"The principle of ranking finds a vigorous application. Those who claim foreign ancestry are the aristocracy, the Ashraf. They have their own ranking: Sayyids, Sheikhs, Moghuls and Pathans. They are divided into subsidiary categories, generally all endogamous. The local converts constitute the plebeian class and are frankly called Ajlaf and Arzal, Arabic words which mean the wretched, the ignoble, the mean, the triflings. … They are further divided literally into hundreds of castes, most of them strictly endogamous."
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Ram Swarup: Woman in Islam. also quoted in Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001) by Koenraad Elst Ram Swarup: Woman in Islam, p. 11. also quoted in Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001) by Koenraad Elst
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