The Chaush or Chaus are a community who are of
Hadhrami Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
descent. They are found in the
Deccan region of India.
[Omar Khalidi]
The Arabs of Hadramawt in Hyderabad
in Mediaeval Deccan History, eds Kulkarni, Naeem and de Souza, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996, pg 63
The Chaush or Chaus were brought from Yemen to work in the former
Hyderabad State as military men for the
Nizams. It is said that especially when it came to safe guarding his family, the
7th Nizam had absolute trust on these Arab Soldiers.
[A home for the Chaush community](_blank)
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, 25 Sep 2011 They are most concentrated in
Marathwada,
Telangana
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and
Hyderabad-Karnataka regions, and most of their population is concentrated in the neighbourhoods of
Barkas in
Hyderabad
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,
Shasha Mahallah in
Karimnagar, Al-Tamash in
Aurangabad. They also live in
Adilabad,
Asifabad,
Kagaznagar,
Nizamabad,
Mahabubnagar and
Warangal.
The founders of both the
Qu'aiti and
Kathiri states in
Hadhramawt had previously served as
jemadars in
Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
.
Cuisine
The Hyderabadi
haleem,
marag (mutton stew),
murtabaq,
shorba,
harira,
mandi,
kabsa,
maqluba,
tas kabab,
lukhmi,
sheer khurma,
qubani ka meetha and
malida have been introduced in Hyderabad by the Chaush or Arabs.
See also
*
Barkas
*
Shasha Mahallah
*
Chiaus
*
Hyderabadi Pahalwan
*
Siddi
References
Further reading
* Leif Manger,
Hadramis in Hyderabad: From Winners to Losers Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 35, Numbers 4–5, 2007, pp. 405–433(29)
* Engseng Ho
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean University of California Press
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, 2006
* Ababu Minda Yimene
An African Indian community in Hyderabad Cuvillier Verlag, 2004, pg 201
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean:1750s-1960s By-Ulrike Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith
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