Total population | |
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108,000 [1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
India | |
Languages | |
Gujarati [1] | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam [1] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
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The Molesalam are a Muslim Rajput[ citation needed] community found in the state of Gujarat in India. [1] They also refer to themselves as Molesalam Thakur and sometimes Molesalam Girasia or मॉलेसलाम [1] (Grasiya). There is some documentation of "nomadic Molesalam", but it is unclear from the single source of the relationship with the "origin community". [2]
The Molesalam were targeted in an oppressive shuddhi ‘purification’ campaign launched by the Arya Samaj Hindu organization in 1908. In March of 1926, the Molesalam held an anti-shuddhi conference in Charotar, led by a prominent leader of their community and member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly, Sardar Naharsinhji Ishvarsinhji. [3]: 114