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Ghaus Ansari uses the term "caste" to describe Muslim social groups with the following characteristics: endogamy within the group; hierarchical gradation of groups; determination of group membership by birth; and, in some cases, association by occupation with a social group. [25]
The Muslim Dhobi are a South Asian Muslim caste whose traditional occupation is washing clothes. They are considered to be Muslim converts from Hinduism, where the Dhobi castes are launderers. Muslim Dhobis are found throughout the Indian subcontinent. [citation needed] The community is also known as Charhoa and Gazar in Pakistan, and Qassar in ...
Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia, with more than 650 million Muslims living there, forming about one-third of the region's population. Islam first spread along the coastal regions of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, almost as soon as it started in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Arab traders brought it to South Asia.
A group of caste equity leaders have been fasting for over two weeks to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign SB403, a bill that would make caste discrimination illegal in California.
Many in civil rights spaces said SB403 would have given Americans born into caste-oppressed groups a channel to fight discrimination legally, but other South Asian groups said the bill was racist ...
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 either a descendant of Hindu upper caste natives who converted to Islam or a mixed Arab individual. [14] [15] Mappilas are but one among the many communities that form the Muslim population of ...
The largest ethnolinguistic group in South Asia are the Indo-Aryans, numbering around 1 billion, and the largest subgroup are the native speakers of Hindi languages, numbering more than 470 million. These groups are based solely on a linguistic basis and not on a genetic basis.
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.