Indo-Turkic people

The group of Turkic people who are of Indo-Aryan descent are commonly known as the Indo-Turks or Indo-Turkic. They are sometimes categorised as Romanis, but this claim is largely false. Many Indo-Turks live in Central Asia and Russia.

Not to be confused with Turks in India.
Indo-Turkic people
Languages
South Asian languages; historically various Turkic languages, Early Modern Persian
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples

Indian Subcontinent

The ancestors of the Indo-Turkic people, are Turks who migrated to South Asia at the time of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire and intermarried with Indians. The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi-based kingdoms two of which were of Turkic origin in medieval India namely the Mamluk dynasty (Delhi) and Tughlaq dynasty. Other Turkic dynasties which ruled in the subcontinent include Ghaznavids and the Mughal Empire. Southern India also saw Turkic origin dynasties like the Qutb Shahi dynasty. There is also a significant population of Indo-Turkic descendants known as Rowther, mostly found in Southern India.[1]

Ottoman Empire

They are also Indian nomads who went to Central Asia in the Middle Ages, where they intermingled with Turkmen, and settled finally in Anatolia Eyalet, the so called Teber/Abdal of Turkey, some went to Rumelia Eyalet and Crimean Khanate.[2]

Notable dynasties

See also

References
  1. Mohan, Anupama. (2012). Utopia and the village in South Asian literatures. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-230-35498-2. OCLC 785873604.
  2. {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355873685_Turcoman_Gypsies_in_the_Balkans_Just_a_Preferred_Identity_or_More
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