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The Muhajir people (also spelled Mahajir and Mohajir) (Urdu: مہاجر, lit.'Immigrant') are Muslim immigrants of various ethnic groups and regional origins, and their descendants, who migrated from various regions of India after the 1947 independence to settle in the newly independent state of Pakistan.[10][11] The community includes those immigrants' descendants, most of whom are settled in Karachi and other major urban centres of Pakistan.[12]
The total population of the Muhajir people worldwide is estimated to be around 15 million, and the overwhelming majority of this figure (14.7 million) is located in Pakistan, according to the 2017 Pakistani census. Though the official controversial 2017 census of Karachi, which has historically hosted the country's largest Muhajir population, has been challenged by most of Sindh's political parties.
Etymology
The Urdu term muhājir (Urdu: مہاجر) comes from the Arabic muhājir (Arabic: مهاجر), meaning an "immigrant",[13][14][15] or "emigrant".[16] This term is associated in early Islamic history to the migration of Muslims and connotes ‘separation, migration, flight, specifically the flight of the Prophet from Mecca to Medina’.[17][18] This term was popularized in Pakistan by the 1951 census, although its earliest uses date back to Partition.[19]
Muhajirs, worldwide, have a population of over 15 million.[23] Muhajirs are mostly settled in Pakistan and currently are the fifth-largest ethnic group of Pakistan, with a population of around 14.7-30 million.[24]
Although the population figures of the Muhajir dominated city of Karachi, have faced many controversies mainly due to the controversial 2017 census of Pakistan. The population figure has been rejected by most major political parties of Sindh including MQM-P,[25]PSP,[26] and PPP.[27][28] Estimates of Muhajir nationalist organizations range from 22 million[29] to around 30 million.[30]
Historically, muhajirs have constituted above 7% population of West Pakistan (3.5% in Pakistan as a whole).[31]
Languages
Being a multi-linguistic group of people, the Muhajirs speak different languages natively depending on their ethnicity and ancestral history.[32][33][34][35]
In Punjab, although most migrants were of East Punjab origin and Punjabi speaking, a sizable number of natively Urdu speaking communities also migrated to its urban centres mainly from Delhi, Rohtak, Hisar, Karnal, Alwar, Bharatpur, Jodhpur, Mewat and UP.[40]
There are an estimated 14.7 million Urdu speakers presumably mostly of Muhajir origin in Pakistan.[24] Most of them are settled in the towns and cities of Pakistan mainly those of Urban Sindh, such as Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas and Sukkur. Muhajir pockets are also found in other metropolises of Pakistan such as Islamabad and Lahore.[56]
The ancestors of the present day muhajirs started gaining political and cultural influence during the reign of the mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, who gave Urdu the status of literary language,[76] and replaced Persian as the language of the Muslim elite.[77][78]
Prior to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, British territories in South Asia were controlled by the East India Company.[79] The company maintained the fiction of running the territories on behalf of the Urdu-speakingMughal empire.[80] The defeat of Mutineers in 1857 -1858 led to the abolition of the Mughal empire and the British government taking direct control of the Indian territories.[81] In the immediate aftermath of the rebellion, upper-class Muslims, the ancestors of present-day Muhajirs, were targeted by the British, as some of the leadership for the war came from this community based in areas around Delhi and what is now Uttar Pradesh; thousands of them and their families were shot, hanged, or blown away by cannons.[82] According to Mirza Ghalib, Urdu-speaking women were also targeted because the rebel soldiers sometimes disguised themselves as women.[83] This era left a great impact on the history, culture and ideologies of present-day Muhajirs, and due to the large number of muhajirs being descended from Mughals, and because of the impact of Mughals, they are sometimes referred to as "the grandchildren of Mughals".[84]
The Partition of India was the largest migration in human history.[85] Many Muslims migrating from India to Pakistan were killed by Hindus and Sikhs, while many Hindus and Sikhs were killed by Muslims.[86] After the independence of Pakistan, a significant number of Muslims emigrated or were out-migrated from the territory that became the Dominion of India and later the Republic of India.[87] In the aftermath of partition, a huge population exchange occurred between the two newly formed states.[87] In the riots which preceded the partition, between 200,000 and 2,000,000 people were killed in the retributive genocide.[88][89]UNHCR estimates 14 million Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims were displaced during the partition; it was the largest mass migration in human history.[90][91][92]
First immigration wave (August–November 1947)
