They have always been connected with the textile work. There are total of 54278157 male persons and 49821295 females and a total number of children below 6 years in Bihar. They are one of the larger Muslim communities in Rajasthan, and re found in the districts of Tonk, Jaipur and Sawai Madhopur. The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India. R.B. Usmani got more than 65,000 votes (38%) but could not defeat the BJP candidate. It eventually joined the Progressive Democratic Alliance led by Rajesh Ranjan, the veteran politician better known as Pappu Yadav. This article offers a typology of the forms of political dynamics among Muslims in Bihar — the basic idea being that Muslim political dynamics are different in minority and majority areas. Owaisi explicitly states the need for ‘Muslim politics’, as for instance in this interview: “The realization among Bihar Muslims and everywhere is that we require an independent political voice.” This worked well this time in Seemanchal, where in 13 constituencies Muslims account for at least 40% of the population. Period of Fast Growth (1951-2001) The region of South Bihar recorded fast growth of population from 1951 to 2001, little less than three time from 29.0 million to 82.9 million. The Momin Ansari is mainly settled in Karachi and Hyderabad cities of the Sindh province. Asaduddin Owaisi with the newly elected AIMIM MLAs from Bihar | AIMIM (Facebook). The literal meaning of Ansar is "supporter". The money you spend at Ansari … Historically, each of the four sub-divisions would have had their own informal clan association, headed by a chaudhary. The AMP’s message is clear and simple: Ansaris represent 11% of Bihar’s population but there is neither an MLA nor an MP from the community. Google Map of Bihar. After the results, they were quick to point out the lack of caste diversity among Muslim candidates and elected MLAs. The lack of political representation of the marginalized among the Muslims persists in spite of the creation in 2019 of a new organization that aimed to solve this issue. Population in Bihar is more than eighty two millions. He was known for his commitment to national integration, secularism and communal harmony. They are among the more successful Muslim communities in the state, having made the transition from their traditional occupation to becoming successful businessmen. The Artisans of Benaras Popular Culture and Identity, 1880h-1986 Orient Longman, People of India Bihar Volume XVI Part One edited by S Gopal & Hetukar Jha pages 70 to 74 Seagull Books. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, many members of the Momin Ansari community migrated to Pakistan and settled mainly in the Sindh province. (estimated). They play active roles in all walks of life in Bihar. Ansari named Bihar screening committee chairman Avinash Pande, Bihar in-charge Shaktisinh Gohil and special poll emissary Randeep Surjewala for the election “mess”. The Congress seemed to pursue its long-term association with Muslim elites, by picking candidates who tend to be Ashraf, well-educated, with links with educational centres such as Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) or Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. In the Muslim majority areas, on the other hand, a space opens up for ‘Muslim politics’, that is, a political discourse that stresses the need for Muslims to be politically represented on their own terms and to voice community-specific concerns. Quite a few are now involved in tailoring and the manufacture of bidis, a local cigarette. Yet the comfortable margins the AIMIM achieved in the five constituencies it won — Amour, Kochadhaman, Jokihat, Baisi and Bahadurgunj — could hardly have been possible without candidates with political experience. Those Momin who have set up powerlooms tend to be more successful. Textile working was the traditional occupation of the Ansari, and at present those in Ahmadabad still engage in this activity. The Momin of Maharashtra are also known as Ansari or saudagar However, the question of polarization deserves more discussion. B. V. Bhanu, B. R. Bhatnagar, D. K. Bose, V. S. Kulkarni and J. Sreenath (editors), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Momin_Ansari&oldid=990343528, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 November 2020, at 02:23. The percentage of male population is 52.14% The percentage of female population is 47.86% Males: 54278157. The population of the Bihar … They are part of the South Asia Muslim - Ansari people cluster within the South Asian Peoples affinity bloc. In Baroda, they were invited by the ruling dynasty to help in the construction of public buildings from Rajasthan. In fact, he even nominated a woman of Ansari community as the candidate. In none of the constituencies where the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won and the MGB came in second place did the AIMIM obtain a vote share greater than the winning party’s margin. The Surjapuris — considered to be Shaikh and therefore part of the dominant Ashraf cluster — are in large numbers in Kishanganj district, while the marginalized Kulhaiya — who were included in the category of Extremely Backward Classes created by Nitish Kumar’s government in 2005 — constitute a significant group in Araria district. [4]:972–976, The Shaikh Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community, and are said to have immigrated from Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh some three hundred years ago. This shows that in most of Bihar, where on average Muslims make up about 17% of the population, candidates are unlikely to be elected with a rhetoric of ‘Muslim politics’, because they need to appeal to non-Muslim voters as well. In Wazirabad Toor is also a sub cast of Ansari. The surname originated from Ansar tribe, The Medinan