Kalhora

Kalhora
ڪلھوڙا
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan
Languages
Sindhi
Religion
Islam (Sunni)[1]
Related ethnic groups
Sindhi people

The Kalhora or Kalhora Abbasi (Sindhi: ڪلهوڙو) is a Sindhi Sammat clan in Sindh, Pakistan.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Boivin, Michel (9 February 2021). "The Polyvalent Qadamgāh Imām ʿAlī In Hyderabad, Sindh: A Preliminary Study in Relics, Political Power, and Community Setup". Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World. 1 (1–2): 248–267. doi:10.1163/26666286-12340011. ISSN 2666-6278. Contrary to the Kalhoṛās who were Sunnis, the Tālpūrs were Twelver Shiʿites.
  2. ^ Hussain 2020, p. 8.
  3. ^ Pakistan's Sindh Province (PDF). Congressional Research Service. p. 3.
  4. ^ Ali Shah, Syed Shakir; Mallah, Prof Dr Qasid Hussain. "Kalhora Period Architecture in Sindh". Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. LXVII (3): 26. ..But the author of Kalhora Dour-e-Hakoomat refutes it and argues that Kalhoras originally belong to Sindh and their centre was at Bakhar..