There were three predominant stages of Muslim migration from India to West Pakistan. The first stage lasted from August–November 1947. In this stage of migration the Muslim immigrants originated from East Punjab, Delhi, the four adjacent districts of U.P., and the princely states of Alwar and Bharatpur which are now part of the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan.[93] The violence affecting these areas during partition precipitated an exodus of Muslims from these areas to Pakistan.[93] Punjabi Muslims from East Punjab crossed to West Punjab and settled in a culturally and linguistically similar environment.[94]
The migration to Sindh was of a different nature to that in Punjab, as the migrants to Sindh were ethnically heterogenous and were linguistically different from the locals.[95] The migrants were also more educated than the native, and predominantly rural Sindhi Muslims who had been less educated and less prosperous than the former Sindhi Hindu residents, suffered as a result.[96] The migrants, who were urban, also tended to regard the local Sindhis as "backwards" and subservient to landowners.[97]
Prior to the partition, the majority of urban Sindh's population had been Hindu,[98] but after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the majority of Sindh's Hindus migrated to India,[94] although a substantial number of Hindus did remain in Sindh.[99] 1.1 million Muslims from Uttar Pradesh, Bombay Presidency, Delhi, and Rajasthan settled in their place; half in Karachi and the rest across Sindh's other cities.[100][94] By the 1951 census, the migrants constituted 57 percent of the population of Karachi, 65 percent in Hyderabad, and 55 percent in Sukkur.[101] As Karachi was the capital of the new nation, educated urban migrants from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bombay, Bihar, and HyderabadDeccan preferred it as their site of settlement for better access to employment opportunities.[102] The migrants were compensated for their properties lost in India by being granted the evacuee property left behind by the departing Hindus.[97] A sizable community of Malayali Muslims (the Mappila), originally from Kerala in South India, also settled in Karachi.[103][104]
Second immigration wave (December 1947 – December 1971)
In 1952, a joint passport system was introduced for travel purposes between the two countries which made it possible for Indian Muslims to legally move to Pakistan.[105] Pakistan still required educated and skilled workers to absorb into its economy at the time, due to relatively low levels of education (15.9 percent in 1961) in Pakistan.[106] As late as December 1971, the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi was authorized to issue documents to educationally-qualified Indians to migrate to Pakistan.[107] The legal route was taken by unemployed but educated Indian Muslims seeking better fortunes, however poorer Muslims from India continued to go illegally via the Rajasthan-Sindh border until the 1965 India–Pakistan war when that route was shut.[108] After the conclusion of the 1965 war, most Muslims who wanted to go to Pakistan had to go there via the East Pakistani-India border. Once reaching Dhaka, most made their way to the final destination-Karachi.[93] However, not all managed to reach West Pakistan from East Pakistan.[93]
In 1959, the International Labour Organization (ILO) published a report stating that between the period of 1951–1956, around 650,000 Muslims from India relocated to West Pakistan.[109] However, Visaria (1969) raised doubts about the authenticity of the claims about Indian Muslim migration to Pakistan, since the 1961 Census of Pakistan did not corroborate these figures.[110] However, the 1961 Census of Pakistan did incorporate a statement suggesting that there had been a migration of 800,000 people from India to Pakistan throughout the previous decade.[111] Of those who had left for Pakistan, most never came back. The Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru conveyed distress about the continued migration of Indian Muslims to West Pakistan:
There has...since 1950 been a movement of some Muslims from India to Western Pakistan through Jodhpur–Sindh via Khokhropar. Normally, traffic between India and West Pakistan was controlled by the permit system. But these Muslims going via Khokhropar went without permits to West Pakistan. From January 1952 to the end of September, 53,209 Muslim emigrants went via Khokhropar....Most of these probably came from the U.P. In October 1952, up to the 14th, 6,808 went by this route. After that Pakistan became much stricter on allowing entry on the introduction of the passport system. From 15 October to the end of October, 1,247 went by this route. From 1 November, 1,203 went via Khokhropar.[112]
Indian Muslim migration to West Pakistan continued unabated despite the cessation of the permit system between the two countries and the introduction of the passport system between them.[93]
Third immigration wave (1973–1990s)
