Mahajir (Pakistan)
Mahajirs/Mohajir/Muhajir (مہاجر) constitute about 8 percent of the population. They are Muslims who settled in Pakistan after the end of British India in 1947. Unlike other cultural ethnic groups of Pakistan, they do not have a tribe-based cultural identity. Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, is their native tongue, though many muhajirs speak other languages such as Gujarati, Memoni, Marwari etc as their mother tongue. Mohajirs were the vanguard of the Pakistan Movement, which advocated the partition of British India in order to create the independent nation of Pakistan for Indian Muslims. After the partition, a large number of Muslims migrated from various urban centers of India to live in the new nation of Pakistan. These migrants later identified themselves as mohajirs.
مہاجر | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 15 million (2017 estimate)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Karachi, Hyderabad and in many other large cities in Pakistan | |
| Languages | |
| Urdu[2] (Gujarati) (Memoni)[3][4][5][3][4][5] Rajasthani[6] East Punjabi[7] | |
| Religion | |
| Islam (mostly Sunni, minority Shia) Christianity[8] |
A large number of Mohajirs settled in the cities of Sindh Province, particularly Karāchi and Hyderābād. Today they remain mostly urban.
Mahajir (Pakistan) Media
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Someone saved a page from the Manchester Guardian in a scrapbook 1
Distribution of Urdu-speaking Muhajirs in Pakistan as per 2017 census.
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Muslim refugees in the Tomb of Humayun
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Muslim refugees boarding a train in September 1947, similar to those involved in the massacre, with the intent of fleeing India
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This film contrasts the old and new India and Pakistan, with emphasis on the Bangladesh and Kashmir disputes.
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Indian Muslim nationalist Maulana Shaukat Ali (1873-1938) and his wife in Southampton, England, on their way to the United States in 1932.
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Mass protest of Muhajirs in favour of MQM
Hyderabadi Dum Biryani, a popular type of biryani
References
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- ↑ Ahmed, Feroz. "Ethnicity and politics: The rise of Muhajir separatism." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 8.1_and_2 (1988): 33-45.
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