User:Assamese Muslims

Assamese Muslims is Assamese people but not tribal and they came to Assam in 17th century to Assam due to Ahom King Pratap Singha they also have there Own Gamusa . The color of Assam Goriya-Moriya,Deshi,Parishad Gamusa is Green and yellow line and they also call Assamese Muslims like Goriya-Moriya,Deshi,parishad. And there are not Muslims Bengal (Miya Muslims).there also Respect Assamese language. And they also have Assamese titles like Saikia, Hazarika, Bora. These are Assamese titles given to certain officials by the Ahom kings. These titles are not caste indicative and Ahom kings were quite secular in their approach. A Bora used to command 20 paiks, a Saikia 100, and a Hazarika 1000. A paik is an able bodied male citizen between 15 and 50 years of age.

Most of these Assamese muslims were converted to Islamic faith after the arrival of Azan peer, the famous Sufi saint of Assam.

There 4 religions Assamese Muslims are

GORIYA: “Whom we now call the Goriyas can trace their lineage back to the time of the 13th-century Ahom kings. Many came with Muslim armies and were captured in warfare. When they were released, they mingled with the mainstream society — so even today, most of their cultural traditions match Assamese customs,” said Azizul Rahman, general secretary of the All Assam Goriya-Moriya Deshi Parishad. In Edward Gait’s A History of Assam, Goriyas are described as hailing from Gaur, the ancient “Mahammadan capital” of Bengal.

MORIYA: “The Moriyas came later, around the 1500s. They were exceptionally good with crafts — especially bell metal,” said Rahman.

JULHA: Prof Saikia said Julha Muslims were “up-country” people (from Bihar and UP) who came to Assam along with the railway expansion during British rule. “When the trains came to Tinsukia and Lido, so did the Julha Muslims — they were of various professions: tent-makers, rope-makers, weavers, machine drillers,” she said. However, minister Dutta said the census will look only at those Julhas “who belong to the tea tribes and primarily reside in Golaghat and Jorhat”.

DESHI: While Goriyas, Moriyas and Julhas trace their roots to upper and middle Assam, the Deshis hail from lower Assam, in what used to be the undivided Goalpara district. Their ancestors are said to be converts from the Koch Rajbongshi kingdom in the early 13th century. “What we know is that a tribal chieftain called Ali Mech converted to Islam. His followers converted too. The Deshis speak the Deshi language, which is very similar to the Koch Rajbongshi language, and are approximately 20 lakh in population,” said Parveen Sultana, assistant professor at P B College, Dhubri.