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Muhajir culture (

partition of British India and subsequent establishment of the Dominion of Pakistan) in 1947 generally to Karachi, the federal capital of Pakistan and before 1947 Karachi is the capital of Sindh. They consist of various ethnicities and linguistic groups.[1]
The Muhajirs are mainly concentrated in Karachi and Hyderabad.

Cultural History

Early history of the Muhajir community

Delhi Sultanate reached its zenith under the Turko-Indian Tughlaq dynasty.[2]

The roots of Muhajirs lie with

Ithnā‘ashariyyah and Sufis of several orders, including the Chishti, Qadiri and Naqshbandi. These Sufi orders were particularly important in converting Hindus to Islam.[citation needed
]

Since the time of the Muslim conquests, the eastern region of the Indus river has been referred to as Hind and later Hindustan.[4] For example, the army of Ghiyas ud din Balban was referred to as "Hindustani" troops, who were attacked by the "Hindus".[5] This was continued by the Mughal Empire, where Muslim Indians were referred to as Hindustanis, while non-Muslim Indians were referred to as Hindus.[6]

Millions of natives converted to

Urdu speaking Muslims of South Asia.[citation needed
]

The

Ihtisham-ul-Mulk, creating and deposing Mughal emperors at will.[9]

The Rohilla leader Daud Khan was awarded the

Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Durrani, Tareen, Kakar, Naghar, Afridi and Khattak) were hired by Mughals to provide soldiers to the Mughal armies.[citation needed] Their performance was appreciated by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, and an additional force of 25,000 Pashtuns were recruited from modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan and were given respected positions in Mughal Army. Nearly all of Pashtuns settled in the Katehar region and also brought their families from modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan. In 1739, a new wave of Pashtuns settled increasing their population to over 1,000,000.[citation needed] After the Third Battle of Panipat fought in 1761 between the Ahmad Shah Durrani and Maratha Empire thousands of Muslim Pashtun, Punjabi and Baloch soldiers settled in the northern India.[citation needed] These diverse ethnic, cultural and linguistic groups merged over the centuries to the form the Urdu speaking Muslims of South Asia.[citation needed
]

It is estimated that about 30% of

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar had significant population of Pashtuns. These Pashtuns over the years lost their language Pashto and culture and adopted Urdu as their first language. Sub-groups also includes the Hyderabadi Muslims, Memon Muslims, Bihari Muslims etc. who keep many of their unique cultural traditions.[10] Muslims from what are now the states of Delhi, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
.

Later history of Muhajir community

When the

Shia Nawabs of Oudh, Rohilkhand by the Rohillas, Bundelkhand by the Marathas and Benaras by its own king, while Nepal controlled Kumaon-Garhwal as a part of Greater Nepal. The state's capital city of Lucknow was established by the Muslim Nawabs of Oudh in the 18th century. It became an important centre of Muslim culture, and the centre for the development of Urdu literature.[11][12]

By the early 19th Century, the

Deobandis, as the movement became known as was to purge the Muslims of all strata of traditions and customs that were claimed to be Hindu
.

The role of

Muhajir ethnic group of Pakistan. The role of the Aligarh Muslim University was extremely important in the creation of Pakistan.[13]

Modern history of the Muhajir community

The

Malayali Muslims in Karachi (the Mappila), originally from Kerala in South India.[14] There is also a sizable community of people of Tamil Muslim heritage. The non-Urdu speaking Muslim refugees from India now speak the Urdu language and have assimilated
into the wider community of Muhajirs.

