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Kutchi Memons are an Indian Muslim Community and an ethnic group from Kutch in Gujarat, India, who are Kutchi people speaking the Kutchi language. They are related to the Memons associated with the historic state of Kathiawar, a Muslim community of Pakistan and India , who speak the Memoni language .
The Memon are a Muslim community in Gujarat India, and Sindh, Pakistan, the majority of whom follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. [4] They are divided into different groups based on their origins: Kathiawari Memons , Kutchi Memons and Bantva Memons from the Kathiawar , Kutch and Bantva regions of Gujarat respectively, and Sindhi Memons from ...
The Kutchi Memons are a Kutchi people who converted from Hinduism to Islam in the 15th century A.D., due to the influence of Sunni Pirs, such as Saiyid Abdullah. [3] Kutchis, being a part of the Indian diaspora, have maintained their traditions abroad; in 1928, Kutchi Hindus in Nairobi held a Swaminarayan procession in which 1200 people attended. [4]
Most of them are said to have originated in Sindh and speak a dialect of Kutchi which has many Sindhi loanwords. Major Maldhari communities include the Soomra, Sandhai Muslims, Rajputs, Jats, Halaypotra, Hingora, Hingorja, Juneja. [33] The other important Muslim community is the Khatiawari Memon community, that migrated and resettled beyond ...
The Memon community is generally divided into three major subgroups, Kathiawari Memons, who originated in the Kathiawar region (who speak Memoni), Sindhi Memons (who speak Sindhi) and Kutchi Memons (who speak Kutchi). The Memon people from Kathiawar were Muslims who followed Hanafi Islam.
In the 18th–19th century, they began working for the British. They currently are generally involved in clerical jobs in government offices, as working in posts of revenue collectors and other senior positions. They originally composed 10–15% of the Lohana community continued to draw members from those castes. [15] [14]
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Kutchi language, language spoken in the Kutch district as well as Sindh, Pakistan Kutchi people, speakers of the language; Kutchi cinema, Kutchi-language film industry in India; Kutchi-Swahili, creole of the Indian diaspora in Africa, derived from the Kutchi and Swahili languages; Kutchi Memon, Indian ethnic group of the Memon people