Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s2.4.6

c48.s2.4.6

It is not improbable that they are of the same stock as the Ahīr or Abhīra, the great cattle-breeders of upper India, though their position is now higher than that of the latter. In Sindh, two Rājput tribes of agriculturists, the Sūmrō and the Sammō, successively occupied the dominant position on the lower Indus from about 750 A. D. to the middle of the 16th century, and now belong to Islām. Their respective numbers are by no means accurately represented in the Census return owing to the wide-spread practice in this province of giving the general title of Sindhī as the name of the tribe or caste, thus placing nearly a quarter of a million of the inhabitants beyond the possibility of identification.