Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. From 30 July 2010 to 10 June 2012, Dr. S. Y. Quraishi served as the Chief Election Commissioner of India. In the list of most influential Muslims list by Georgetown University, there were 21 Indians (in 2017) like Maulana Mahmood Madani, Akhtar Raza Khan, Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, Wahiduddin Khan, Abul Qasim Nomani Syed Muhammad Ameen Mian Qaudri, Amir Khan and Aboobacker Ahmad Musliyar. 300–310, Muslim Caste in Uttar Pradesh (A Study of Culture Contact), Ghaus Ansari, Lucknow, 1960, p. 66. However, the Sachar Committee Report shows that the Muslim Population Growth has slowed down and will be on par with national averages. India has seen three Muslim presidents and many chief ministers of State Governments have been Muslims. Almost all Islamic monuments were subjected to free use of verses from the Quran and a great amount of time was spent in carving out minute details on walls, ceilings, pillars and domes. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund, A History of India, 3rd Edition, Routledge, 1998, A. Welch, "Architectural Patronage and the Past: The Tughluq Sultans of India," Muqarnas 10, 1993, Brill Publishers, pp 311-322, sfn error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFAsherTalbot2008 (, The Ismaili, their history and doctrine by Farhad Daftary. Normally the whole tomb complex or rauza is surrounded by an enclosure. The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, had authority over only the city of Shahjahanabad, before he was exiled to Burma by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. audio All audio latest This Just In Grateful Dead Netlabels Old Time Radio 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings. Zacharia in Kerala in 1983 revealed that on average, the number of children born to a Muslim woman was 4.1 while a Hindu woman gave birth to only 2.9 children. [272], Tens of thousands of Muslims are living with a disguised identity as Sikhs since the confessional cleansing during the Partition of India.[273]. Relations between the Buddhists and Muslims in Leh improved after the lifting of the boycott, although suspicions remained.[275]. ", "Consultative Meeting on the situation of Dalits in Bangladesh", "The System of Social Stratification in Swat, North Pakistan", "Backward Muslims protest denial of burial", Gene Diversity in Some Muslim Populations of North India, "S.Y. Rawlinson in his book Ancient and Medieval History of India[27] claims that the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century CE. For more than five decades EPW has remained a unique forum that week after week has brought together academics, researchers, policy makers, independent thinkers, members of non-governmental organisations and political activists for debates straddling economics, politics, sociology, culture, the environment and numerous other disciplines. [88] Noted Indian sociologist, B.K. The contribution of Muslim revolutionaries, poets and writers is documented in the history of India's struggle for independence. [145][139], Barrani was specific in his recommendation that the "sons of Mohamed" [i.e. His Chishti Order went on to become the most influential Sufi lineage in India, although other orders from Central Asia and Southwest Asia also reached India and played a major role in the spread of Islam. The partition included the geographical division of the Bengal province into East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan (from 1956, East Pakistan). [154] In three genetic studies representing the whole of South Asian Muslims, it was found that the Muslim population was overwhelmingly similar to the local non-Muslims associated with minor but still detectable levels of gene flow from outside, primarily from Iran and Central Asia, rather than directly from the Arabian Peninsula.[133]. Moulai Yaqoob was the first person of Indian origin to receive this honour under the Dā'ī. Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Mohammad Azharuddin captained the Indian cricket team on various occasions. Other than Muslims, Hindu higher and middle caste group members were also selected for the genetic analysis. Prominent Indian bureaucrats and diplomats include Abid Hussain, Ali Yavar Jung and Asaf Ali. [46] The period coincided with a greater use of mechanical technology in the Indian subcontinent. Due to persecution by the local Zaydi Shi'a ruler in Yemen, the 24th Dai, Yusuf Najmuddin ibn Sulaiman (d. 1567 CE), moved the whole administration of the Dawat (mission) to India. Syedi Fakhruddin, son of Moulai Tarmal, was sent to western Rajasthan, India, and Moulai Nuruddin went to the Deccan (death: Jumadi al-Ula 11 at Don Gaum, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India). The concept of arch or dome was not invented by the Muslims but was, in fact, borrowed and further perfected by them from the architectural styles of the post-Roman period. 32 Masail e Eid Qurban. In the underground chamber lies the mortuary or the maqbara, in which the corpse is buried in a grave or qabr. [257] In one textbook, it was purported that the Taj Mahal, the Qutb Minar and the Red Fort – all examples of Islamic architecture – "were designed and commissioned by Hindus".[258]. Popular Indian singers of Muslim faith include Mohammed Rafi, Anu Malik, Lucky Ali, Talat Mahmood and Shamshad Begum. Though Muslims are under-represented in the Indian Armed Forces, as compared to Hindus and Sikhs,[172] several Indian military Muslim personnel have earned gallantry awards and high ranks for exceptional service to the nation. [241] Historians Elliot and Dowson say in their book The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, that the first ship bearing Muslim travellers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 CE. According to Richard Symonds: At the lowest estimate, half a million people perished and twelve million became homeless. [242], During the Noakhali riots in 1946, several thousand Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam by Muslim mobs.[243][244]. The applicability of the amendments are debated in news as it is on religious lines (excluding Muslims). all spaces were spanned by means of horizontal beams, the Islamic architecture was arcuate, i.e. Ali NG is on Facebook. Rizvi (The Wonder That Was India – II), however points to Muhammad bin Tughluq as not only encouraging locals but promoting artisan groups such as cooks, barbers and gardeners to high administrative posts. Indian Muslims are poorer and less educated compared to their Hindu counterparts. [255], In 2004, several Indian school textbooks were scrapped by the National Council of Educational Research and Training after they were found to be loaded with anti-Muslim prejudice. The boycott remained in force till 1992. New elements were introduced into the Indian architecture that include: use of shapes (instead of natural forms); inscriptional art using decorative lettering or calligraphy; inlay decoration and use of coloured marble, painted plaster and brightly coloured glazed tiles.