Thread by @nawab_safiullah

Lesser known fact:

Around 1140's, members of Muslim Samma tribe of Sind migrated to Gujarat of today's India, settled there, adopted the mixed practices of "Islam & Hinduism" but laterly left Islam & embraced Hinduism fully. They also managed to establish kingdoms in Kutch.

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But how all this started? This all started when Samma chieftain of Thatta, Jam Jada was childless and in need of legitimate heir to the throne. So he decided to adopt his brother's son, Lakho and nominated him the future lord of his lands.

But after adopting Lakho, Jam Jada's wife gave birth to a child named Ghao. As Jada already nominated adopted Lakho, he decided to divide his dominion equally among both his legitimate son Ghao and adopted son Lakho.

However after the death of Jam Jada, Ghao refused to share any dominion with Lakho. This forced Lakho, his brother Lakhiar and their followers to leave Sind. Eventually they migrated to Eastern Kutch of Gujarat and started to capture territories there.

At that time Chadwa Rajputs were rulers of Eastern Kutch and also had maternal relations with Sammas. As Lakho was adopted by Jam Jada, the descendants of Lakho Jadani were called Jadejas. Jadeja means "belonging to Jada".

Initially Jadejas were Muslim with some Hindu practices like other Sindhi tribes of that era but with the passage of time and marriages with Hindu Rajputs, they left Islam and adopted Hindu traditions completely.

But even after accepting Hinduism and claiming Karishna's ancestry, for a long time they were known as half-Muslims.

In upcoming centuries Jadejas were succeeded to capture whole of Kutch as well as some other parts of Gujarat.

The Kingdoms they established are as follow:

Kingdom of Kutch
Kingdom of Nawanagar
Kingdom of Morvi
Kingdom of Dhrol
Kingdom of Gondal
Kingdom of Rajkot

These all states became princely states during British rule and laterly merged into the Republic of India.

The Jadejas believed that a Rajput man could only marry a woman from a Rajput caste below him, and a Rajput father could only give his daughter's hand in marriage to a Rajput caste above him. To intermarry within the caste was considered incest. This all caused female infanticide

Another intersting fact for cricket lovers is: one of the best fielders ever produced by South Asia, Ravindra jadeja (@imjadeja) and present CM of Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan (@jam_kamal), both have same ancestors as both have same Samma origin.

References

The Politics and Poetics of Water: The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India.

Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies.

Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Paramount Power and the Princely States of India

royalark.net/India/cutch.htm

@MHuzaifaNizam Sir have a look