The third stage, which lasted between 1973 and the 1990s, was when migration levels of Indian Muslims to Pakistan was reduced to its lowest levels since 1947.[113]Indian Muslim migration to Pakistan had declined drastically by the 1970s, a trend noticed by the Pakistani authorities. In June 1995, Pakistan's interior minister, Naseerullah Babar, informed the National Assembly that between the period of 1973–1994, as many as 800,000 visitors came from India on valid travel documents, of which only 3,393 stayed.[93] In a related trend, intermarriages between Indian and Pakistani Muslims have declined sharply. According to a November 1995 statement of Riaz Khokhar, the Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi, the number of cross-border marriages has declined from 40,000 a year in the 1950s and 1960s to barely 300 annually.[114]
During the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the empire was indebted and the community provided significant financial support to preserve the empire.[117] The members of the movement who are now Muhajirs and West Punjabis granted the money to preserve the Ottoman Empire but were unable to prevent its decline; it was the biggest political eminence in pre-Muhajir history.[118][119]
The Pakistan movement, to constitute a separate state comprising the Muslim-majority provinces, was supported by the Urdu-speaking Muslim elite and many notables of the Aligarh Movement.[120][121] It was initiated in the 19th century when Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the grandson of the Khwaja Fakhruddin, the Vizier of Akbar Shah II,[122] expounded the cause of Muslim autonomy in Aligarh.[123] In its early years, Muslim nobles such as nawabs (aristocrats and landed gentry) supported the idea, but as the idea spread, it gained great support amongst the Muslim population and in particular the rising middle and upper classes.[124]
The Muslims launched the movement under the banner of the All India Muslim League and Delhi was its main centre. The headquarters of the All India Muslim League (the founding party of Pakistan) was based, since its creation in 1906, in Dhaka (present-day Bangladesh). The Muslim League won 90 percent of reserved Muslim seats in the 1946 elections and its demand for the creation of Pakistan received overwhelming popular support among Indian Muslims, especially in those provinces of British India such as U.P. where Muslims were a minority.[125][126][127]
1947–1958
The Muhajirs of Pakistan were largely settled in Sindh province, particularly in the province's capital, Karachi, where the Muhajirs were in a majority.[128] As a result of their domination of major Sindhi cities, there had been tensions between Muhajirs and the native Sindhis, and this has been a major factor in the shaping of Muhajir politics.[129] The Muhajirs, upon their arrival in Pakistan, soon joined the Punjabi-dominated ruling elite of the newborn country due to their high rates of education and urban background.[101] They possessed the required expertise for running Pakistan's nascent bureaucracy and economy.[130][128] Although the Muhajirs were, socially, urbane and liberal, they sided with the country's religious political parties such as Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUP) because of their non affiliation with any particular ethnic group.[131]
Upon arrival in Pakistan, the Muhajirs did not assert themselves as a separate ethnic identity, being multi-ethnic themselves, but were at the forefront of trying to construct an Islamic Pakistani identity.[132] Muhajirs dominated the bureaucracy of Sindh in the early years of the Pakistani state, largely due to their higher levels of educational attainment.[101] Prior to the partition, Hindus dominated the professions of lawyers, teachers, and tradesmen in Sindh and the vacancies they left behind were filled up by the Muhajirs.[94]
Many upper class Muhajirs people had higher education and civil service experience from working for the British Raj and Muslim princely states.[133][134] Out of the 101 Muslims in India's civil service, 95 chose to leave India.[135] A third of those civil servants were West Punjabis and there were as many Muhajirs as Punjabis.[94] From 1947 to 1958, the Urdu-speaking Muhajirs held more jobs in the Government of Pakistan than their proportion in the country's population (3.3%). In 1951, of the 95 senior civil services jobs, 33 were held by the Urdu-speaking Muhajirs and 40 by Punjabis.[136] The Muhajirs also had a strong hold over the economy, 36 of the 42 largest private companies belonged to Muhajirs, mainly those from the Indian state of Gujarat.[94]
Gradually, as education became more widespread, Sindhis and Pashtuns, as well as other ethnic groups, started to take their fair share of the pool in the bureaucracy.[137] But even by the early 1960s, 34.5 percent of Pakistan's civil servants were those who had not been born in the territory comprising Pakistan in 1947. Most of them were born in the United provinces.[94]
1958–1970
On 27 October 1958, General Ayub Khan staged a coup and imposed martial law across Pakistan.[138] By the time of Pakistan's first military regime (Ayub Khan, 1958), the Muhajirs had already begun to lose their influence in the ruling elite, especially after he changed the federal capital of Karachi to Islamabad.[98][139][140] Ayub slowly began to pull non-muhajirs into the mainstream areas of the economy and politics, coupled with completely ousting Muhajirs from the ruling elite.[141] This caused the Muhajirs' to agitate against the Ayub dictatorship from the early 1960s onwards.[141] The relation was further deteriorated when the quota system, revived and expanded by the 1962 constitution, increased the number of seats in professional colleges for students from backward areas which was anathema to the middle-class literate Muhajirs.[142]
