The Dafer are a community found in
Saurashtra
Saurashtra, Sourashtra, or variants may refer to:
** Kathiawar, also called Saurashtra Peninsula, a peninsula in western India
** Saurashtra (state), alias United State of Kathiawar, a former Indian state, merged into Bombay State and since its d ...
region of
Gujarat
Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...
state in India. They claim to have migrated from
Sindh
Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind (caliphal province), Sind or Scinde) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, southeastern region of the country, Sindh is t ...
to Saurashtra through
Kutch. There are Muslim Dafers and Hindu Dafers as well.
Dafer have few of clans, some of them are: Nathwani, Ladak, Nagori, Mori, Somma, Kharwa, Chhar, Ker, Rathore, Lakha, Kharia etc. They speak
Kutchi dialect.
References
Muslim communities of India
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