O CAMINHO DAS ÍNDIAS TAMBÉM PASSA PELA ÁFRICA

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Bantu origins of the Sidis of IndiaAbdulaziz Y. Lodhi
2008-10-29, Issue 404
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/51594

There are several legends about the origins of some early Sidi settlements but so far no contemporary written record has been found to verify their early oral history or substantiate the Sidi claims of various ancestries. However, there are a few early reports by European officials and travellers and one short language study by the explorer Richard F. Burton (1851). According to one commonly accepted legend (Patel 1986), the founder of the Sidi settlement in Jambur in Gujarat is supposed to have originally come from Kano in Nigeria via the Sudan and Mecca after his Hajj pilgrimage. This leader was a wealthy merchant by the name of Bawa/Baba Ghor who first settled in the Rajpipla Hills near Bharuch and Khambat where he developed mining and trade in agate, the precious stone known as akik in India.(17) A certain variety of agate beads are known as Baba Ghori, and another maroon cornelian stone is named after his sister and successor Mai Mariyam, also known as Mai Misra/Mishra.(18)
(18) According to one tradition in the Dongri district of Mumbai, Mai Misra is called so because she came to India via ‘Misre’ or ‘Misar’ (Egypt).FOTO(derecha):Ancient artifact (apprx 2nd millenium B.C.) found in India shows a woman with Negroid features.
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Com os ingleses, a maioria foi repatriada para a África e seus descendentes foram deixados em bolsões obscuros ao longo da costa ocidental, em particular

Siddis de Gujarat -India,tocadores de Malunga(Berimbao)

libro: Conflicts and tensions Escrito por Helmut K. Anheier, Yudhishthir Raj Isar

Página 54 ... or footed drum, is almost identical to the ngoma drum to be found in Zimbabwe today, while the malunga, or braced musical bow, seems to resemble the ...

Malunga-Berimbao Sidi

Sidi Malangbhai de Bharuch (Salim del Ustad) cantando con una Malunga y como él bendice a un niño, utilizando el orhni que abarca el sonajero Mai Misra al polvo fuera de las aflicciones del niño y agitar la cabeza abajo a la tierra.

http://musicmovesreligion.com/mmr/amymalunga

http://musicmovesreligion.com/mmr/spkr/amy

Goma and Laywa: India and Pakistan
Africans have been called by various names in South Asia. As their migration to India is an old phenomenon, the terms describing them have also changed over time and space.
The word Africa is a 20th century term. Previously the blacks were perceived to have come from Sudan, Habasha, Zandj or Nuba. People of African descent in South Asia have mostly been referred to as Habshi, Kaffir and Sidi. All these words have Arabic etyma. The best known were the Habasha (Ethiopians), since they were geographically closer to Arabia and associated with Prophet Muhammad. Bilal, the first Muezzin was the son of an Ethiopian slave. Kaffir is from the Arabic word qafr meaning ‘non-believer’ and was originally used by Muslims to refer to the ‘non-muslims’. The etymon of the word Sidi lies in Arabic Seyidi/Sayeedi/Sayedi meaning ‘lord or master’. Today the largest Afro-Indian communities are spread over several States of India but mainly in Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Smaller communities are found in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh (de Silva Jayasuriya 2007a, 2008b). Afro-Gujaratis have been performing in Europe, America and Africa since October 2002. They play sacred music and dance, singing to their ancestral Saint, Bava Gor, who is believed to have been an Abyssinian. They perform dhamal which they call goma, a word whose etymon is found in a Swahili word ngoma meaning ‘drum’ and also ‘dance’. In terms of instruments, the most significant African preservation is the malunga, a braced musical bow. It is found in many African communities within Africa and among the diasporas; in Brazil the malunga is also known as berimbao.

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/es/files/38505/122910319358.AfricanMigrants-SouthAsia.pdf/8.AfricanMigrants-SouthAsia.pdf