Sindhis are people living in Balochistan who trace their ancestry to Sindhis living in Sindh province of Pakistan.[1]

History

In 635 or 636 CE, the Sindhi Hindu Brahman dynasty of Sindh ruled parts of Balochistan under Chach of Aror. Later in the rule of Kalhoras, Arghuns, Sammas, Soomras, and Talpurs many areas of Balochistan were in Sindh province.[2] In the 9th century, Arab writers mentioned Balochs to be living in the area between Kerman, Khorasan, Sistan Baluchistan which are now eastern Iran.[1][3]

The Balochs first migrated to the Pakistani province of Balochistan, specifically into the Makran region in the 12th century. Over the time, Balochs started to call the local people by different names of their area of living or by the language they speak, for example, the Buledis of Buleda, and the Kolachis of Kulanch. The Buledi and Kolachi are now tribes of Balochistan, who probably could be Jats originally.[4] For others, the Balochs called them by their language, like Jadgali for Sindhi-speaking people,[5] Jatki for Sindhi and Saraiki speaking, and Kurdgali for Brahui speaking.[6]

Over the time, Sindhis of Balochistan divided into different regional communities, the Jadgals of Makran speak the Jadgali dialect of Sindhi; the Lasis of Lasbela speak the Lasi dialect of Sindhi; the Jamotes and Jats of Kachhi Plain speak Firaqi Sindhi or Siraiki dialects, there are also other Jat/Jutt people scattered all over Balochistan. The Sindhi Jats were mentioned as "Zutts" in early Arab writings and "Jat-an" in Persian, In the 7th century, when Arabs came to Sindh,[7] they found Sindhi Jats living in the lower Indus valley and Makran region, which at that time were all part of Sindh.[8][9][10]

These regional Sindhi people of Balochistan have many tribes/Castes and clans of their own. Most of them are Sindhi Muslim Jats, Rajputs, Gurjar,[11] Hindu/Muslim Lohana, Bhatia, Brahmins, Kshtriyas, Shudras, other trading Hindu tribes, Rabari, and other tribal Hindu Sindhi tribes like Bheel, Meghwar, etc. Many Hindu tribes converted to Islam, the remaining Hindus migrated first to Sindh and then after partition to India,[12] but there is still a small minority of Hindu Sindhis living in Balochistan, and there are also some Arab and Mughal origin Sindhi tribes of Balochistan.

List of Sindhi tribes in Balochistan

Notable people

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Spooner, Brian. "Baluchistan – Geography, History and Ethnography". repository.upenn.edu/. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  2. ↑ Skutsch, Carl, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York: Routledge. p. 178. ISBN 1-57958-468-3.
  3. ↑ Spooner, Brian (1988). Baluchistan: Geogr Baluchistan: Geography, History, and Ethnogr , and Ethnography.
  4. ↑ Dames, Mansel Longworth (1904). The Baloch Race: A Historical and Ethnological Sketch. Royal Asiatic society.
  5. ↑ Delforooz, Behrooz Barjasteh (2008). A sociolinguistic survey among the Jagdal in Iranian Balochistan". In Jahani, Carina; Korn, Agnes; Titus, Paul Brian (eds.). The Baloch and others: linguistic, historical and socio-political perspectives on pluralism in Balochistan. Wiesbaden. pp. 23–44. ISBN 978-3-89500-591-6.
  6. ↑ bkbaluch (2015-10-25). "Kurd and Baloch". Mankind. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  7. ↑ Dashti, Naseer (October 2012). The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4669-5896-8.
  8. ↑ Wikeley, Lt. Col. J.M. (1970). Punjabi Musalmans (Second ed.). Lahore: The Book House. pp. 8–9.
  9. ↑ Wink, André (2002). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7Th-11th Centuries. Brill. ISBN 978-0-391-04173-8.
  10. ↑ Biladuri, Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Jabir Al (2011-03-01). The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied With Annotations, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-buldan. Cosimo. ISBN 978-1-61640-534-2.
  11. ↑ Tyagi, Vidya Prakash (2009). Martial races of undivided India. Gyan Publishing House. p. 225. ISBN 978-81-7835-775-1. The Jhalwan Gujjars speak both Balochi and Sindhi languages and claim to be natives of these regions without having ancestry of any foreign element in so far as their ethnic traditions are concerned. In the region the Zamindars (landlords) are called Baloch. The other Pakistani Blauch and adjoining Irani Bluches are of one ancestry but against this we hail from separate Gujjar community. As per one tradition they have come from Delhi to this area and speak Sindhi language. In Markan, near border of Iran, the Gujjars are Ziki by faith and claim to have come from Mewar during the time of Akbar, the elderly Gujjars added.
  12. ↑ "Hindu Castes and Sects of Shahdadkot Sindh 2014 - (PDF)". vdocuments.mx. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
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