Group: | Chhimba Darzi |
Popplace: | Pakistan, India |
Langs: | • Urdu • Punjabi |
Rels: | Islam 100% |
Related: | • Darzi • Punjabi Shaikh |
The Idrisi Darzi are a Muslim community, found in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.[1] Darzi means tailor in Urdu and Hindi.[2] They also have a diaspora in Europe. They now work in a range of occupations but their ancestors' usual work was with clothing and hand-printed textiles.
A significant number of Idrisi Darzi are now found in the city of Manchester in the United Kingdom.[3] In a 2023 survey of Bihar, the Idrisi caste was the seventh most populous Muslim caste, at about 350,000 out of 23 million Muslims (1.6%).