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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'.
Pages in category "Sindhi tribes" The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 114 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (Thaheem (tribe) A.
Today many Sindhis live outside Pakistan and India, particularly in Afghanistan, where there are an estimated 25,000 of them, largely engaged in merchant trade. [53] In addition, during the crackdown on separatist groups by Pervez Musharraf an estimated 400-500 Sindhi separatists, along with Balochis , fled to Afghanistan.
Sindhi Pathan (Sindhi: پٺاڻ) are the Sindhified Pashtun communities. They are living in Sindh for centuries and have adopted the norms and culture of Sindh. Many bear the tribes Tareen, Naghar, Agha, and Kakar. The vast majority of Sindhi Pathans originate from Quetta and southern Afghanistan, and a few come from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Sindhi tribes (9 C, 122 P) Sindhi society (1 C) Sufis of Sindh (1 C, 14 P) W. Sindhi women (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Sindhi people" The following 200 pages are in ...
Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...
These regional Sindhi people of Balochistan have many tribes/Castes and clans of their own. Most of them are Sindhi Muslim Sammat / Jamote , Jats , Jadgals , Meds , Rajputs, Gurjar , Khojas etc, [ 12 ] Hindu/Muslim Lohana , Bhatia , Brahmins , Kshtriyas , Shudras , other trading Hindu tribes, Rabari , and other tribal Hindu Sindhi tribes like ...