The Qassab ( ur, قصاب; from the

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word (''Qasaab- butcher''), are members of a north Indian community or ''biradari''. Occasionally most Quresh caste members are referred to as the Qassab. At present, Qassab who are engaged in meat cutting and selling business are referred to as Qureshi.

History and origin

According to the state the community came in India with the army of Mohammed Ghouri, Muslim invader from Afghanistan , they fought with him and slaughtered the halal animals to feed the entire army when Mohammed Ghouri returned to his soul while some of his man's stayed in Delhi and the qasabs (quraishi) were amongst them .Then the role of Sufism came to play Huzoor Nizamuddin Auli Ra Sufi Saint from Delhi gather all the quraish community people's and established there colony near Nizamuddin aulia dargah (nowadays) and the quraishi mohalla came to existence so according to this majority of quraishi qasabs in Delhi uttarpradesh Bihar and west Bengal are the descendants of those qasabs who came in India with MD ghaouri. The community is entirely

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, and in

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speaks

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

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, fine Rs. 63,000 was imposed on the people of

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who were mostly

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s and Muslim Qassab.Satish Chandra Mittal, 1986
Haryana, a Historical Perspective
p58.

Present circumstances

In North India

The community remains associated with the slaughtering of animals. Apart from selling meats, they are also involved in the sale and purchase of animals, as well as trading in hides. The Chikwa of Awadh are also involved in the selling of hides. In terms of distribution, they are found throughout

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and

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. They are strictly

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, which marriages preferred within a small kinship circle. Most towns include distinct quarters where the community lives, such as Kanpur, Allahabad, Banaras, Fatehpur, Qureshnagar in

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.''People of India Uttar Pradesh'' Volume XLII, edited by A. Hasan & J.C. Das, page 741 The Anjuman Quresh is an India-wide association, and is the oldest Muslim organization. The community belong to both the Sunni and

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sects of

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, but the majority are Sunnis. The Chikwa speak

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, while the Qureshi Qassab speak Urdu. In

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, the Qassab are found in the districts of

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, Nagaur,

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and Pali. The Qassab speak

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among themselves, and

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with outsiders. They have two sub-divisions, the Barakasab, who slaughter ox, bulls and buffaloes, and Chhotakasab, who slaughter goats. The Qassab have local

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associations, known as jamats, in each of their settlements, which deal with disputes within the community. In

, the Qassab are a class of Muslim butchers, and are generally known as Qureshis. They are found throughout

, and are one of the few

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communities that speaks Urdu. The Qassab consist of two sub-groups, the Bara Karbar, who were involved in the slaughtering of ox, bulls and buffaloes, and Chota Karbar, who slaughtered goats. Closely related to the Qassab are the Chik, a caste also associated with the slaughtering of goats. The Anjuman Quresh has a

branch, which acts as a welfare association. They are entirely Sunni Muslims, and are fairly orthodox. They were one of the earliest groups to shift towards the Deobandi sect.

In Maharashtra

The Qassab of

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are said to have come over from

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, and were soldiers in the army of the

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, and still speak the Dakhani dialect of Urdu. They were initially divided into two groups, the Gai Qassab (ox, bulls and buffaloes butchers) and Bakar Qassab (mutton butchers). The community is further divided into three groups, the Chaudhary, the Saudagor and Sikku. They speak the

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dialect of Urdu among themselves, and

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with outsiders. The Qassab are Sunni, and strictly endogamous. They practice both

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and parallel cousin marriages. In

, the community are found in the cities of

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Akola Akola () is a municipal corporation and the third largest city in Vidarbha after Nagpur and Amravati and tenth largest city in Maharashtra. is located about east of the state capital, Mumbai, and west of the second capital, Nagpur. A ...

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and

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In Pakistan

In Pakistan, the Qassab are found in the province of

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. They have Eight major divisions, Arbi, Bhatti, Khokhar, Goraha and Suhal. In addition to butchering, the Qassab of Punjab have been involved with cotton cleaning. The Penja community is of Qaasab extraction. Pakistan is also home to communities, which originate from

and

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. They are an Urdu-speaking community found mainly in the cities of

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and

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, Dera Ghazi Khan,

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Like their Indian counterparts, the Qureshi Qassab also have a caste association or anjuman. They are also called Sheikh Qureshi.

In Jammu and Kashmir

The Qassab of the Kashmir valley are known as the Ganai. But not all Ganai are butchers or Qassab. Many sociologists and anthropologists believe that the Kashmiri Ganai were originally Brahmins, and butchers of Kashmir steadily assumed the caste name "Ganai" only recently, with the advent of Islam in the 14th century. They assumed this high-sounding surname to escape the social stigma associated with the butchery profession in traditional Hindu society. Presently many butchers use the surname Ganai but only some of them are in the butchery profession. Like other Qassab groups, many are also involved in the buying and selling of hides, which has made the Ganai a wealthy community. The traditional caste council has been replaced by the Ganai association. Ganai, as a title, was used by highly educated and spiritual people until last century and there are still number of families in North and South Kashmir using this title as their caste. Few of the most renowned personalities associated with this title which later they used as their caste are Sheikh Abdul Wahab Noori bin Khawaja Rashid Ganai, Mir Hasan Ganai, Haji Mulla Feroz Ganai, Mulla Mohsin Ganai Faani (the teacher of Ustad Gani Malik Al-Ashraiye). The well-known religious scholar of Srinagar Mulla Inayat Allah Shawl and the wealthy landlord Khawaja Sanaullah Shawl were also Ganai. And, they belonged to the clan that came to Kashmir from Turkistan or Khurasaan resent-day Afghanistan Khawaja Saad-ud-din Shawl is from their progenies.

