Khoja
a caste
Khuwaja or Khoja are Shia (Nizari Isma'ili) muslim community of Sindh, Pakistan and Gujarat, India. They were of Baniya caste groups (traders), who converted to Islam from Hinduism under Muslim pirs (saints).[1]
References change
- ↑ Tyler, Stephen A. (1986). India: an anthropological perspective (Reissued ed.). Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Pr. ISBN 978-0-88133-245-2.