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Gentry in South Asia
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Early Muslim social differentiations
in South Asia developed into caste categories and, by early modern times, even reflected structural analogies to the highly stratified Hindu
varṇa system with regard to legal punishments that favoured the
gentry
(ashrāf, pl.
shurafāʾ), as laid out in the
Fatāwā-yi ʿĀlamgīrī. Competition amongst various interest groups in South Asia led, over the course of time, to numerous divisions in the social composition of an arguably egalitarian Islam in a hierarchical Hindu majority social system. 1. The emergence of social differentiation Early Muslim…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
