Turkic peoples in India
Turkic peoples (including the Turks of Turkey) have historically been associated as one of the non-indigenous peoples to have ruled areas of India and the Indian subcontinent. Although modern day Turks in India are very small in number, and are likely 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]
Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire was of Turkic (possibly Uzbek) descent | |
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History and origin edit
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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] 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).[citation needed] 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 and Timur (Tamerlane). These Turks had come from Turkistan region in what is now Central Asia.[citation needed]
Present circumstances edit
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, Pathanamthitta, Erattupetta, Palakkad district, Alappuzha district in Kerala.[citation needed]
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 edit
- Taj al-Din Yildiz, general of the Delhi Sultanate
- Mamluk dynasty of Delhi
- Shah Turkan, mistress of Iltutmish
- Malik Altunia, consort of Razia Sultan
- Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, general of the Delhi Sultanate
- Muhammad Shiran Khalji, the 2nd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Delhi Sultanate
- Iwaz Khalji, the 3rd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Delhi Sultanate
- Ali Mardan Khalji, the 3rd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Delhi Sultanate
- Malik Balkha Khalji, the last Khalji 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
- Tughral Tughan Khan, 3rd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk Delhi Sultanate
- Tughlaq Tamar Khan, 4th 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
- Nasiruddin Bughra Khan, 13th governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Mamluk Delhi Sultanate
- Rukunuddin Kaikaus, 1st governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Balban Delhi Sultanate
- Shamsuddin Firuz Shah, 2nd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Balban Delhi Sultanate
- Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah, 3rd governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Balban Delhi Sultanate
- Izz al-Din Yahya, 6th governor of Bengal (Lakhnauti) under the Tughlaq Delhi Sultanate
- Munim Khan, 1st Mughal Subahdar of Bengal Subah
- Khan Jahan I, 2nd Mughal Subahdar of Bengal Subah
- Jahangir Quli Beg, Mughal Subahdar of Bengal Subah
- Nasir ad-Din Qabacha, Governor of Multan
- Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III, 1st Nawab of Baoni State
- Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire wife of prince Azam Jah
- Princess Niloufer, Princess of the Ottoman Empire wife of prince Moazzam Jah
- Princess Esra, wife of Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad
- Manolya Onur, wife of Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad
- Muhammad Beg Khan-e Rosebahani, was Qiladar and Jagirdar of Banganapalle
- Jackie Shroff, Indian actor
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Census India 1961. "MOTHER TONGUES OF INDIA ACCORDING TO THE 1961 CENSUS". Retrieved 2009-03-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Census India 2001. "POPULATION CLASSIFIED BY PLACE OF BIRTH AND SEX" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "India Exclusive". Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ 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