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- ↑ Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. xcvii, 15.
- ↑ Thakur, U.T. (1959). Sindhi Culture. University of Bombay. pp. 85, 87.
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