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| Publication Type | Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2014 | |
| Date Published | 2014 | |
| Authors | Akhtar, Iqbal | |
| Original Publication | Narrative Culture, Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 2014), pp. 217-238 | |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Narrative Culture. | |
| Key Words | Khōjā; Indic Muslim; Indus valley; Kutch; Kathiawar | |
| Full Text | The Khōjā are an Indic Muslim caste whose origins lie in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Punjab and Kashmir. Over the following centuries a section of the community began a migration down the Indus valley and eastward into Kutch and Kathiawar, located in present-day Gujarat. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century the community began to migrate as traders throughout the western Indian Ocean littoral, establishing trading networks from Zanzibar to China (Nānjiāṇī 1–40, 256). |
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The Narrative Prayers ( kaha ) of the Indo-African Khōjā
The Khōjā are an Indic Muslim caste whose origins lie in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Punjab and Kashmir. Over the following centuries a section of the community began a migration down the Indus valley and eastward into Kutch and Kathiawar, located in present-day Gujarat. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century the community began to migrate as traders throughout the western Indian Ocean littoral, establishing trading networks from Zanzibar to China (Nānjiāṇī 1–40, 256).
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