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Sources indicate that the castes among Muslims developed as the result of close contact with Hindu culture and Hindu converts to Islam. Scholars such as Yoginder Sikand, have asserted that while the influence of Hindu social mores on the Muslims might explain the continued salience of caste among them. Once pure, radically egalitarian Muslim community in India later came under the baneful impact of Hinduism and Muslim castes were "entirely influenced by Hinduism".
Caste system among South Asian Muslims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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