The Chaki or Chakee (Sindhi: چاڪي) is a Sindhi Muslim clan of Soomra tribe, found in the state of Gujarat, India.[1][2][3] A small number are also found in the city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s Sindh province as well as in Sehwan and Bubak in Sindh.[4]
The Chaki has fifteen sub-clans, some of them are: Allayo, Makkad, Khokhra, Davva, Banani, Lela and Kotuda.[1]
References
- ^ a b Lal, R. B. (2003). Gujarat. Popular Prakashan. p. 272. ISBN 978-81-7991-104-4.
- ^ K. S. Singh (1998). India’s Communities – Volume 4. Anthropological Survey of India. p. 591. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
- ^ Samiuddin, Abida; Khanam, R. Global Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Indian Muslim. Global Vision Publishing House. pp. 301–302. ISBN 978-81-8220-299-3.
- ^ Statistics, Pakistan Bureau of (2017). 2017 Provincial Census Report Sindh. Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. p. 37.