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Siddi, Sheedi
Siddi community in India
Total population
1,300,000 (estimated)[citation needed]
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan
250,000 to 1 million[1][2][3]
India
25,000–70,000[4]
Karnataka
10,477 (2011 census)[5]
Gujarat
8,661[5]
Daman and Diu
193[5]
Goa
183[5]
Languages
Sidi language (historically) Balochi (Makrani dialect), Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, Kannada,
Swahili, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English
The Siddi (pronounced[sɪdːiː]), also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India. They are primarily descended from the Bantu peoples of the Zanj coast in Southeast Africa, most of whom came to the Indian subcontinent through the Arab Slave Trade.[6] Others arrived as merchants, sailors, indentured servants, and mercenaries.[7]
^"First African-Pakistani Lawmaker Fights to Claim Power". 2 September 2020.
^"The Siddis: Discovering India's little known African-origin community". The New Indian Express. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
^ abcd"A-11 Individual Scheduled Tribe Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix". Census of India 2011. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
^Ewald, Janet (November 2008). "No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life:" Bondsmen and Freedmen in the Ports and at Sea of the Indian Ocean World, c. 1500-1900" (PDF). 10th Annual Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference, Yale University.
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