Salaam! Can someone please tell me a bit 'bout the Mushwani tribe/caste…
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i think mushwani are balochis who known for their skill and are nomadic carpet sellers in Iran, pakistan, afghanistan, turkmenistan etc...
But you used tribe and caste as interchangeable. They are very different things.
Are you related to mushwanis?
thanx 4 the info Sultan jee
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a friend of mine told me he was a mushwani ‘n’ i was just curious wot 1 is…
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dear shehzaada, I found some interesting info for you:
Pile rugs with Baluch features, cruder though and not as plentiful, are also found among the Firuskuni and Taimani. They live today as farmers and semi nomads in rather confined areas in west Afghanistan: north and east of Herat, and south down to the region of Adreskand. The Djamshidi live here also. According to Janata (oral information, 1979), the question arises whether their sub-tribe, the Maududi, is identical with the Mush(a)wani, whose typical pile-weave rugs (Fig. 1) were mentioned in more recent publications (Eiland 1976:79). About 250 Djamshidi moved into the area of Meshhed in Persian north Khorassan only after 1885 (Janata 1978:11). Firuzkuhi are also still to be found in Iran, in the area south of Nishapur (Bellew 1973:59). Presumably they stayed behind when their tribe, which had been resettled their by Nadir Shah, returned to their former Afghan pastures after the death of Nadir Shah. These peoples are partly of Iranian, partly of Turk-Mongol origin and belong to the loose confederation of the Tsharar Aimaq (Chahar Aimaq). “The Four Peoples.” Sometimes the above mentioned Timuri are also said to be one of those.
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