Sindhi Rajput
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| (Sindh) Pakistan | |
| Languages | |
| Sindhi • Seraiki | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| • Muslim Rajputs • Rajput |
Sindhi Rajputs (Sindhi: سنڌي راجپوت) are Sindhi people belonging to the Rajput community and living in Sindh, Pakistan.
Major Sindhi Rajput clans
Here is a brief description of the major Sindhi Rajput clans:
- Joyo or Johiya form part of a communities of tribes known as the Sarai that migrated from Punjab in the 18th Century. *Junejo are a clan of Samma Rajputs.
- Kharal are a clan of the Sarais who immigrated from Punjab in the 18th Century.
- Mahar are a clan of Bhatti Rajputs, and as such are a Chandravanshi clan.
- Mangrio are a clan of the Chandravanshi Rajputs. Magrio or Mangria is a clan of Meos. Sindhi Sipahi clans Junejo, Samma, Pano and Mangrio comes from Meos of Rajasthan.
- Naru Rajput
- Panhwar or Panwar or Parmar are an Agnivanshi Rajput clan.
- Rathore are a Suryavanshi Rajput clan. Most of the Rathore have remained Hindu.
- Rajpar or Rajper are the descendants of Sammat.
- The Samma claim Yaduvanshi descent.
- Sahito
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Sindhi-Sipahi of Rajasthan
The Sindh-Sipahi originally belonged to the family of Chandravanshi Rajputs.[1]
They are sub-divided into various tribes, such as the Bhatti, Sodha, Tonwar , Sahito and Rathore, and further divided into firkas or sub-clans. Their main firkas are the Samma, Saand, Gajju, Bhayyo, Panno, Sithar, and Mahar. The Samma clan is named for its founder and traces its pedigree to Bhati Rajputs.[1]
Prominent Sindhi Rajputs
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan & Former President of Pakistan.[2]
- Muhammad Khan Junejo, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Sardar Imtiaz Hussain Phulpoto to Sardar of Phulpoto Community and Ex-MPA of Sindh Assembly during 1985 regime
- Sardar Ali Mohammad Mahar Former Chief Minister of Sindh
- Arbab Raheem - Former Chief Minister of Sindh
- Jan Muhammad Junejo - was a prominent leader of the Khilafat Movement
- Anwar Solangi - was a noted Pakistani television and radio artist
- Rana Bhagwandas (Hindu Rajput) - former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Rana Chandra Singh (Hindu Rajput) - was a Pakistani politician, a former federal minister and the chieftain of the Pakistani Hindu Sodha Thakur Rajput clan and the former Amarkot (present day Umerkot) jagir Naghar were converted to Islam.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Castes of Marwar by Munshi Hardyal Singh page 43
- ↑ "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto". Encyclopædia Britannica.