{"id":9416,"date":"2022-10-18T02:38:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:41:42","slug":"pasmanda-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pasmanda-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasmanda Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pasmanda Muslims:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pasmanda is a Persian word that means the \u2018ones left behind\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The word is used to describe the depressed classes among Muslims who have been deliberately or consciously excluded from the fruits of power and privilege.<\/li>\n<li>Backward, Dalit, and tribal Muslims use the word Pasmanda as an umbrella identity to flag caste-based discrimination within the community.<\/li>\n<li>The term \u2018Pasmanda Muslims\u2019 was first used in 1998 by Ali Anwar Ansari when he founded the Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz.<\/li>\n<li>Muslim society in India consists of several status groups or biradaris that are broadly sorted in three categories: the Ashrafs (the \u2018noble\u2019 elite or the \u2018honourable ones\u2019), the Ajlafs (backward Muslims), and the Arzals (Dalit Muslims).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/how-to-understand-the-bjps-focus-on-pasmanda-muslims-8213374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasmanda word is used to describe the depressed classes among Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}