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Mohd Shakil Ahmed is the author of Essays in Sociology: Muslims in Manipur (New Delhi: The Institute of Objective Studies, forthcoming).
Ahmed: Understanding Muslim Social Arrangement This paper analyzes the Muslim Pangals (also known as Meitei Pangals or Pangan) living in Manipur, which is located in India’s extreme eastern flank that borders on largely Buddhist Myanmar/Burma.
Conversely, Indians belonging to the same religious group may come from different ethnic stocks, may speak the different languages, dress differently, eat different kinds of food in entirely different manners and may have com- pletely different social and economic concerns.
Kirti Singh observes: The songs sung by the young female folk in their daily contacts and con- versations and on the occasion of marriage and social gatherings contain- ing sentiment did not substantially differ from the songs of the Meiteis.
But as the Pangal com- munity was shaped with Islam as its religion and a social arrangement informed partly by that of the Meiteis, these categories were not taken into consideration.
Since these Muslims are arranged in terms of sageis, categories such as Syed, Sheikh, Mughal, and Pathan have never carried any meaning in the matter of marriage.
22 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 27:4 Manipuri Muslims outside Manipur Manipuri Muslims also live in other Indian states (e.
Ahmed: Understanding Muslim Social Arrangement 3.
Md. Abdul Khalique, “Manipuri Muslim (Meitei Pangal) in Bangladesh,” in Manipur: Past and Present, ed.