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Indian Muslim community of Arab origin
The
Chaush
or
Chaus
are an Indian
Muslim
community who are
Hadhrami
Arab
descent. They are found in the
Deccan
region of India.
[1]
[2]
The Chaush or Chaus were brought from Yemen to work in the former
Hyderabad State
as military men and body guards for the
Nizams
. It is said that especially when it came to safe guarding his family, the
7th Nizam
had absolute trust on these Arab bodyguards.
[3]
They are most concentrated in
Marathwada
,
Telangana
and
Hyderabad-Karnataka
regions and most numbers of their population concentrated in the neighbourhood of
Barkas
in
Hyderabad
city and
Aurangabad
city
[3]
The founders of both the
Qu'aiti
and
Kathiri
states in
Hadhramawt
had previously served as
jemadars
in
Hyderabad
.
[4]
Among the cultural contributions of the Chaush to India are
Marfa
music and dance, and
Hyderabadi haleem
, both which are culturally important to the
Hyderabadi Muslim people
, and seen at almost all wedding ceremonies.
[5]
Culture
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Cuisine
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The Hyderabadi Haleem and
Mandi
have been introduced in Hyderabad by the Chaush people.
[6]
[7]
See also
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References
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]
- ^
Omar Khalidi,
The Arabs of Hadramawt in Hyderabad
in Mediaeval Deccan History, eds Kulkarni, Naeem and de Souza, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996, pg 63
- ^
Mediaeval Deccan History, eds Kulkarni, M A Naeem and de Souza, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996, pg 63,
https://books.google.com/books?id=O_WNqSH4ByQC&pg=PA63
- ^
a
b
A home for the Chaush community
,
The Hindu
, 25 Sep 2011
- ^
Boxberger, Linda. On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s. 2002.
State University of New York Press
- ^
"From the era of the Nizams 'Arabi marfa' continues to be a hit even now"
.
The Hindu
. 26 October 2012.
ISSN
0971-751X
. Retrieved
19 March
2016
.
- ^
"Crossing culinary landscapes, exploring Yemeni cuisine at Osmania University"
.
- ^
Mohammed, Syed (13 January 2018).
"Mandi and the Arabian connection"
.
The Hindu
.
Further reading
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]
- Leif Manger,3
Hadramis in Hyderabad: From Winners to Losers
,
Asian Journal of Social Science
, Volume 35, Numbers 4?5, 2007, pp. 405?433(29)
- Engseng Ho,
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean
,
University of California Press
, 2006
- Ababu Minda Yimene,
An African Indian community in Hyderabad
, Cuvillier Verlag, 2004, pg 201
- Hadhrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean:1750s-1960s By-Ulrike Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith
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