribes
F
I
- Isran
- Issani/Essani
- Ibupotro/Ibupoto
P
Q
Z
- Zangejo
- Zindpur
- Zonr/Zounr
Sindhi Muslim revert tribes
Hindu Sindhi tribes
Lohana (Bhaiband, Sahti, Amil), Waniya, Arora
E
I
O
U
- Ukrani
- Uttwani
- Uttamsinghani
- Uttamchandani
W
Sindhi Brahmin, Vaishya, Kshatriya tribes
Other Sindhi tribes
Uncategorized
A
C
H
N
O
P
Q
R
U
W
Z
Arab, Turkic and Mughal Sindhi tribes
B
F
G
J
L
N
P
Q
R
T
U
References
General
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- Book: Commissioner, India Census . Census of India, 1901 . 1902 . Printed at the Government central Press . en.
- Book: Commissioner, India Census . Census of India, 1911 ... . 1912 . Superintendent government printing, India . en.
- Web site: The Tribes & Castes of Shahdadkot Taluka, Sindh 1701-2013 - [PDF Document] ]. 2023-05-31 . vdocuments.mx . en.
- Book: Ansari, Sheikh Sadik Ali Sher Ali . The Musalman Races found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan. . 1901 . En.
- Web site: Mohana tribe, the descendants of Mohenjo Daro . 2023-05-18 . Last Places . en-US.
- Web site: 2018-07-18 . The disenfranchised gypsies . 2023-05-18 . Daily Times . en-US.
- Web site: Sindh's changing history . 2023-05-18 . www.thenews.com.pk . en.
- Book: Gazetteer of the Province of Sind ... . 1907 . government at the "Mercantile" steam Press . en.
- Web site: Sindhishaan - Sindh n Sindhis . 2023-05-18 . sindhishaan.com.
- Web site: Rattibha . 2023-05-18 . en.rattibha.com.
- Web site: Sharma . Shiksha . 2021-01-24 . Sindhis are not a caste-free society. My interviews show it is just a false claim . 2023-05-18 . ThePrint . en-US.
- Web site: 2023-01-25 . Popular Sindhi Surnames List . 2023-05-18 . en-US.
- Web site: Buriro Sewhani . Khair Mohammad . Zaatin Ji Encyclopaedia .
- Web site: Sindhis - The Scattered Treasure Sindhi Sangat . 2023-05-18 . www.sindhisangat.com.
- Web site: Sindhishaan - Caste System . 2023-05-18 . sindhishaan.com.
- Web site: Biswas . Madhurima . 2020-02-12 . Arora tribe . 2023-05-18 . MomJunction . en-US.
- Thatra . Geeta . 2022-11-24 . Differentiated Rehabilitation and the Geographies of Unfreedom in Post-Colonial Bombay . Journal of Sindhi Studies . 2 . 2 . 1–40 . 10.1163/26670925-bja10010 . 254305645 . 2667-0925.
- Web site: Castes and Surnames . 2023-05-31 . www.drpathan.com.
Notes and References
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- Book: Khan, Hussain Ahmad . Re-Thinking Punjab: The Construction of Siraiki Identity . 2004-08-01 . Research and Publication Centre, National College of Arts, Lahore . 978-969-8623-09-8 . en.
- Book: Ibbetson . Sir Denzil . Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province . Maclagan . 1990 . Asian Educational Services . 978-81-206-0505-3 . en.
- Book: DADUZEN, Dayal N. Harjani aka . Sindhi Roots & Rituals - Part 1 . 2018-07-19 . Notion Press . 978-1-64249-289-7 . en.
- Book: Faiz, Asma . In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan . 2021-12-09 . Hurst Publishers . 978-1-78738-632-7 . en.
- Book: Neuman . Daniel M. . Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan . Chaudhuri . Shubha . Kothari . Komal . 2005 . Seagull . 978-1-905422-07-4 . en.
- Book: Bhavnani, Nandita . The Making of Exile: Sindhi Hindus and the Partition of India . 2014 . Tranquebar Press . 978-93-84030-33-9 . en.
- Book: Falzon, Mark-Anthony . Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000 . 2004 . BRILL . 978-90-04-14008-0 . en.
- Web site: Sindhishaan - Whats in Name . 2023-05-18 . sindhishaan.com.
- Book: Thapan, Anita Raina . Sindhi Diaspora in Manila, Hong Kong, and Jakarta . 2002 . Ateneo University Press . 978-971-550-406-5 . en.
- Book: Bhanu, B. V. . Maharashtra . 2004 . Popular Prakashan . 978-81-7991-102-0 . en.
- Book: Sherring, Matthew A. . Hindu Tribes and Castes: As Represented in Benares ; with Illustrations . 1879 . Thacker . en.
- Book: Nahyan . Mansoor Bin Tahnoon Al . Tribes of Pakistan . Hussain . Jamal . Ghafoor . Asad ul . 2019-05-09 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . 978-1-5275-3439-1 . en.
- Book: Gazetteer of the Province of Sind . 1907 . Government at the "Mercantile" Steam Press . en.
- Book: Gujarat . 2003 . Popular Prakashan . 978-81-7991-106-8 . en.
- Book: Ajwani, Lalsing Hazarising . History of Sindhi Literature . 1984 . Allied Book Company . en.
- Book: Sherring, Matthew A. . Hindu Tribes and Castes: As Represented in Benares ; with Illustrations . 1879 . Thacker . 350 . en.
- Book: Khair Mohammad Buriro Sewhani . ذاتين جي انسائيڪلوپيڊيا . 2005 . Sindhi.
- Web site: Hindu Castes and Sects of Shahdadkot Sindh 2014 - [PDF Document] ]. 2023-05-31 . vdocuments.mx . en.
- Book: Census of India, 1891 . 1892 . en.