Thattai Bhatia

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Thattai Bhatia is a clan of Sindhi Bhatia Rajputs which was once settled in Sindh, in what is now Pakistan, but dispersed around the time of the Partition of India in 1947. [1] [2] The Thattai Sindhi Bhatia community derives its name from the Thatta city of Sindh. [3] Pre-independence, in 1880s the Bhatias were considered amongst the top three Indian communities undertaking trading relations with Middle East countries like Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and whole of Gulf. [4] [5] [ page needed ] [6] [ page needed ] Sindhi Bhatias were dominant in Muscat, Doha and Bandar Abbas. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Straight Talk: The grand old man, by Subramani Dharmarajan, Senior Reporter, Gulf News, September 11, 2008
  2. ↑ "Thathai Bhatias & A Desert Cuisine Rooted in Migration". GOYA. 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  3. ↑ Rahman, Anisur; M, Sameer Babu; PA, Ansari (2023-03-31). Indian Migration to the Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-000-85007-9.
  4. ↑ Falzon, Mark-Anthony (2004). Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000. BRILL. p. 34. ISBN   978-90-04-14008-0.
  5. ↑ India’'s ‘Look West’ Policy and Its Impact on India, GCC Relations, International Politics, Vol. 3, No. VI, Summer & Autumn 2010, Ginu Zacharia Oommen, Khurshid Imam, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  6. ↑ The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1715 to 1947, Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama, by Claude Markovits, Cambridge University Press
  7. ↑ Mukherjee, Rila (2022-03-03). India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE. Springer Nature. p. 198. ISBN   978-981-16-6581-3.
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