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Quote by Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
We are strangers in this land [of India]. Our fathers and grandfathers came to live here from abroad.
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The speaker describes their community as outsiders in India, even though they live there. Calling themselves “strangers” emphasizes that their roots lie elsewhere. They explain this identity through their family history: their fathers and grandfathers came from abroad to settle in the land.
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- “Arabic, the Arab Middle East, and the Definition of Muslim Identity in Twentieth-Century India”
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