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The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 337– 356. ISBN 978-3-11-080775-2. Imam Ali, A.F. (September 1993). Changing Social Stratification in Rural Bangladesh. South Asia Books. ISBN 978-81-7169-267-5. Syed Ali (December 2002). "Collective and Elective Ethnicity: Caste Among Urban Muslims in India". Sociological ...
Muslim Gujjars or Musalmān Gujjars (Punjabi: مُسَلمَان گُجَّر) are an ethno-religious group predominantly found in the north-western regions of South Asia. They embraced Islam from the medieval period onwards.
South Asia was primarily Hindu in ancient times. Buddhism appeared around 500 BCE. [10]Christianity and Islam made an appearance in Kerala during this time period; Saint Thomas is believed to have travelled to Kerala soon after the death of Jesus and converted some people, [11] while the first mosque to be built in India was built during the Islamic prophet Muhammad's lifetime in Kerala. [12]
Following is a list of Punjabi Muslim tribes, castes and surnames, mainly those with origins in Punjab, Pakistan. Note that some of these may have a significant non-Muslim population. Note that some of these may have a significant non-Muslim population.
According to some scholars, the Malabar Muslims are the oldest settled native Muslim community in South Asia. [2] [13] In general, a Muslim Mappila is a descendant of Hindu lower caste natives who converted to Islam. [14] [15] Mappilas are but one among the many communities that form the Muslim population of Kerala. No Census Report where the ...
Most South Asian kingdoms and princely states valued Kayasthas as desired citizens or immigrants in the second millennium. They treated the Kayasthas more as a community than a Hindu caste, because they developed expertise in Persian (the state language in Islamic India), and learned Turkish and Arabic , economics, administration and taxation.
Caste system among South Asian Christians; Creamy layer; D. ... Caste system among South Asian Muslims; N. ... Particularly vulnerable tribal group;
The Memon are a Muslim community in Gujarat India, and Sindh, Pakistan, the majority of whom follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. [4] They are divided into different groups based on their origins: Kathiawari Memons, Kutchi Memons and Bantva Memons from the Kathiawar, Kutch and Bantva regions of Gujarat respectively, and Sindhi Memons from Sindh.