Authors: M.G. Vassanji
Select Glossary
Banya | a member of the traditional trading caste |
bhajan | devotional song |
bhakti | devotional worship |
Brahmin | a member of the traditional priestly caste |
dargah | a shrine where a holy man is buried and worshipped |
fakir | mendicant |
ginan | religious songs (bhajans) of the Khojas, and other sects |
kafir | heretic, in Islam |
khano | a Khoja prayer house and community centre (from |
Khoja | a Gujarati ethnic-religious group with elements of both Ismailism and Vaishnavism |
Kshatriya | a member of the traditional warrior caste |
mandir | temple |
masjid | mosque |
pir | a Muslim holy man or saint |
pavaya | a transvestite eunuch |
qadi | an Islamic judge |
qawali | a form of Urdu poetry, often devotional |
sadhu | an ascetic |
sepoy | private soldier |
Sufi | an Islamic mystic |
Vaishnavism | worship of the god Vishnu and his avatars, especially Rama and Krishna |
yogi | an Indian ascetic |
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