What does a Gangetic Muslim and a Malayali Muslim have in common? The very epic of the Indo-Muslim civilisation begins along the shores of Malabar. Shahnamah-e Hind, the monumental Urdu poetic saga of Indo-Muslim civilisation begins with the legend of Zamorin (king of Malabar) witnessing upon the splitting moon. ​Shared memory are what define and establish civilisational allegiance, and that is what Muslims of Malabar share with fellow Muslims of India.

A man went to a tailor, handed him some fabrics to be stitched, and asked which day should he come to collect. The tailor replied, "come any day except monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, or sunday."

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"a dreadful terrorist like Sharjeel Imam"

The Rajput envoy draws a pointed contrast between Muslim and Maratha overlordship in Rajputana. (The Maratha reporter is outraged with the Hindu-Muslim framing of the envoys, despite the prescence of Rane Khan ‘Bhai’).

Indian Muslims possess a vast literary treasury (in Persian, Sanskrit, Hindavi, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali & more) Imagine if their musicians turned them into music, as Iranians do. Here are few verses from Rajvinod, the Sanskrit ballad of Sultan Mahmud Shah Muzaffarid. 🎧

When even the ruins of Indo-Muslim architecture are so charming, one wonders how magnificent its monuments would look if restored in all their original colours, patterns and motifs. — ft. Nawabate (later Kingdom) of Awadh 📍Faizabad Tomb (ruin]

So, I was going through 18th-century letters and accidentally found a descendant of the Khanzadah dynasty of Mewat (to which the famous Hasan Khan Mewati belonged). Here is all I have found so far. Zulfiqar Khan, a resident of Mathura, was the hereditary Lord of Alinagar, commanding its fort and rich jagir (feudal estate), yielding ₹2 lakh per annum. In 1786, Mahadji Sindhia ordered him to vacate Alinagar fort, which he wanted to garrisoned with the Mughal+Maratha troops. In return, Mahadji assigned an estate yielding ₹15,000 for the family of Zulfiqar and a haveli (mansion)!in Govardhan. Zulfiqar's military establishment were stated to be 150 cavalry and three elephants, while his infantry strength isn't stated. Anyway, commanding 3 elephants and 150 horses surely means his total strength was easily over 1,000 men. Anyway, in 1787, the Mughal-Rajput coalition defeated the Maratha-Mughal coalition at Lalsot, and the fort was again handed to Zulfiqar Khan by the victors. In June 1788, when Mahadji Sindhia re-established his authority, he officially acknowledged Zulfiqar Khan's possession of the fort and estate of Alinagar, and did not disturb him. —— This Zulfiqar Khan was a Khanzadah of Mewat.

Rane Khan ("Bhai Rana Khan"), who is famed as one of the most honoured, beloved, and distinguished noble and general of Rajah Mahadji Sindhia; He was not a Bhisti. He was a Maratha, born into a family of minor feudal aristocrats - the Patils of Devpur. His family had been Muslim for several generations. (Tomb of Rane Khan)

Bhaskar Rao, the Maratha governor of Bharuch, issued an edict ordering lower caste Hindus to remain indoors after 9 a.m., on the grounds that their presence would "pollute" the air and atmosphere for the upper-caste Hindus. No such law existed in the Mughal era, btw.