Konkani Muslims

[2] The Konkani Muslim community forms a part of the larger Konkani-speaking demographic and are predominantly located in the Konkan division of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

There is a diaspora Konkani Muslim community based in Persian Gulf states,[4][5] the United Kingdom,[6][7] and South Africa.

[8][9] Some Konkani Muslims migrated to Pakistan during the Partition of India in 1947, and are presently settled in Karachi,[10] as part of the larger Muhajir community.

Konkani Muslims can trace their ancestry to traders from Hadhramaut (in Yemen or South Arabia),[11] the North of Indian (Haryana/Punjab) and other parts of Arabia and the Middle East,[12] who visited the Konkan coast between the seventh and eighth centuries AD and fled persecution in North India, during the rule of the Chalukya and Rashtrakuta dynasties.

[citation needed] In the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Konkani Muslims became influential sailors, merchants, and government employees as the port city of Bombay (present Mumbai) began developing.