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Thattai Bhatia is a clan of Sindhi Bhatia which was once settled in Sindh, in what is now Pakistan, but dispersed around the time of the Partition of India in 1947. The Thattai Sindhi Bhatia community derives its name from the Thatta city of Sindh. Pre-independence, in 1880s the Bhatias were considered amongst the top three Indian communities undertaking trading relations with Middle East countries like Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and whole of Gulf. Sindhi Bhatias were dominant in Muscat, Doha and Bandar Abbas.
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- India’'s ‘Look West’ Policy and Its Impact on India, GCC Relations, International Politics, Vol. 3, No. VI, Summer & Autumn 2010, Ginu Zacharia Oommen, Khurshid Imam, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1715 to 1947, Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama, by Claude Markovits, Cambridge University Press
- Mukherjee, Rila (2022-03-03). India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE. Springer Nature. p. 198. ISBN 978-981-16-6581-3.