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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 ...
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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)
The following are some of the tribal names in Pakistan. Naming system Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention , cultural names and ancestral names.
Jat Muslim or Musalman Jat (Punjabi: جٹ مسلمان; Sindhi: مسلمان جاٽ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (Punjabi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəʈːᵊ]), are an elastic and diverse [1] ethno-social subgroup of the Jat people, who are composed of followers of Islam and are native to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. [2]
• 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 .
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.