Chaush

 ( Arab Diaspora In India ) 

The Chaush or Chaus are a community who are of Hadhrami people Arab descent. They are found in the Deccan region of India.Omar Khalidi, The Arabs of Hadramawt in Hyderabad in Mediaeval Deccan History, eds Kulkarni, Naeem and de Souza, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996, pg 63

The Chaush or Chaus were brought from Yemen to work in the former Hyderabad State as military men 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 Soldiers. A home for the Chaush community, The Hindu, 25 Sep 2011 They are most concentrated in Marathwada, Telangana and Hyderabad-Karnataka regions, and most of their population is concentrated in the neighbourhoods of Barkas in Hyderabad, Shasha Mahallah in Karimnagar, Al-Tamash in Aurangabad. They also live in Adilabad, Asifabad, Kagaznagar, Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar and Warangal.

The founders of both the Qu'aiti and Kathiri states in Hadhramawt had previously served as in Hyderabad.

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Cuisine The Hyderabadi haleem, Hyderabadi marag (mutton stew), murtabak, shorba, harira, mandi, kabsa, maqluba, Tas kebab, lukhmi, sheer khurma, qubani ka meetha and malida have been introduced in Hyderabad by the Chaush or Arabs.

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See also

• Barkas
• Shasha Mahallah
• Chiaus
• Hyderabadi Pahalwan
• Siddi

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Further reading

• 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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