The Siddi (pronounced), also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India. They are primarily descended from the Bantu peoples of the Zanj coast in Southeast Africa, most of whom came to the Indian subcontinent through the Indian Ocean slave trade. [6]

2024年2月13日 · In the sixteenth century, Indian aristocrats of all races were often called Sidi. By the seventeenth century, the word was increasingly confined to aristocrats of African origin, for example, Sidi Masud, who in the 1670s was the prime minister of the kingdom of Bijapur in southern India, as well as a noted art collector.

2016年7月6日 · The Siddis are descendants of the Bantu populations of East and Central Africa and are also sometimes referred to as Habshis or Abyssinians.

The Siddi, also called Sheedi, are a group of people living mainly in southern Pakistan, in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. They are one of two major Black ethnic groups in Pakistan, the other being Makranis. [4] They originally come from the Bantu communities in Southeast Africa and Ethiopia.

There is a 50,000 strong Siddi population across India, of which more than a third live in Karnataka. In Karnataka, they are concentrated around Yellapur, Haliyal, Ankola, Joida, Mundgod and Sirsi taluks of Uttara Kannada and in Khanapur of Belgaum and Kalghatgi of Dharwad district.

India’s Siddi are a large Afro-descendant community of tribes with an estimated 150,000 members in the country, based for centuries in rural areas of Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. Very few Siddi families live in other parts of the country.

2020年6月25日 · Some 25,000 descendants of East Africa's Bantu have been living in the Indian jungles of Western Ghats. Siddi ancestors were largely brought to India as slaves. Today, they continue to live in...