Iraqi Biradari
Iraqi Biradri is a Sunni Muslim caste found chiefly in Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Ballia, Deoria and Gorakhpur districts of the eastern Uttar Pradesh in India. Iraqi Biradri is also referred to as Iraqi Shaikh.
Regions with significant populations | |
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INDIA, PAKISTAN | |
Languages | |
Urdu, Hindi,Bhojpuri,English | |
Religion | |
Islam, Sunni | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Shaikhs in North India, Sayyid |
History and origin
Iraqi biradri is a descendant population of immigrants from the country of Iraq. Recent facts argue that their ancestors were the immediate descendants of Sayyid Masud Al Hussaini and his poorly defined retinue, all recent immigrants from Iraq. Sayyid Masud Al Hussaini successfully extended the Ghazipur area under the Delhi Sultanate, settling with his family in the newly conquered city during the Mamluk Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq circa 1330.[1][2]: 157, 158
As a result, Iraqi Biradri are known have to settled in Ghazipur in the 14th century, with an origin roughly 700 years ago.[3][4] The ancestors as old as 300 years or more are now very well-identified in many towns/villages of the aforementioned districts including Ghazipur in the form of distinct families trees.[5]
It is worth noting that the above mentioned Iraqi Biradri and a totally separate Muslim caste, the converted Hindu Kalals as Araquis, Rakis, or simply 'Kalal Iraqi' were characterized to be in one group in United Provinces (or U.P.) based on the work of British colonial civil administrators and others.[6][7][8]These mistaken reports in fact attributed a fallacy toward the Iraqi Biradri for more than a century in the past.
Ethnic Iraqis
- India: Iraqi biradri from the native places in eastern U.P. are settled in many cities among others,Ethnic communities in Kanpur, and Ethnic communities in Kolkata are mentioned.
Notable people
- Mushir Alam, Indian businessperson, Indian film producer
- Lari Azad, Indian historian and Writer
- Ghazala Lari, Indian politician, former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (2008-2017)
- Maqbool Ahmed Lari, Indian businessman, philanthropist, recipient of the Padma Shri in 1971
- Nasreen Jalil, Pakistani senator and daughter of Zafarul Ahsan Indian Civil Service officer of the 1936 batch and former Chairman of Pakistan International Airlines
- Suhail Zaheer Lari, historian and author of history books in Pakistan; born in Gorakhpur as a distant cousin of Ms Ghazala Lari, an ex-MLA, from Gorakhpur region (U.P.)
- Yasmeen Lari, first female architect in Pakistan and daughter-in-law of Justice Z. H. Lari Deputy Leader of the opposition in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1936-1947) and member of the Constituent Assembly of India
People from the community carry the surname Lari from Lar, Uttar Pradesh in Deoria district, a historic centre of the community.
References
- about district-history"Tehsil | District Ghazipur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | India,"
- Nevill, H. R., ed. (1909). Ghazipur: A Gazetteer, Being Volume XXIX of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahabad: Government Press. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- Alhaj Mohammad Hanif (1956). "Mardam Shumari.pdf". p. 46. Reporting:Iraqi Biradri in Nonahra, district Ghazipur
- "Sadat of Subcontinent India and Pakistan". Section-North India, Nonahara district Ghazipur, Retrieved 25 October 2023
- Shajra Iraqi Biradran of eastern Uttar Pradesh by Jalil Ahmad Lari; Javed Ahmad Gauri; Tabrez Akhtar Lari (2022). "APNO KI TALASH FINAL Book Urdu". Iraqi India Biradre Welfare Foundation. pp. 1–239.
- Crooke, W. "The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh".
- Zarina Ahmad (1962). "Muslim castes in Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). The Economic Weekly.
- Ghaus Ansari (1960). Muslim Caste in Uttar Pradesh: A Study of Culture Contact. Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society. OCLC 1104993.
- "iraqibiradripakistan".retrieved 20 Oct 2023