Muhajir culture is the culture of Muslim nation that migrated mainly from North India after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 generally to Karachi.[15] The Muhajir culture refers to the Pakistani variation of Indo-Islamic culture and part of the Culture of Karachi city in Pakistan.[16][17] It is a blend of Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengali, Bihari, and Uttar Pradesh cultures.[18][19] The core characteristics of Muhajir cultural identity are considered Urdu, education, resistance, urbanism. This variation of culture came into existence mainly after the ethnic riots of 1970s.[20][21]

Language

Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Urdu-speaking people, chiefly in North India and Karachi.[22][23] Urdu is spoken by majority of muhajirs, and is considered the culture language of muhajirs.[24] It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English.[25][26][27]

Urdu has been described as a Persianised register of the Hindustani language;[28][29] Urdu and Hindi share a common Sanskrit- and Prakrit-derived vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually intelligible during colloquial communication.[30][31] While formal Urdu draws literary, political, and technical vocabulary from Persian,[32] formal Hindi draws these aspects from Sanskrit; consequently, the two languages' mutual intelligibility effectively decreases as the factor of formality increases.

Urdu became a literary language in the 18th century and two similar standard forms came into existence in Delhi and Lucknow. Since the partition of India in 1947, a third standard has arisen in the Pakistani city of Karachi.[33][34] According to the World Economic Forum, today, Urdu along with Hindi is considered the eighth most powerful language in the world and the most powerful in modern South Asia, due to the influence on the language of other south asian languages.[35]

Cuisine

Main article: Muhajir cuisine
Hyderabadi biryani

Muhajir cuisine refers to the cuisine of the muhajir people and is covered under both

Roghani Naan, naan, Sheer khurma, and Tea.[43][44]

Traditional dress

Further information: Kurta, Pajamas, and Sari

The traditional clothing of Muhajirs is the traditional clothing worn by Muslims in

Nawabs' attempt to imitate the British evening gown.[50]

Literature and poetry

Main articles: Urdu literature and Urdu poetry

The majority of Muhajirs speak Urdu as their native tongue, therefore most poets and writers write in Urdu.[51][52] Urdu literature, is composed of oral and written scripts and texts in the Urdu language in the form of poetry such as, Ghazals and Nazms and prose such as, dastans.[53] There is a very rich tradition of Urdu literature and poetry running through the history of Muhajir culture.[54] Poetry is the most important part of Urdu literature, and due to this Urdu is widely perceived as a language of poetry.[55] Many aspects of Urdu poetry such as mushaira, a poetic symposium in which ghazals are recited, are considered some of the most important aspects of muhajir culture.[56][57]

Urdu literature originated some time around the 14th century in present-day North India among the sophisticated gentry of the courts.[53] The continuing traditions of Islam and patronisations of foreign culture centuries earlier by Muslim rulers, usually of Turkic or Afghan descent, marked their influence on the Urdu language given that both cultural heritages were strongly present throughout Urdu-speaking territory.[53] Urdu's poetry took its final shape in the 17th century when it was declared the official language of the court,[58] while literary prose started with the penning of Sabras in the year 1635 — in Deccan, by Mulla Asadullah Wajhi on the orders of Abdullah Qutb Shah.[59]

Urdu literature heavily influenced the muhajir identity, but in turn was influenced by it. In the 1930s, Urdu press emerged as a strong antithesis to the anti-Muslim League political discourse. Urdu press emboldened young and educated Muslims of northern India to resist colonial oppression and question Congress’s dual policy of supporting secularism and opposing democratic autonomy to Muslim-majority areas.[60] Zafar Ali Khan declared Pakistan "a homeland for Urdu journalism," and later encouraged muslims to migrate there.[61] Migration, displacement, nostalgia, homecoming, and reclamation were introduced to Urdu literature after 1947 and they constitute the themes of most Urdu literature written since the early 1960s.[62]

Festivals

A Muhajir Cultural Day rally outside Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi

Festivals celebrated by Muhajirs include religious, political, ethnic, and

All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organization.[64][65][66] Muhajirs celebrate Muhajir Cultural Day as an ethnic and cultural festival.[67] To celebrate this day, rallies depart from all areas of Karachi to Mazar-e-Quaid, and political parties and civil society organisations set up their camps to welcome participants in the rally and to express solidarity.[68]

See also

  • Muhajir people

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