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Behna
The Shaikh Mansoori are a Muslim community, found in North India . In eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they were known as Dhuna or Dhunia. They also known as Naddaf in South India and Pinjara in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Their preferred self-designation is now Shaikh Mansoori, and this is beginning replace Behna as the community name.〔People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part One edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 240 to 243〕
==History and origin==
The word Behna comes from the Sanskrit ''behn'' or seed, and they were a community that removed the cotton seed from the fibre. In eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they are known as Dhuna or Dhuniya, which comes from the Sanskrit word ''dhu'', which means to shake. They were historically a community of associated with cotton cardering. According to their traditions, the community are descendents of the Sufi Mansur Al Halaj.〔Tribes and Castes of Northwestern Provinces and Oudh Volume II by William Crook〕 They can not give any account as to when or where their first settlement in India took place. The community is concentrated in the Awadh and Rohilkhand regions, with those in Awadh speaking both Urdu and Awadhi, and those in Rohilkhand speaking Khari boli. In Rohilkhand, the community is found mainly in the districts of Bareilly, Bijnor, Moradabad, and Rampur. While in Awadh, they are found in the districts of Sitapur, Hardoi, Kheri, Lucknow, Barabanki, Bahraich, Faizabad and Gonda. .〔
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