Mikrani

Mikrani/Mik:raniː/ (Devanagari: मिकरानी), Urdu:مکرانی) are a Muslim community found in the Sarlahi and Rautahat districts of Nepal, state of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, & Gujarat in India as well as in Pakistan. They are also known as Mukeri, Makrani, Mekrani, Barmaki, Ranki and Muzkeri. they belongs to muker tribe and the Mikrani title is mostly used in Nepal while some also use Mukeri or Miya Mukeri.

The word Muker is said to have derived from the Arabic makeri, meaning those who helped in the construction of Makkah. They were initially called Makkai, which meant the resident of Makkah, which was later corrupted to makeri. They are divided into two endogamous groups, the Mukeri and Shaikh Banjara. They rank themselves as Shaikh. The Shaikh Banjara are further divided into the Mikrani, Muqri, Barmaki, Siddiqui and Shaikh. Different groups have different traditions to their origin, with the Makrani claiming Baluch ancestry.

The Mukeri or muker in Bihar and Nepal claim to be descendants of early Arab settlers, whose initial area of settlement in South Asia was the Makran region. According to their tradition they arrived in Bihar during the period of Khilji ruler, and were initially known as Makrani, which was eventually shortened to Muker. They are found in Sarlahi district ( Malangwa, Bhadsar, Masaili, Khutauna, Pakadi, Murtiya, Parsa, Haripur, Lalbandi, Hariyon, Ishworpur villages ) Rautahat district ( Gaur and kattarban villages). They speak Urdu, Nepali and the local Angika language. Sarlahi district is the district of Nepal, where majority of Mikrani community lives.

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