Chaush

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Chaush literally means a guide (in ????), but in India they are the one who migrated to India in the 18th century. They have a big community mainly in the Deccan region of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. They have relatives living/working in the Gulf region and many of them still holding Yemeni nationality. They came here in search of work especially from Yemen. They worked here with the Nizam of Hyderabad. they have settled well over here and hold the Indian citizenship. They still have maintained the Arab culture in them. Most of them can't speak Arabic but they still want to be called Arabs.^{[citation needed]}