Dakhini Muslims

The Dakhini/Deccani Muslims, or Deccani People are a community of diverse peoples from various ethnic backgrounds who inhabit the Deccan region of Southern India, and speak the Dakhini language, a form of Urdu.[3] The community now has their own separate ethnic identity, but the Dakhini Muslims come from various native and foreign ethnic backgrounds. Their history can be traced to the Bahmani Sultanate, which was the first Independent Muslim kingdom in southern India,[4] and the Deccan Sultanates which followed its demise.[5] Dakhini Muslims can have Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Turkic ancestries in addition to having the local Dravidian and Indo Aryan heritage.[6] Dakhini Muslims, are found in many places throughout South India, extending from southern Maharashtra, to northern Tamil Nadu including Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala where Dakhini Muslims from the north migrated, and formed a community there.[7] There are also large diaspora communities, especially in Pakistan, where they settled after Indian independence, forming a portion of the Urdu speaking minority of Pakistan, the Muhajirs.[8]

Deccani Muslims
Deccani People
Urdu: دکنی مسلمان‎, romanized: 
(Dakani Musalmān)
Total population
23,000,000 [1][2]
Regions with significant populations
 India •  Pakistan •  Saudi Arabia •  United Arab Emirates •  United States •  United Kingdom
Languages
Urdu in the forms of Hyderabadi Urdu and the Dakhini sub-dialect as well as standard Urdu• Hindi • Telugu • Marathi• Tamil• Sindhi • English • The vernacular languages of other countries in the diaspora
Religion
•Islam

• Majority Sufi Sunni

• Minority Shia and Isma'ilism
Related ethnic groups
• Other Indian Muslim communities • Tamil people • Andhra Muslims • Marathi Muslims • Hyderabadi Muslims • Muhajir people

History

The word Deccani (Persian: دکنی‎ from Prakrit dakkhin "south") was derived in the court of Bahmani rulers in 1487 AD during Sultan Mahmood Shah Bahmani II.[9]

See also

References
  1. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/c-01.html
  2. Fatihi, A.R. "Urdu in Andhra Pradesh". Language in India. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Kya ba so ba – Learning to speak south-indian urdu". www.zanyoutbursts.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  4. "Bahmani sultanate | historical Muslim state, India". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  5. "Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  6. Eaton, Richard Maxwell (1996). Sufis of Bijapur, 1300 - 1700 : social roles of Sufis in medieval India (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publ. p. 41. ISBN 978-8121507400. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  7. Mohammada, Malika (1 January 2005). Culture of Hindi. Kalinga Publications. ISBN 9788187644736.
  8. Leonard, Karen Isaksen (1 January 2007). Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804754422.
  9. Narendra Luther (1991). Prince;Poet;Lover;Builder: Mohd. Quli Qutb Shah - The founder of Hyderabad. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. ISBN 9788123023151. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

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