The percentage of Muhajirs in the civil service declined while the percentage of others increased. In the presidential election of 1965, the Muslim League split into two factions: the Muslim League (Fatima Jinnah) supported Fatima Jinnah, the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, while the Convention Muslim League supported General Ayub Khan.[143] The Muhajirs at this time supported the Muslim League of Fatima Jinnah against Ayub Khan.[144] The rivalry reached a peak after the electoral fraud of the 1965 presidential election and a post-election triumphal march by Gohar Ayub Khan, the son of General Ayub Khan, set off ethnic clashes between Pashtuns and Muhajirs in Karachi on 4 January 1965.[141]
Four years later, on 24 March 1969, President Ayub Khan directed a letter to General Yahya Khan, inviting him to deal with the tense political situation in Pakistan.[145] On 26 March 1969, General Yahya appeared on national television and proclaimed martial law over the country.[146] Yahya subsequently abrogated the 1962 Constitution, dissolved parliament, and dismissed President Ayub's civilian officials.[147]
1970–1977
The 1970 Pakistani general election on 7 December 1970, saw the Awami League winning the elections.[148] The Muhajirs had voted for the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan,[136][149] this popular support for these parties resulted in ethnic muhajirs winning all six NA seats and 18 PA seats in Karachi and Hyderabad.[150] Muhajirs had decisively lost their place in the ruling elite, but they were still an economic force to be reckoned with (especially in urban Sindh).[128] When Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the country's head of state in December 1971, the Muhajirs feared that they would be further sidelined, this time by the economic and political resurgence of Sindhis under Bhutto.[128] From the 1970s and onwards, Bhutto implemented a series of policies in Sindh that the Urdu-speaking population viewed as an assault on their political and economic rights as well as cultural identity.[140]
The Pakistan People's Party government nationalized the financial industry, educational institutions, and industry.[151] The nationalization of Pakistan's educational institutions, financial institutions, and industry in 1972 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan People's Party impacted the Muhajirs hardest as their educational institutions, commerce, and industries were nationalized without any compensation.[152] Subsequently, the quota system introduced by Liaquat Ali Khan which allowed Muhajirs to take government jobs was reversed by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto preventing them from taking government jobs and other government institutions, by introducing urban rural quota divide in government job slots.[153] These policies also included the forceful retirement, dismissal or demotion of over 1,000 Urdu-speaking officers.[140]
In 1972, language riots broke out between Sindhis and Muhajirs after the passage of the "Teaching, Promotion, and use of Sindhi Language" bill in July 1972 by the Sindh Assembly; which declared Sindhi as the only official language of Sindh.[154] Due to the clashes, Prime Minister Bhutto compromised and announced that Urdu and Sindhi would both be official languages in Sindh.[155] The move had frustrated the Muhajirs as they did not speak the Sindhi language.[137]
After the 1988 General Elections, MQM, the largest Muhajir nationalist party to exist at the time (with more than 100,000 party workers),[167] emerged as the third-largest political party of Pakistan, in alliance with PPP.[168] Differences developed between the PPP and MQM after dozens were killed at an MQM congregation by Sindhi nationalists, and the alliance fell apart in the wake of ensuing violence.[169] The MQM lent its support to Nawaz Sharif's Islami Jamhoori Ittehad instead.[169] In June 1992, a massive ‘Operation Cleanup’ was launched to rid the city of terrorism but MQM was selectively targeted.[170] The Party's political offices were shut down as scores of its workers were killed in extra judicial murders and shootouts,[170] forcing to move its offices to London.[171] After the operation ended, MQM staged a comeback and a second crackdown against MQM was carried out during the tenure of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in which many associated with the party were killed.[172] After the military takeover in 1999 by Pervez Musharraf,[173] the MQM backed Pervez Musharraf strongly till his resignation in 2008.[174] Even after Musharraf's fall from power, MQM continued to dominate Muhajir politics until 2016 when it broke up into four factions and collapsed.[175]
2016–present
