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Culture
Siddi community migrated from the africa and settled to gujarat over centuries and now they are very well assimilated into gujarati culture and the study has found that around 75,000 Africans who settled in Gujarat over the centuries have become almost indistinguishable from members of africa. Interestingly, they also have no physical signs indicating their country of origin except their fuzzy hair and relatively darker skin.Not only they got matched to gujarati culture very well but also there is no single african who can speak swahili, a language spoken in east africa.In fact, the marriage style was also the same as gujarati style. The africans also relish on gujarati delicacies such as khaman,dhokla and fafda and none of relish on their delicacies which most of african eats like baba ghanoush and amala. Traders from Kutch and Kathiawad transformed the african’s barter society into a money economy in the 19th century. Maritime history shows that they were trade bridge between Gujarat and the African east coast dating back to ancient Babylon. It has been said that Sidi,were once nawabs of Surat,Khambad and Jafrabad.The sidis are founder of two landmark of ahmedabad i.e sidi saiyyed mosque and siddi bashir mosque. Folklore has it that sidi guard once sacrificed his life to prevent ahmedabad's 'Nagar Laxmi' from leaving the city during the rule of Ahmed Shah.