Sahi or Shahi (साही, ساھی, meaning "royal") is a clan of Jat (Sikh & Muslim), Rajput and Arain Muslims.

Sahis (Shahis) are primarily agrarians and found on either sides of Punjab (Indian/Pakistani Punjab). They can be HIndus, Sikhs and Muslim According to Sir Denzil Ibbetson's famous research work "Punjab Castes", Sahis are the Jatts of "Sikh and Muslim Tract" (Page 81, last paragraph). Sir Denzel further writes : These Jatts of Punjab inclujjde those great Muslim tribes who have made the race so renowned in the history. They occupy the central districts of the Punjab (Unified Punjab before the partition of subcontinent) the upper Satluj and the great Sikh states of eastern plains.

Sahis claim their descent from Suryanvanshi Rajput who went to Ghazni with Mahmud Ghaznavi and returned to find the tribe settling on the Ravi near Lahore. They are found in any numbers in Sahiwal, Gujrat and Sialkot, Faisalabad,Haroon Abad (109/6 R) India, Punjab.

In Pakistani Punjab they are mainly found in district Sialkot, Sahiwal, Faisalabad and Nankana Sahib (former tehsil of Sheikhupura). In Sialkot district Sahis are commonly residing in towns and villages of Daska, Mandranwala, Sohawa, Jaisarwala, Dhidowali, Jajay Sahian, Ranjhai, Mirkoh, Taddo and Mundekey. Some of the Sahi Jatts are based in Lahore, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Sahiwal (Chak 60-61/G.D, Chak 62/G.D, Thatha Sahian), Sahi in Sargodha, Depalpur, Sahiwal (Chak 114/12.L Chichawatni) Faisalabad (Malkhanwala 225 R/B etc.) and Jhelum districts of Punjab.In district Nankana sahib some sahi jatts are dwelling at Thatha Sahian- some 6km from bucheki and near sayyadwala.

Aahoo Jahansouz "Sarah" Shahi (born January 10, 1980) is an American actress and a former NFL Cheerleader. She is probably best known for starring in The L Word as Carmen de la Pica Morales and in Life as Detective Dani Reese. In 2011, she began playing the role of Kate Reed in the legal drama Fairly Legal on the USA Network.

Sarah Shahi was born and grew up in Euless, Texas. She has an Iranian father, Abbas Shahi, and a Mexican mother, known as Mahmonir, who was an interior designer. Her father's family left their homeland two years before the Iranian Revolution. Her birthname, Aahoo (Persian: آهو‎), means "gazelle" in Persian.

Shahi adopted Sarah as her name in second grade after hearing the song "Sarah" because she was "tormented" by other children. At her father's behest she grew up speaking Persian, as well as English. Shahi's parents began entering her in beauty pageants at the age of eight. Her parents divorced when she was 10. Shahi attended Trinity High School, where she was captain of the volleyball and basketball teams, and Dallas' Southern Methodist University, majoring in English and Theater. Shahi won the Miss Fort Worth USA pageant in 1997;^{[citation needed]} hoping to become an actress, she joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 1999–2000 squad despite not having cheered before, and appeared on the cover of the squad's 2000 calendar before moving to Los Angeles.

The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood. The show ran from 2004 to 2009.

The show was created by executive producer Ilene Chaiken (Barb Wire, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air). Other executive producers include Steve Golin (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Larry Kennar (Barbershop). Besides Chaiken, writers of the show have included Guinevere Turner (Go Fish, American Psycho), Cherien Dabis (Amreeka), and Rose Troche (Go Fish, Six Feet Under).

The pilot episode premiered on January 18, 2004. The original five year run ended with the series finale's airing on March 8, 2009. Outside the United States, the series is distributed by MGM Worldwide Television. The L Word was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Coast Mountain Films Studios, which was formerly known as Dufferin Gate Studios Vancouver, as well as on location in Los Angeles, California. The studio was once owned by Dufferin Gate Productions, the sister company to Temple Street Productions, the Canadian producer of the U.S. version of Queer as Folk.