People who helped the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, in his migration from Mecca to Medina. Most Surat and Ahmadabad Ansari are now employed in the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited clerk post, and local textile mills. Love Taboos: Controlling Hindu-Muslim Romances. Julien Levesque is a political sociologist who is currently Head Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, and is associated with the Centre for South Asian Studies, EHESS, Paris. They are also known as Deswali Shaikh, and speak the Madri dialect, which is a mixture of Urdu and Hindi. The JDU’s five Muslim MLAs in the previous assembly who contested this election also lost. B. K. Lavania, D. K. Samanta, S. K. Mandal & N. N. Vyas (eds.). They speak the Sadri dialect, which is distinctive to the community, although most have knowledge of Urdu. Last Updated: 18th November, 2020 15:26 IST Congress Stalwarts Lash Out; Furqan Ansari Says People Couldn't Comprehend Rahul Gandhi In another major setback for the Congress, senior leader Furqan Ansari blamed Rahul Gandhi for the party’s downfall in the recently concluded Bihar elections The Ansari have no traditional clan association, but are members of the All India Momin Conference. The AMP’s message is clear and simple: Ansaris represent 11% of Bihar’s population but there is neither an MLA nor an MP from the community. The Ansari are strictly endogamous and practice both parallel and cross cousin marriages. DEMOGRAPHY OF BIHAR: The literacy rate is 63.8%. Muslim voters identified the JDU not so much as a Bihar-based party that is able to deliver on governance, but as an alliance breaker and an ally of the BJP…. In Jharkhand, they are mainly found in Koderma, Hazaribagh, Gumla, Ranchi, Lohardaga and Singhbhum districts. The Momin of Maharashtra are also known as Ansari or saudagar They are descended from immigrants from North India. Many Momin are now successful entrepreneurs and professionals such as teachers, engineers and doctors. However, as much as it wants to claim representation for all Muslims, in Bihar the AIMIM is responsible for the victory of only five out of a total of 19 Muslims who were elected to the assembly (down from 24 in 2015). As the political campaign picked up momentum ahead of the 2020 Bihar elections, Pasmanda activists published online lists of the Muslim candidates that indicated their biradari. Our typology of political dynamics among Muslims is incomplete without mention of caste-based or identity politics. Bihar Election Result 2020: RJD's Javed Ansari ahead from Banka seat Counting of votes for 243 Bihar Assembly seats to begin at 8 am today Marvel unleashed! These orphans come from all over the Indian state of Bihar; many were given up by their families due to extreme financial poverty. The story of the Muslim vote in Bihar is not the triumph of the AIMIM, but the strong desire of the Muslim voter in both majority and minority areas across the state to express herself against the BJP and its allies. They are descended from immigrants from North India. It has an area of 94,163 sq. Asfi also happened to unseat his own son-in-law, four-time Congress MLA Tausif Alam. This people group is only found in India. As a result, the ruling coalition does not count a single Muslim MLA in its ranks. Many of them are engaged in zari work, which involves sari embroidery. This idea blames Owaisi for participating in Hindu-Muslim polarization on an equal footing with the BJP, supposedly contributing to bolstering politicians with majoritarian claims and side-lining the potential weight of Muslim voters. In spite of this poor performance, one might argue that being able to enter an alliance with a well-known personality, field several candidates from the community, and gain the following of several thousand people, was quite a step for a new initiative. They speak Gujarati with substantial Urdu loanwords. He is best known, today, for founding Wazirabad, a city near river Chenab in Punjab and building the famous Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore. Join Facebook to connect with Qyam Ansari Bihar and others you may know. [2]:984, The Ansari community is found throughout Bihar and Jharkhand. The AMP fielded five Ansari candidates in the elections, who received between 1,000 and 3,500 votes. In spite of the AIMIM’s past and the occasional radical actions of some of its members (Akbaruddin Owaisi’s Karimnagar speech of 2013 or the agitation against Taslima Nasreen in 2007), the party’s popularity and electoral successes in recent years do not rest on a radical discourse but operate within the framework of electoral democracy. They are mainly distributed in the cities of Ahmedabad, Surat, Bharuch, Baroda, and Rajpipla.[4]:69–73. This organization acts as a welfare organization, as well as lobbying on behalf of the community.[6]:1473–1478. (Shaikh alım ud-din Ansari),known as Nawab Wazir Khan was the governed of Lahore at the time of Mughal emperor Shah jahan. The role of ‘kingmaker’ that some analysts expected the party to play did not materialize — the AIMIM’s five seats were not enough to help the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) form a majority, were it indeed to join the alliance. Zainul Ansari, a robust man in his eighties, ... For the large Muslim population in Bihar today, an environment of fear, hate and stigma has been manufactured by the current coalition government. This is true even in constituencies where the Muslim population is above the state average, such as in Madhubani and Dharbhanga districts (where Muslims number more than 30% of the population in several constituencies). This shows that there is more to Muslim political participation in Bihar than the AIMIM’s breakthrough. The party successfully placed Muslim MLAs in five seats where previously a