Sindhi Sammat

 ( History Of Sindh ) 

The Sammat (; sammāṭ, samāṭr, sammāṭh) is the indigenous community of Sindhis people consisting of old native tribes, they are a large community of Sindhis.

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Hindu Sammats are also extant.

Sammat refers to Sindhis with indigenous origins.

The Sammat tribes have existed in the region since ancient times.

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The Sammats are considered to be a traditionally privileged group in the Sindhis society. Sammat rulers were praised by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a popular 18th-century poet of the Sindhi language. In contemporary Sindh, the Sammat castes are regarded as second in rank to and other castes of Arab descent.

The man who worked hard to revive Sammat as Chairman Sammat Tanzeem, was Late Bahawal Khan Unar, who dedicated much part of his life to the cause he was committed to from early 80s to late 90s, since he died in 1998 and after his death things went again on a longe pause till today.

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Subgroups of Sammats

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Sindhi Jats Originally from the lower Indus Valley, many Sindhi Jats would migrate to lower Iraq between the 5th and 11th centuries, where they formed the Zuṭṭ () community.Wink, André (2002). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7Th-11th Centuries. BRILL. . "Sind, in point of fact, while vaguely defined territorially, overlaps rather well with what is currently Pakistan. It definitely did extend beyond the present province of Sind and Makran; the whole of Baluchistan was included, a part of the Panjab, and the North-West Frontier Province."Wink, André (2002). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7Th-11th Centuries. BRILL. . Pg. 48, 157.Maclean, Derryl N. (1984). Religion and Society in Arab Sind. McGill University. . Pg. 45. In the 8th century, the Arab conquerors noted several agglomerations of Jats and Med people found across Lower and Central Sindh.Mayaram, Shail (2003), Against history, against state: counterperspectives from the margins, Columbia University Press, p. 19, Another migration into Punjab took place between the 11th and 16th centuries, where many Sindhi Jats settled in cultivatable land and gradually took up farming.Ansari, Sarah F. D. (1992). Sufi saints and state power: the pirs of Sind, 1843–1947. Cambridge University Press. p. . Quote: "Between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries, groups of nomadic pastoralists known as Jats, having worked their way northwards from Sind, settled in the Panjab as peasant agriculturalists and, largely on account of the introduction of the Persian wheel, transformed much of western Panjab into a rich producer of food crops. (page 27)"Grewal, J. S. (1998), The Sikhs of the Punjab, Cambridge University Press, p. 5, , retrieved 12 November 2011 Quote: "... the most numerous of the agricultural tribes (in the Punjab) were the Jats. They had come from Sindh and Rajasthan along the river valleys, moving up, displacing the Gujjars and the Rajputs to occupy culturable lands. (page 5)"

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Some Sindhi Jats, along with other Sindhis groups such as the Jadgals and Jamote people, are still found in modern Balochistan, such as in the , Las Bela, and Makran.

They are also known as the Jats of Balochistan.

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Soomros The Soomros are a native tribe

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which historically founded the Soomro dynasty (1026-1351), thus re-establishing native rule in Sindh after the Arab conquests. Members of the Soomro tribe were among the first in Sindh to convert to Islam from Hinduism, but they initially practiced a syncretic version, maintaining several Hindu customs and traditions.

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Sammas The Sammas have their origin in Sindh. Initially, Samma communities were confined to Brahmanabad and its neighboring regions.

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They would later overthrow the Soomros and establish the Samma dynasty (1351-1524). The Sultanate kept close ties with the Sultanate of Gujarat,

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and offshoots of the Sammas ( and Chudasamas) would establish themselves in that area.

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The Sandhai Muslims are also connected to the Sammas.

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Kalhoras The Kalhoras are a native Sammat group. They were Ashrafized over time, claiming an Arab "Abbasi" origin, however this claim has been refuted by others. The Kalhoras established a Kalhora dynasty, serving as governors of Sindh and parts of Kutch.

The Daudpotras are an offshoot of the Kalhoras.

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Daudpotras The Daudpotras were a prominent tribe in lower Sindh, closely related to the Kalhoras. The Daudpotras would migrate northwards, and be granted by the Nawab of Multan and Sheikh of Uch, laying the foundations for the Bahawalpur state.

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The state would become a princely state of the British Raj, and would later be the first state to accede to the Dominion of Pakistan.

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See also

• Sindhis of Balochistan
• Med people
• Mahar (tribe)

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Bibliography

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