 The latter group are believed to have been soldiers with Muhammad bin Qasim's Arab army, and were called Zanjis.Some Siddis escaped slavery to establish communities in forested areas, and some also established the small Siddi principalities of Janjira State on Janjira Island and Jafarabad State in Kathiawar as early as the twelfth century.A former alternative name of Janjira was Habshan (i.e., land of the Habshis).