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.jpg) 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 | |
| Currently spoken: Various South Asian languages and Kannada English Traditional: Sidi language | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Sunni Islam; minority: Hinduism, Christianity (Catholic) | |
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 Indian Ocean slave trade.[6] Others arrived as merchants, sailors, indentured servants, and mercenaries.[7]
- ^ "First African-Pakistani Lawmaker Fights to Claim Power". 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Sheedis in Pakistan". 16 October 2023.
- ^ Paracha, Nadeem (26 August 2018), "Smokers' corner: Sindh's African roots ", Dawn.
- ^ "The Siddis: Discovering India's little known African-origin community". The New Indian Express. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d "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.
- ^ Shah, Anish M.; et al. (15 July 2011). "Indian Siddis: African Descendants with Indian Admixture". American Journal of Human Genetics. 89 (1): 154–161. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.05.030. PMC 3135801. PMID 21741027.