Turkic peoples in India

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Not to be confused with Indo-Turkic people.
Turks in India
Languages
Urdu, English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Turkic languages (negligibly)
Religion
Islam

Turkic peoples have historically been associated as one of the non-indigenous peoples to have ruled areas of the Indian subcontinent. Modern day Turkish people in India, on the other hand, are very small in number, and are recent immigrants from Turkey. In the 1961 census, 58 people stated that their mother tongue was Turkish.[1] According to the 2001 census, 126 residents of India stated their place of birth as Turkey.[2] In a state visit during early 2010, Prime Minister Abdullah Gül of Turkey met Turkish expatriates living in India and handed out Hindi-Turkish dictionaries to Turkish students in New Delhi.[3]

History and origin[]

The first known mention of the term Turk applied to a Turkic group was in reference to the Göktürks in the 6th century, who were based in modern Mongolia. Over time, the term has devolved onto the Turks of modern day Turkey, but historically was also used to describe Central Asian Turkic groups. The Turk biradari claim their descent from the latter group. Turks of Rohilkhand and the Terai region. One such tradition claims that the Turks came to India as soldiers who accompanied the 11th century warrior-saint Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud or Ghazi Miyan (circa 1014 – 1034 CE). The Turk settlement took place at a latter date. Indeed some Turks groups, particularly those in Rampur, that are originally emigrants from Central Asia, and came in the army of Alauddin Khalji, Shahabddin Ghori & Amir Timur lane. These Turks had come from Turkistan region in what is now Central Asia.

Göktürk wave (5th-8th c.)[]

The First Turkic Khaganate in 568
Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
Main article: Göktürks

Present circumstances[]

The Turks live in northern India, mainly in Delhi, Gaziabad, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, Udhamsingh Nagar, Nainital and Haldwani in Kumaon, Bhopal and Junagarh in Gujarat and in South India mainly in the city of Hyderabad in Telangana, Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Mysore, Srirangapatna of Karnataka, Banganapalle, Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh, Arcot, Tamil Nadu in Tamil Nadu. The region has 40 to 55% Muslim electorate. They upset electoral calculations in five Parliament and 27 provincial Assembly constituencies in uttar Pradesh.

The community had traditionally served as soldiers in the armies of the various princely states in the Kathiawar Agency. They are also good traders Like other Gujarati Muslims, they have a caste association known as the Jamat, which acts both as a welfare organization and an instrument of social control.[4]

Notable people[]

  • Ghaznavid dynasty
  • Iwaz Khalji, the 3rd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Delhi Sultanate
  • Saifuddin Aibak, 1st governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk Delhi Sultanate
  • Awar Khan Aibak, 2nd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk Delhi Sultanate
  • Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Iuzbak, 6th governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk Delhi Sultanate
  • Ijjauddin Balban Iuzbaki, 7th governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk Delhi Sultanate
  • Izz al-Din Yahya, 6th governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Tughlaq Delhi Sultanate
  • Barid Shahi dynasty
  • Mirza Ghalib, poet
  • Princess Niloufer, Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire wife of prince Moazzam Jah

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Census India 1961. "MOTHER TONGUES OF INDIA ACCORDING TO THE 1961 CENSUS". Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  2. ^ Census India 2001. "POPULATION CLASSIFIED BY PLACE OF BIRTH AND SEX" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  3. ^ "India Exclusive". Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. ^ People of India Gujarat Volume XXI Part Three edited by R.B Lal, P.B.S.V Padmanabham, G Krishnan & M Azeez Mohideen pages 1394-1399
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