Re: History of Baloch and Balochistan
It seems every notable, familiar and important personality from sindh is of Baloch origin. If 40% of Sindhis are baloch, then i am curious about original and ancient sindhis like you. Any important sindhi of non-baloch origin in showbiz, politics etc?.
With such presence and influence of balochs in sindh, it must be the case that big portion of sindhi culture and traditions, customs would be derived from balochs.?
Judging from the looks of sindhi-balochs, it doesnt seem they have much intermarried with indegenous population. What is the social status of a baloch in the sindhi society?
Balochs in Sindh are considered Sindhi in our society. They speak Sindhi, follow Sindhi traditions. Its not correct to say that 40% of Sindhis are of Baloch origins. Recent reserach shows that many Sindhi castes have been categorised as Balochs. Dr Nabi Bux Khan has been criticised by new researchers to tag everything in Sindh as Baloch.
Apart from all that Blaoch tribes like Chandia, Jamali and Jatoi are known as Ba-roch (Not Baloch) and their language is different than Balochi spoken in Balochistan. An other point that Sindhi researchers are now raising that 13 districts of Balochistan got Sindhi majority population and their langauge is Sindhi. These include Las-bela, and Sibbi. There are books on Sibbi dialects of Sindhi language. A sizable portion of 'Shah jo Risalo' is written in the diction of Sindhi spoken in areas forming part of Balochistan.
As far as import of culture is concerned a major theory developed in recent years is about Karo-Kari. It is said that typical Sindhi society didn't have these honor killing concepts and these customs only developed due to tribal migration in Sindh.
original Sindhi castes include Solangi (Maachi / Malah), Chaaran, Memon, Samma, Soomra, AbRa, Panhwar, Laakha, etc
Famous non-Baloch Sindhis in media are : Humera Channa, mehtab Akbar Rashidi (Mehtab Channa), Salah u din Tuniyo (father of Fahad Mustfa), Abida Parveen (her husband was Shaikh), Sanam Marvi, Sakina Sammo, Sultana Siddiqui (Chairperson Hum TV Networks), Anwar Solangi (late), etc