The Ker are a Muslim Rajput community found in the state of Gujarat in India and a province of Sindh in Pakistan. They are one of a number of communities of pastoral nomads found in the Banni region of Kutch.
the conversion of the Ker clan in Kacch. Formerly Hindus and led by the pious Jam Jakharo Ganga Jaliyo who bathed daily in Ganges water, they were converted to Islam by Bauddin (Baha al-Dln) Pir, who lived, according to tradition, in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. In the nineteenth century, they retained Rajput names, intermarried with the Jadejas and refrained from dining with other Muslims, but exchanged daughters with the Muslim PTrzadas of Sind.
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