The All India Jamiatul Quresh

Like many Muslim communities in India, the Qassab have set up the All India Jamiatil Quresh, which was established in

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in 1927. The Jamiat was set up by Bhaiyya Rasheeduddin Ahmed, MLC, Landlord, a wealthy merchant and philanthropist. He has established under 3700 schools . It has a federal structure, with each state having its own chapter. Its headquarters are in Kothi Khan Bahadur,

. Any male member of the community can take up membership. As a caste association, the Jamait campaigns on behalf of the community as well as acting as a welfare organization, and running schools and hospitals.

Bawarchi of Uttar Pradesh

The Bawarchi are a sub-group within the Qassab, and get their name from the Urdu word ''bawarchi'', which means "a cook". A split from the wider Qassab community is said to have taken place when a group of

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Qassab changed their occupation from butchering to cooking. There is no intermarriage now between the Bawarchi and neighbouring Qassab communities. They are still found mainly in the city of Lucknow, in the localities of Sadar, Husainganj, Fatehganj and Chowk. The Bawarchi prefer to be known as Qureshi or Ahl-e-Quresh.''People of India Uttar Pradesh'' Volume XLII Part One, edited by A. Hasan & J.C. Das, page 220 to 223, Manohar Publications The Bawarchi speak Urdu and belong to the Sunni sect. They are a community of professional cooks, who historically were employed by wealthy Awadh

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s. With the disappearance of their traditional patrons at the time of the independence of

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, the community are now employed in restaurants and hotels, and specialise in

Awadhi cuisine Awadhi cuisine ( hi, अवधी पाक-शैली, ur, ) is a cuisine native to the Awadh region in Northern India. The cooking patterns of Lucknow are similar to those of Central Asia, the Middle East, and Northern India with the cuisi ...

. The Bawarchi and Rakabdars of Awadh gave birth to the dum style of cooking or the art of cooking over a slow fire, which has become synonymous with Lucknow today.''The Sunday Tribune'' - Spectrum - Lead Article
/ref> Their spread would consist of elaborate dishes like

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, kaliya, nahari-kulchas, zarda, sheermal, roomali rotis and warqi parathas. The richness of Awadh cuisine lies not only in the variety of cuisine but also in the ingredients used like

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, and rich

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including

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and

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. Like other Muslim artisans, many have seen a decline in their traditional occupation, and are now petty businessmen. The Bawarchi have no formal caste association, but each of their settlements contains a

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, an informal

association. Each settlement panchayat is headed by a chaudhary, a post which was traditionally heredity. The panchayat deals with intra community disputes and punishes any social transgressions. Some Bawarchi are also involved with the Anjuman Quraish.

Bawarchi of Gujarat

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, the Bawarchi are said to have been soldiers in the army of the

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, and settled in Gujarat some five centuries ago. Once in Gujarat, these soldiers changed their occupation and took up cooking, hence becoming known as Bawarchi. The Bawarchi are now found in the cities of Ahmadabad,

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, and

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, and a few villages in

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. They speak a dialect which is a mixture of

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and Urdu.''People of India Gujarat'' Volume XXII Part One, edited by R.B. Lal, S.V. Padmanabham & A. Mohideen, page 147 to 149, Popular Prakashan Like most

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s, the Bawarchi have a caste association, the Ahmedabad Bawarchi Jamat. The jamat acts as both a community welfare association as well as an instrument of social control. Like other Qassab sub-groups, the Gujarat Bawarchi are strictly endogamous. Most prefer marrying close kin, and practice both parallel cousin and cross cousin marriages. The Bawarchi are entirely Sunni, but also incorporate some folk beliefs. Like most Muslim artisan castes, the Bawarchi have seen a decline in their traditional occupation, which involved being employed as cooks in wealthier Muslim families. Other were owners of caravanserais. Very few Bawarchis have taken up higher education, as the community is extremely economically marginalized. Many are now employed as daily wage labourers.

Notable Qureshi People

* Huma Qureshi, Bollywood Actress * Saqib Saleem Qureshi, Bollywood Actor * Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, Former Union Deputy Minister of Railway and Governor of MP, UP & Bihar *

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, Indian Urdu Poet & Bollywood Lyricist * * S M Qureshi, Pakistani Academic *

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, Indian Politician * S. Y. Quraishi, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India *

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, Pakistani Politician *

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, Indian Stand-up Comedian *

Aziz Qureshi Aziz Qureshi (born 24 April 1941) is an Indian politician and a senior Indian National Congress leader of mixed Arab-Pathan Muslim ethnoreligious and Urdu-speaking linguistic background from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He had previously served as 1 ...

,15th Governor of Mizoram,India *

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, Indian Art Historian *

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, Indian Tabla Player *

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, Indian Tabla Player * Hashim Qureshi, Kashmiri Separatist leader from India *

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, Pakistani Nuclear Chemist Scientist * *

Kamran Qureshi Kamran Qureshi (born 3 October 1975) is a filmmaker and television director/producer. He won Best Telefilm & Best Director Award for his first ever directed TV film Murad (a.k.a. Eunuch's Motherhood) with a cash prize in Indus Telefilm Festiva ...

, British Filmmaker *

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, English Cricketer * Yaqub Qureshi ,Indian Politician *

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, Bangladeshi restaurateur and social reformer

References

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