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Category: Shaikh clans. 1 language. ... Shaikhs in North India; Shaikhzada; Sindhi Shaikh This page was last edited on 26 October 2024, at 18:24 (UTC). ...
Many Shaikhs from North India are descended from Arabs, and adopted 'Shaikh' as their last name through marriage or their job. In Frontier Regions , Punjab of Pakistan, or Kashmir , the title shaikh was given to those who had descended from upper caste natives such as the Brahmins , Kayasthas and Rajputs .
In the Punjab province of British India, comprising Punjab and some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in modern Pakistan as well Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and some parts of Himachal Pradesh in modern India, in 1921, 70.7% of the Punjabi Rajputs were Muslims while 27.7% were Hindus, with the highest percentage of Rajputs found in Rawalpindi ...
They are mostly settled in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India and Karachi, Pakistan. [1] [2] They are also settled in the city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, and also in areas of the Middle East specifically, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Qatar. [3] The Qidwai, together with the Milki, Malik and Chaudhary form a community of substantial landowners.
Mughal clans of Pakistan (1 C, 5 P) S. Samma tribes (2 C, 44 P) Shaikh clans (19 P) Sindhi tribes in India (2 C, 20 P) T. Talpur dynasty (1 C, 21 P)
Shaikh clans (19 P) T. Tribes of Rawalpindi District (4 P) Pages in category "Punjabi tribes" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total.
• Kayastha • Shaikh of Uttar Pradesh • Shaikhs in South Asia The Muslim Kayastha ( Urdu : مسلمان کائستھ ), also known as Siddiqui , [ 1 ] are a community of Muslims, are related to the Kayastha of northern India , mainly modern Uttar Pradesh , who converted to Islam during the rule of the Islamic empires in India .
Shaikh or Sheikh (Sindhi: شيخ), is a Sindhi tribe or caste. The "Shaikh" word is an Arabic term meaning elder of a tribe, lord, revered old man, or Islamic scholar . The Shaikhs of Sindh are one of the major tribe of the Sindhi Muslims ethnic group; they are converted from Sindhi Hindu Lohana / Brahmin tribes.