non-Muslim was the incumbent (three from the JDU, one BJP and one independent), and won one constituency from a JDU Muslim MLA. They are an endogamous community, only rarely marrying out of their group. The former MP said that the Congress scion had kept mostly MBA graduates to work in his office and act as his advisors, who have failed to give proper advice to him. In Bihar, they are found in all the districts. The Ansaris do not have any traditional social councils, but have an India-wide community organization, the All India Momin Conference. The AMP hoped to be able to negotiate for as many as 30 or 40 tickets, but its discussion with Congress and RJD fell short of its expectations. In the final outcome of the Bihar assembly elections, what drew attention to some of the successful Muslim candidates was the fact that the All India Muslim Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won five seats in the north-eastern Seemanchal region, where Muslims form about half of the population (from 77.5% in Jokihat to 38% in Araria). In terms of males, the literacy rate is 73% and 54% for females, recording a growth of 20% in female education over the time of 10 years. Bihar Rural Population 2011:-Of the total population of Bihar state, around 88.71 percent live in the villages of rural areas. One might indeed wonder whether the AIMIM’s Muslim politics pushed Hindu voters towards the NDA in the 20 constituencies where the AIMIM was contesting. This shows the limits of such caste-based organizations. The Ansari are Sunni, and have provided many of the Ulema in Rajasthan. The allegation, however, does not hold upon closer analysis. Km. The AIMIM’s entrance into Bihar politics may be an important step in the party’s expansion beyond its stronghold of Hyderabad. Bihar stands out as a bastion of caste-based mobilization by marginalized Muslim groups. Many members of the community have entered private or government service. The JDU’s Muslim candidates, whether in Seemanchal (Araria, Thakurganj, Kochadhaman, and Amour) or elsewhere (such as Sikta, Dharbhanga rural, and Marhaura, or Mahua), all came second or third. More recently, it is also in Bihar that such mobilization significantly re-emerged in a new form. Yet, even if a consolidation of the Hindu vote could be ascertained, the causality with the AIMIM’s politics remains unclear, as the BJP has gained new seats in area with little Muslim population as well. They are split into two … Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. [1] There are many people outside South Asia with the surname Ansari; however, this article is strictly about a Muslim South Asian community. However, the AIMIM’s MLAs represent less than a third of the 19 Muslims who were elected to the assembly this year. The former are found in Ahmadnagar, while the latter are found near Pune. They are strictly endogamous, and tend to marry close kin. The current literacy rate of BIHAR is about 63.82 % as per 2011 calculation. Population, decadal growth rate and net change of Bihar from 1901 to 2011. The AMP launched a ground-level campaign to build a base in central and western Bihar which led to a large gathering in Patna in December 2019, attended by about 3,000-4,000 people and by prominent figures of Pasmanda politics, such as Ali Anwar and Dr. Ayyub, the head of the Peace Party. Pasmanda politics has not so far proved itself to be an electoral force…the need to vote for a winning candidate against the NDA trumps any possible biradari affinity among Muslims. Yet in the 2000s, both Ali Anwar and Ejaz Ali accepted Rajya Sabha nominations by the JDU, which sought to pull Pasmanda support away from upper caste Muslim candidates fielded by the RJD and the Congress. It is also the World’s third most populous sub-national entity. Yet, interestingly, only two of the RJD’s eight Muslim MLAs elected in 2020 are incumbents, which means that the party also lost many constituencies with an incumbent Muslim MLA: eight such seats went to the NDA. This points to the fact that Muslim voters identified the JDU not so much as a Bihar-based party that is able to deliver on governance, but as an alliance breaker and an ally of the BJP. The Ansari are Sunni, and have provided many of the Ulema in Rajasthan.[5]:459–462. Their main occupation is weaving, and they use both hand-held and power looms. [T]he local standing of candidates was crucial for the AIMIM’s victories in Bihar. The Seeemanchal region of Bihar, which comprises Purnia, Katihar, Kishanganj and Araria districts, accounting for 24 assembly seats, holds the key to power, say Bihar watchers. Seats where Muslim JDU candidates had won in 2015 thanks to the RJD-JDU alliance now went to the MGB candidates (Sheohar, Sikta, Thakurganj) or the AIMIM (Jokihat, Kochadhaman). Yet accusations of the AIMIM being responsible for the MGB’s failure to win enough seats to form the government were repeatedly expressed. The AMP argues for self-representation in proportion to their population share, as indicated by the slogans “ apni qayadat, apni siyasat” (our leadership, our politics), “ jiski jitni abadi, utni hissedari ” (participation proportional to our population). They are dependent on the support of larger political organizations to enter the electoral contest, but are often too weak to weigh in on major parties’ arbitrations. District wise population of Bihar. The Congress still seeks to co-opt Muslim elites. population of the state increased by 9.74% in the following decades of 1931-41 and 1941-51 also population increased by only 12.22% and 10.58% respectively. The community speak Urdu, but the Momin are bilingual, speaking Marathi as well. The Momin Ansari (Urdu: مومن أنصاري‎) or saudagar are a Muslim community found mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. 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