Bhaibund, (Hindi) meaning “brotherhood”, a Jāti designating the lower segment of the Lohana caste
An important instrument of caste self-government in India. Jātis (in Devanagari: जाति (the word literally means births) is the term used to denote communities and sub-communities in India Lohanas (Gujarati લોહાણા are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group and are an urban Hindu mercantile community of India. Caste (Sanskrit Gyati ज्ञाति, Hindi Biradari बिरादरी samaj समाज jati जाति etc, Urdu Zat ज़ात) is an Endogamous group India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country A council formed by the heads of families belonging to the same lineage in the Sind, Pakistan. Sindh ( Sindhī: سنڌ Urdu: سندھ is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhis. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and An exogamous Vaishyas merchant class community (those who do not intermarry) within a wider endogamous (those who do intermarry) caste group. Exogamy has two related definitions both biological and cultural The Hindu varna (class System, a Vaishya ( Sanskrit वैश्य vaiśya) is a member of the third of the four classes of traditional Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a social group. Cultures who practice endogamy require marriage between specified social groups classes or ethnicities
In the Bhaibund, social organization revolves around kinship rather than caste. Patrilineage (Beradari), is the most important social institution, for example, a marriage for a man with his father's brother's daughter. Patrilineality (aka agnatic kinship) is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage it generally involves the Inheritance of property names or titles Often groups marriages are common beradaris.
The community is governed by a Panchayat, or council of elders, who would adjudicates disputes within the group or lineages the leader of who was a Mukhi. The Panchayat is a South Asian Political system. ‘Panchayat’ literally means assembly ( yat) of five ( panch) wise and respected elders chosen
Publications
- Malkani, KR (1984). THE SINDH STORY. Urbana-Champaign : Nadeem Jamali. OCLC 48506292. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose
- Falzon, Mark-Anthony (July, 2003). "Bombay, Our Cultural Heart': Rethinking the relation between homeland and diaspora". Ethnic and Racial Studies 26 (4): 662–683.
- Markovits, Claude (October, 1999). "Indian Merchant Networks outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey". Modern Asian Studies 33 (4): 883–911.
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