ChennaiDude
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Great information- I had no idea.Fellow Indian forum members, you must have seen my writings on the Assamese muslims many times before, about how they are different from the rest.
They pray in our community prayer halls, revere and participate in our Hindu religious and cultural festivals.
There is a good reason for that, the muslims that came with Khilji and subsequently those captured from the Mughal army were geographically isolated from the rest of muslims in mainland India.
Having no access to their scriptures, they relied on the Hindu ones in NE and even considered Ram/Krishna as their Prophet.
It took a Muslim preacher from Baghdad to come to Assam and teach the nominal local muslims about the tenets of Islam. Prior to that even the call for prayer-azan, was unknown to the muslims here.
Point being the native Islam here is of a syncretic variety quite different from elsewhere, until the illegal Bangladeshis flooded NE with their fake Arabic culture.