Chaush
The Chaush or Chaus are a community who are of 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 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.[3] 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, Mahabubnagar and Warangal.[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]
Cuisine
The Hyderabadi haleem, marag (mutton stew), murtabaq, shorba, harira, mandi, kabsa, maqluba, tas kabab, lukhmi, sheer khurma, qubani ka meetha and malida have been introduced in Hyderabad by the Chaush or Arabs.[6][7]
Notable people
- Syed Ahmed El-Edroos - Commander-in-Chief of the Nizam's forces in Hyderabad
- Sulaiman Areeb - Urdu poet
- Awaz Sayeed - Urdu writer
- Ahmed bin Abdullah Balala - Malakpet MLA
See also
References
- ^ 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
- 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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