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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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The Narrative Prayers ( kaha ) of the Indo-African Khōjā

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

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