HISTORY OF THE SEHMI FAMILY OF TAJPUR VILLAGE, LUDHIANA, PUNJAB
The British conquered the Punjab in 1848. According to the 1881 census, of the 1.7 million Sikhs, the agriculturalists (farmers and peasants) formed the largest group - 66%.The artisans (carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, barbers and tailors) formed an unusually larger second group - 10.1%. In the post-independent India, the artisan group was a major factor in the rapid industrialisation of the manily agricultural Punjab.
Apparently, the sehmi "clan" was well spread over the Punjab. This became evident in East Africa where a large atrisan Sikh community came to work on the construction of the railways, in the first third of the last century. In the 1950's there was a sufficiently large number of Sehmi families, especially from northern and central Punjab (Majha and Doaba), in Nairobi Kenya, that they have constituted a clannish "Sehmi" Union. This union has survived to the present day, in fact the union has continued to function in the UK.More on roots, I was recently invited to join the Sehmi Brotherhood. About the "SEHMI UNION", Rajinder Sehmi has sent today (04.05.2006) the following information:
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naginder on 05.04.06 @ 04:09 AM CET [more]