Khoja
a caste
Khowaja or Khoja are Shia (Nizari Isma'ili) muslim community of Sindh, Pakistan and Gujarat, India. They were of Baniya and Lohana caste groups (merchants and traders), who converted to Islam from Hinduism under Muslim Pīr Ṣadr al-Dīn.[1][2]
References
change- ↑ Tyler, Stephen A. (1986). India: an anthropological perspective (Reissued ed.). Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Pr. ISBN 978-0-88133-245-2.
- ↑ The Persian Gulf in Modern Times. doi:10.1057/9781137485779.