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Thattai Bhatia is a clan of Sindhi Bhatia which was once settled in Sindh, in what is now Pakistan, but dispersed around the time of the Partition of India in 1947.[1][2] The Thattai Sindhi Bhatia community derives its name from the Thatta city of Sindh.[3] Pre-independence, in 1880s the Bhatias were considered amongst the top three Indian communities undertaking trading relations with Middle East countries like Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and whole of Gulf.[4][5][page needed][6][page needed] Sindhi Bhatias were dominant in Muscat, Doha and Bandar Abbas.[7]
References
edit- ^ Straight Talk: The grand old man, by Subramani Dharmarajan, Senior Reporter, Gulf News, September 11, 2008
- ^ "Thathai Bhatias & A Desert Cuisine Rooted in Migration". GOYA. 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ^ Rahman, Anisur; M, Sameer Babu; PA, Ansari (2023-03-31). Indian Migration to the Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-85007-9.
- ^ Falzon, Mark-Anthony (2004). Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000. BRILL. p. 34. ISBN 978-90-04-14008-0.
- ^ India’'s ‘Look West’ Policy and Its Impact on India, GCC Relations, International Politics, Vol. 3, No. VI, Summer & Autumn 2010, Ginu Zacharia Oommen, Khurshid Imam, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- ^ The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1715 to 1947, Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama, by Claude Markovits, Cambridge University Press
- ^ Mukherjee, Rila (2022-03-03). India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE. Springer Nature. p. 198. ISBN 978-981-16-6581-3.