Amid a fractured MQM, the populist leader Imran Khan's PTI started to dominate Karachi's politics with a multiethnic support base from all walks of life, including the Muhajirs mainly from upper-middle and middle class, while lower-middle class Muhajirs turned to Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.[176] Despite tough opposition from PPP and TLP, PTI managed to bag the popular vote en masses during the 2018 Pakistani general elections, though with a lower voter turnout.[177] But in 2023, after the merger of the MQM factions, MQM staged a comeback into Muhajir politics. In 2023 Karachi local government elections MQM-P's boycott resulted in very low voter turnouts.[178]
Society
Economic status
A 2023 research conducted by Karachi University found that 9% of muhajirs were upper-class, while 17% were upper-middle class, 52% middle class, 13% lower middle and 9% lower class.[179] A 2019 study by Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center found that Muhajir women have the highest employment rate and monthly income among all major ethnic groups of Pakistan.[180] And according to the 1951 census of Pakistan, less than 15 per cent of Muhajirs were unskilled labourers, with almost 61 percent classified as skilled workers and more than 5 percent belonging to professional and managerial backgrounds.[181] By settlements, 68.4% Muhajirs lived in planned areas and 88.9% have access to basic utilities.[182] They have been very successful in finance institutions, and have founded most of Pakistan's banking institutions including State Bank of Pakistan,[183]Habib Bank Limited,[184]United Bank Limited,[185] and Bank AL Habib.[186]
In the ethnic groups of Pakistan, the lowest prevalence of metabolic syndrome was seen in Muhajirs (32.5%).[189] Muhajirs have a gene diversity of 0.6081, which is 0.001 less than the Pakistani average of 0.6091.[190] The overall prevalence of proteinuria in Muhajir children 3.6%.[191]
Muhajir culture is the culture that migrated mainly from North India after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 generally to Karachi. The Muhajir culture refers to the Pakistani variation of Indo-Islamic culture and part of the Culture of Karachi city in Pakistan.[192][193]
The traditional clothing of Muhajirs is the traditional clothing worn by Muslims in North India, and it has both Muslim and South Asian influences. Both Muslim men and women wear the shalwar kameez.[198] Men also wear the sherwani, and it is believed to have been introduced to Pakistan by Muhajirs.[199] Muhajir women (mainly from Northern India) wear sari,[200] which is an un-stitched stretch of woven fabric arranged over the body like a robe.[201] The Gharara was also worn by Muhajir women, which originated from the Nawabs' attempt to imitate the British evening gown.[202]
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Historic church in Maryland, United States Church in Maryland, United StatesBaltimore BasilicaBasilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MaryAmerica's First Cathedral[a]The Basilica in 2006Location409 Cathedral St.Baltimore, MarylandCountryUnited StatesDenominationRoman Catholic ChurchWebsiteamericasfirstcathedral.org[a]HistoryStatusCo-cathedral,Minor basilica,National shrine,Parish churchDedicationAssumption of the Blessed Virgin MaryConsecratedMa...
Tramway ligne 7 Le tramway à Orly Réseau Tramway d'Île-de-France Terminus Villejuif - Louis Aragon Athis-Mons - Porte de l'Essonne Communes desservies 9VillejuifL'Haÿ-les-RosesVitry-sur-SeineChevilly-LarueThiaisRungisOrlyParay-Vieille-PosteAthis-Mons Histoire Mise en service 16 novembre 2013 Exploitant RATP Infrastructure Conduite (système) Conducteur (Conduite à vue) Exploitation Matériel utilisé Citadis 302(19 rames au 16 novembre 2013) Dépôt d’attache Vitry-sur-Seine Points d...
Canadian provincial park Spray Valley Provincial ParkSpray Valley Provincial ParkLocation of Spray Valley Park in Kananaskis CountryLocationKananaskis, Alberta CanadaNearest cityCanmore, CalgaryCoordinates50°53′38″N 115°17′06″W / 50.89389°N 115.28500°W / 50.89389; -115.28500Area254 km2 (98 sq mi)EstablishedDecember 2000Governing bodyAlberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation,Kananaskis Country Campgrounds Spray Valley Provinc...
アブー・バクル・アル=バグダーディーأبو بكر البغدادي ISILの「カリフ」 2004年、米軍に拘束された際のバグダーディー在位 2014年6月29日 - 2019年10月26日戴冠式 2014年7月4日 イラク、モスル、ヌーリ・モスク[1]全名 一覧参照 إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي البدري السامرائيイブラーヒーム・アウワード・イブラーヒーム・アリー・アル=バドリー・ア...
German founder of psychology (1832–1920) Wilhelm WundtWilhelm Wundt in 1902BornWilhelm Maximilian Wundt(1832-08-16)16 August 1832Neckarau near Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German ConfederationDied31 August 1920(1920-08-31) (aged 88)Großbothen, Saxony, GermanyEducationUniversity of Heidelberg(MD, 1856)Known forExperimental psychologyCultural psychologyStructuralismApperceptionScientific careerFieldsExperimental psychology, Cultural psychology, philosophy, physiologyInstitutions...
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Province of the Anglican Communion in North and South Korea This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Anglican Church of Korea – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2006) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Anglican Church of KoreaThe Official Emblem of the Anglican C...
Danish jazz double-bassist This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Find sources: Mads Vinding – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template ...