Nizamani

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Nizamani is the name of a Baloch Rind tribe in Sindh (Hyderabad) province of Pakistan who originally spoke Siraiki and are decedents of Nizam u din a saint and his tomb is stil in Dera Ghazi Khan Punjabi.

The history of the Nizamani started with history of the Balochs. There were 44 tribes of Balochs who came from the Middle East to Kurdistan Iran, then finally to present-day Balochistan and Rind tribe was ruler among them. Mir Chakar Khan Rind popularly known as Chaker-e-Azam was chief of all Baloch tribes. Slowly the tribes were expanded and there land also, from whole Balochistan to Multan which was there head quarter, so there were different new sub tribes came into being from Rind tribe, and Nizamani tribe also came in this way. The name Nizamani was taken from the name Nizam a father of all Nizamanis he was a great poet and a saint of his time. Now his grave is in Dera Ismail khan and known as Sakhi Nizam.

In the Talpur dynasty they served in their army as spokeman for them. Moreoften, they used to travel to Afghanistan. Nizamanis never inherited lands or undue benefits from the rulers. Recently we come to know that there is pathan tribe named as Nizamkhel in Afganistan, claimed to be an off shoot of Nizamani tribe who speak pushto.

In the 18th century they migrated in very large numbers into Sindh and thorughout Pakistan. Majority of them are settled in Tando Qaiser, Sanghar, Matli, Tando Soomro, Nim Jo Goth, Rajo Nizamani, Bakar Nizamani, Qazi Jo Goth, Sheehan Nizamani, Matiari, Tando Muhammad khan, Badin, Hyderabad, Golarchi, Talhaar, Larkana, Dadu, Khairpur; now due to job and better education they have spread out through out Pakistan in the cities like Gujranwala, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad and Wah Cantt. Now they are migrating to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Seattle/Texas/NY-USA, Sydney-Australia, France, Toronto/Calgary Alberta/British Columbia Vancouver/Manitoba/Saskatoon Saskatchewan/-Canada, Deseldof-Germany and UK.

Basically they are Sunni Muslims strictly believing in purdah. Better education and media is playing its role chaning ways of traditional thinking. A new positive trend of involving in Tableeghi Jamaat has started in the community, Sufi movement and Agnosticism are very popular among younger generation, especially in Tando Qaiser. Their custom of greeting and social interaction is tremendous. They are very friendly and warm hearted people and are family oriented. Their political awareness is far superior than the most of other cummunities living in Sindh but due to unknown reason they are yet to influence the politics of Sindh. Politically most of the them are influenced from MRD movement, Awami Tehreek of Shaheed Fazil Raahoo, Hari tehreek & Communist movement; even in some cases Jammat-e-Islami.

Historically they are agriculture-based community that's why they were very late in education race. But this trend is rapidly changing as they are now more willing to send their children for better education, for that purpose they are shifting to urban areas.

One interesting fact is that you will find Talpurs & Sheedi community(the black people of African origin)where ever Nizamanis are living, except in Tando Qaiser where there are no Talpurs.

Approximately Twenty Thousand (20,000) Nizamani's live in a town called Tando Qaiser [25°22'53"N, 68°30'59"E]located at nearly 15 km East of Hyderabad city Sindh; famous for Mangoes and Jujube berries creating a business cycle of approximately one billion rupees every year.