Sindhis of Balochistan

The true Balochs along with Kurds were natives of northwestern Iran, near caspian sea,{{Cite book |last=Kreyenbroek |first=Philip G |title=Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik: Companion Volume II: History of Persian Literature A, Volume 18. |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-0857732651 |publication-date=2010}}{{pn|date=July 2024}} their language also supports this, which is based on one of the Western Iranian languages,{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Encyclopaedia Iranica |title=Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica |url=https://iranicaonline.org/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=iranicaonline.org |language=en-US}} the balochs first migrated to eastern Iran like Kerman, Khorasan during late Sasanian period. The Arab writers also mentioned them living in eastern regions of Iran around 9th century, from eastern Iran later migrated to southeast of Iran, while some also migrated to Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.{{Cite book |last=Spooner |first=Brian |title=Baluchistan: Geogr Baluchistan: Geography, History, and Ethnogr , and Ethnography. |year=1988 |language=English}}

The second eastward migration of balochs took place in 971–972, when they were pushed eastwards by Persian, Turkic and Arab dynasties like Buyids, Ghaznavids and Seljuqs, who were fed up of acts of plundering and looting of caravans in those routes.{{Cite web |last=Brian |first=Spooner |title="BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography" |url=https://iranicaonline.org/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=iranicaonline.org |language=en-US}}

The Balochs called all the Indigenous Sindhis they interacted with as "Jadgals" which is an umbrella term for all Sindhi communities, including Jats, Meds, Sammats and Gurjars. Historically Jadgal term was used by balochs to distinguish between a Sindhi and pure baloch.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

Over the time, Balochs started to call the local people by different names of their area of living or by the language they speak, for example, the Buledis of Buleda, and the Kolachis of Kulanch. The Buledi and Kolachi are now tribes of Balochistan, which probably can also be Jats originally.{{cn|date=July 2024}} For others, the Balochs called them by their language, like Jadgali for Sindhi-speaking people,{{Cite book |last=Delforooz |first=Behrooz Barjasteh |title=A sociolinguistic survey among the Jagdal in Iranian Balochistan". In Jahani, Carina; Korn, Agnes; Titus, Paul Brian (eds.). The Baloch and others: linguistic, historical and socio-political perspectives on pluralism in Balochistan. Wiesbaden |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-89500-591-6 |pages=23–44 |publisher=Reichert Verlag |language=English}} Jatki for Sindhi and Saraiki speaking, and Kurdgali for Brahui speaking.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

The fourth migration of balochs happened in 13th–14th into present day Sindh and south Punjab.{{Cite web |last=Michael |first=Mann |title=Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Volume 1, The Earth System: Physical and Chemical Dimensions of Global Environmental Change |url=http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf |access-date=2024-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124223238/http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-24 }}{{Cite web |date=2014-03-27 |title=From Zardaris to Makranis: How the Baloch came to Sindh |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/688234/from-zardaris-to-makranis-how-the-baloch-came-to-sindh |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}

In 635 or 636 CE, the Sindhi Hindu Brahman dynasty of Sindh ruled parts of balochistan under Chach of Aror. Later in the rule of Kalhoras, Arghuns, Sammas, Soomras, and Talpurs many areas of Balochistan were under Sindh province.{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. |publisher=Routledge |year=2005 |isbn=1-57958-468-3 |editor-last=Skutsch |editor-first=Carl |location=New York |pages=178 |language=English}}

Over the time, Sindhis of Balochistan divided into different regional communities, the Jadgals of Makran speak the Jadgali dialect of Sindhi language; the Lasis of Lasbela speak the Lasi dialect of Sindhi; the Jamotes and Jats of Kachhi Plain speak Firaqi Sindhi or Siraiki dialects, the Khetrans and Jaffars of Kohe Sulaiman speak Khetrani and Jaffarki language of Sindhi origin, there are also other Jat/Jutt people scattered all over Balochistan. They were mentioned as "Zutts" in early Arab writings and "Jat-an" in Persian, In the 7th century, when Arabs came to Sindh,{{cn|date=July 2024}} they found Sindhi Jats living in the lower Indus valley and Makran region, which at that time were all part of Sindh.{{Cite book |last=Wink |first=André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2m7_R5P2oAC&q=zutt+bahram+v |title=Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7Th-11th Centuries |date=2002 |publisher=Brill|isbn=978-0-391-04173-8 |language=en}}{{pn|date=July 2024}}{{Cite book |last=Biladuri |first=Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Jabir Al |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcWtttJL3WEC&q=sayabijah |title=The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied With Annotations, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-buldan |date=2011-03-01 |publisher=Cosimo |isbn=978-1-61640-534-2 |language=en}}{{pn|date=July 2024}}

These regional Sindhi people of Balochistan have many tribes/Castes and clans of their own. Most of them are Sindhi Muslim Sammat/Jamote, Jats, Jadgals, Meds, Rajputs, Gurjar, Khojas etc,{{Cite book |last=Tyagi |first=Vidya Prakash |title=Martial races of undivided India |date=2009 |publisher=Gyan Publishing House |isbn=978-81-7835-775-1 |pages=225 |language=en |quote="The Jhalwan Gujjars speak both Balochi and Sindhi languages and claim to be natives of these regions without having ancestry of any foreign element in so far as their ethnic traditions are concerned. In the region the Zamindars (landlords) are called Baloch. The other Pakistani Blauch and adjoining Irani Bluches are of one ancestry but against this we hail from separate Gujjar community. As per one tradition they have come from Delhi to this area and speak Sindhi language. In Markan, near border of Iran, the Gujjars are Ziki by faith and claim to have come from Mewar during the time of Akbar, the elderly Gujjars added."}} Hindu/Muslim Lohana, Bhatia, Brahmins, Kshtriyas, Shudras, other trading Hindu tribes, Rabari, and other tribal Hindu Sindhi tribes like Bheel, Meghwar, etc. Many Hindu tribes converted to Islam, the remaining Hindus migrated first to Sindh and then after partition into India,{{Cite web |title=Hindu Castes and Sects of Shahdadkot Sindh 2014 - (PDF) |url=https://vdocuments.mx/hindu-castes-and-sects-of-shahdadkot-sindh-2014.html |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=vdocuments.mx |language=en}} but there is still a small minority of Hindu Sindhis living in Balochistan, and there are also some Arab, Mughal and Sheedi origin Sindhi tribes of Balochistan.

• Lasi People
• Jadgal People
• Jamote People
• Khetran People
• Jats of Balochistan
• Kholosi Language
• Hinduism in Balochistan

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