Indo-Turkic people

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Not to be confused with Turks in India.
Indo-Turkic people
Languages
South Asian languages; historically various Turkic languages, Early Modern Persian
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples

The group of Turkic people who are of Indian descent are commonly known as the Indo-Turks or Indo-Turkic. They are sometimes categorised as Romanis, but this claim is largely false. Many Indo-Turks live in Central Asia and Russia.

Indian Subcontinent

The ancestors of the Indo-Turkic people, are Turks who migrated to South Asia at the time of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire and intermarried with Indians. The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi-based kingdoms two of which were of Turkic origin in medieval India namely the Mamluk dynasty (Delhi) and Tughlaq dynasty. Other Turkic dynasties which ruled in South Asia include Ghaznavids, Mughal Empire, and Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad. Southern India also saw many Turkic origin dynasties like the Adil Shahi dynasty, the Bidar Sultanate, and the Qutb Shahi dynasty collectively known as the Deccan sultanates. There is also a significant population of Indo-Turkic descendants known as Rowther, mostly found in Southern India.[1]

Ottoman Empire

They are also Indian nomads who went to Central Asia in the Middle Ages, where they intermingled with Turkic people, and called by the host countries where they live in as Lyuli, Multani or Bombay etc. Some of them went trough Caucasus and settled in Anatolia Eyalet, like the Abdal of Turkey, other went to Rumelia Eyalet and Crimean Khanate.[2]

Indian Muslims Merchants went in weaves from 1750 - 1857 from Hindustan to the Ottoman Empire, settled there and intermarried with Ottoman Turks, there descendant today call themself Hintli-Türkler (Indo-Turkic people).[3][4]

Notable dynasties

See also

References

  1. ^ Mohan, Anupama. (2012). Utopia and the village in South Asian literatures. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-230-35498-2. OCLC 785873604.
  2. ^ Marushiakova, Elena; Popov, Vesselin (2016). Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus. ISBN 9783319410562.
  3. ^ https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1717482
  4. ^ Mines, Mattison (1972). "Muslim Merchants: The Economic Behaviour of an Indian Muslim Community".
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