Sindhi Sammat
Sindhi community
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The Sammat (Sindhi: سنڌي سماٽ; sammāṭ, samāṭr, sammāṭh) is the indigenous community of Sindhi people, comprising a number of native tribes and forming a substantial portion of the Sindhi Muslim population.[1][2] Hindu Sammats are also extant.[3]
The term Sammat refers to Sindhis of indigenous origin.[4][5] Scholarship dates the presence of Sammat tribes in the region to ancient times.[6] The Sammats are regarded as a traditionally privileged group within Sindhi society.[7] Sammat rulers feature prominently in the verse of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, the eighteenth-century Sindhi poet.[3] In contemporary Sindh, the Sammat castes are conventionally ranked second to Sayeds and other castes claiming Arab descent.[8]