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Hussaini Brahmins are a Mohyal Brahmin community of the Punjab region.
The Mohyal community comprises seven sub-clans named Bali, Bhimwal, Chhibber, Datt, Lau, Mohan and Vaid.
However, as consistent with their Hindu tradition, they have adopted non-Indic traditions. This has led to a small sub-set of the Moyhal community paying reverence to Islam, most notably to the third Imam Hussain.[1]
According to V. Upadhyaya[2] they were influenced by the Chisti Sufis. While they wear the yajnopavita and the tilak, they take alms from only the Muslims, and not from Hindus.[3] Some of them are found in Pushakar, Ajmer, where Mu'in al-Din Chishti is buried.[4] According to another tradition, Yazid's troops had brought Imam Husain's head to their ancestors home in Sialkot. In exchange for his head, the ancestor exchanged his own sons' heads.[5]
Few families can still be found in parts of Iraq but most families of Hussaini Brahmins are now settled in Pune,[6] Delhi,[7] Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu region in India. Sindh, Chakwal and Lahore in Pakistan and Kabul and South Afghanistan in Afghanistan. Some of them also observe Muharram every year.
A sect of Bhumihar Brahmins in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar also claim ancestry from Hussaini Brahmins and take part in Muharram each year.[8]
^Nonica Datta (30 September 2019). "The Forgotten History of Hussaini Brahmins and Muharram in Amritsar". The Wire (Indian News and Opinion Website). Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
^संत-वैष्णव काव्य पर तांत्रिक प्रभाव, V. Upadhyaya, 1962, Page 181
^Hamara Samaj, Sant Ham, 1957, p. 115
^Jayasi, Malik Muhammad, Ramchandra Billaurey, 1973, p. 131
^A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Based on the Census Report for the Punjab, 1883 · Volume 2, Horace Arthur Rose, Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Sir Edward Maclagan, 1911, p. 141
^NADEEM INAMDAR, RIZWAN KHAN. "Brahmins who went to war for the Imam". Times group, India. The Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
^Akram, Maria (5 November 2014). "For Hussaini brahmans, it's Muharram as usual". Times group, India. The Times of India. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
^"Where Hindus join Shias to mourn Imam Hussain". 25 November 2012.
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