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Bhishti
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|
 A bhishti in India, 1870 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 529,000[citation needed] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 India •  Pakistan | |
| Languages | |
| Urdu • Hindi • Awadhi | |
| Religion | |
 Islam 100% | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bhahisti • Saifi |
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The Bhishti or Bhisti (Hindustani: भिश्ती, بهِشتی) are a Muslim tribe or biradari (IAST: biradari)
found in North India and Pakistan.
The Bhisthi belong to the Abbasi or Sheikh Abbasi and the Saqqa, the former being an Arab tribe (Banu Abbas).
Depiction in the arts[edit | edit source]
The title character of Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din, an intrepid water-carrier for a British Army regiment in India, is a Bhishti.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII edited by A. Hasan & J. C. Das page 285
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bheesty". Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 845>
- ↑ "Gunga Din". Poetry. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
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