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	\| popplace = {{flagcountry\|India}} • {{flagcountry\|Pakistan}} • {{flagcountry\|Saudi Arabia}} • {{flagcountry\|United Arab Emirates}} • {{flagcountry\|United States of America}} • {{flagcountry\|United Kingdom}}		\| popplace = {{flagcountry\|India}} • {{flagcountry\|Pakistan}} • {{flagcountry\|Saudi Arabia}} • {{flagcountry\|United Arab Emirates}} • {{flagcountry\|United States of America}} • {{flagcountry\|United Kingdom}}, {{flagcountry\|Canada}}
	\| languages = [[Urdu]] in the forms of [[Hyderabadi Urdu]] and the [[Dakhini]] sub-dialect as well as standard [[Urdu]]• [[Hindi language\|Hindi]] • [[Telugu language\|Telugu]] • [[Marathi language\|Marathi]]• [[Tamil language\|Tamil]]• [[Sindhi language\|Sindhi]] • [[English language\|English]] • The vernacular languages of other countries in the diaspora		\| languages = [[Urdu]] in the forms of [[Hyderabadi Urdu]] and the [[Dakhini]] sub-dialect as well as standard [[Urdu]]• [[Hindi language\|Hindi]] • [[Telugu language\|Telugu]] • [[Marathi language\|Marathi]]• [[Tamil language\|Tamil]]• [[Sindhi language\|Sindhi]] • [[English language\|English]] • The vernacular languages of other countries in the diaspora
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	The '''Deccanis''' (Urdu: دکنی) or '''Deccani People''' are an ethnoreligious community of Muslims who inhabit, or trace their ancestry from, the [[Deccan]] region of Southern and Central India, and speak [[~~Dakhini~~\|Deccani]], a distinct variety of [[Urdu]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.zanyoutbursts.com/2011/04/kya-ba-so-ba-ji-ji-learning-to-speak.html\|title=Kya ba so ba – Learning to speak south-indian urdu\|website=www.zanyoutbursts.com\|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref> The community traces its origins to the shifting of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]'s capital from [[Delhi]] to [[Daulatabad Fort\|Daulatabad]] in 1327 during the reign of [[Muhammad bin Tughluq]].<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Aggarwal\|first=Dr Malti Malik and Mala\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1FADAAAQBAJ&q=muhammad+bin+tughlaq+shifted+his+capital+from+delhi+to&pg=PA33\|title=Social Science\|publisher=New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd\|isbn=978-93-5199-083-3\|language=en}}</ref> The migration of [[Hindustani language\|Hindavi]]-speaking people to the Deccan, and the conversion of local Hindus to Islam, led to the creation of a new community of Urdu-speaking Muslims, known as the Deccani, who would come to play an important role in the politics of the Deccan.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Burton\|first=J.\|date=February 1968\|title=V. N. Misra and M. S. Mate Indian prehistory: 1964. (Deccan College Building Centenary and Silver Jubilee Series, No.32.) xxiii, 264 pp. Poona: Deccan college postgraduate and Research Institute, 1965. Rs.15.\|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00113035\|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies\|volume=31\|issue=1\|pages=162–164\|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00113035\|issn=0041-977X}}</ref> Their language, Deccani Urdu, emerged as a language of linguistic prestige and culture during the [[Bahmani Sultanate]], further evolving in the [[Deccan Sultanates]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Bahmani-sultanate\|title=Bahmani sultanate {{!}} historical Muslim state, India\|website=Encyclopædia Britannica\|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref>		The '''Deccanis''' (Urdu: دکنی) or '''Deccani People''' are an ethnoreligious community of Muslims who inhabit, or trace their ancestry from, the [[Deccan]] region of Southern and Central India, and speak [[Deccani language\|Deccani]], a distinct variety of [[Urdu]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.zanyoutbursts.com/2011/04/kya-ba-so-ba-ji-ji-learning-to-speak.html\|title=Kya ba so ba – Learning to speak south-indian urdu\|website=www.zanyoutbursts.com\|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref> The community traces its origins to the shifting of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]'s capital from [[Delhi]] to [[Daulatabad Fort\|Daulatabad]] in 1327 during the reign of [[Muhammad bin Tughluq]].<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Aggarwal\|first=Dr Malti Malik and Mala\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1FADAAAQBAJ&q=muhammad+bin+tughlaq+shifted+his+capital+from+delhi+to&pg=PA33\|title=Social Science\|publisher=New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd\|isbn=978-93-5199-083-3\|language=en}}</ref> The migration of [[Hindustani language\|Hindavi]]-speaking people to the Deccan, and the conversion of local Hindus to Islam, led to the creation of a new community of Urdu-speaking Muslims, known as the Deccani, who would come to play an important role in the politics of the Deccan.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Burton\|first=J.\|date=February 1968\|title=V. N. Misra and M. S. Mate Indian prehistory: 1964. (Deccan College Building Centenary and Silver Jubilee Series, No.32.) xxiii, 264 pp. Poona: Deccan college postgraduate and Research Institute, 1965. Rs.15.\|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00113035\|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies\|volume=31\|issue=1\|pages=162–164\|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00113035\|issn=0041-977X}}</ref> Their language, Deccani Urdu, emerged as a language of linguistic prestige and culture during the [[Bahmani Sultanate]], further evolving in the [[Deccan sultanates\|Deccan Sultanates]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Bahmani-sultanate\|title=Bahmani sultanate {{!}} historical Muslim state, India\|website=Encyclopædia Britannica\|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref>

	Following the demise of the Bahmanis, the [[Deccan ~~Sultanates~~\|Deccan Sultanate]] period marked a golden age for Deccani culture, notably in the [[Deccan painting\|arts]], [[Deccani language\|language]], and [[Monuments and Forts of the Deccan ~~Sultanate~~\|architecture]].<ref name="metmuseum">{{cite web\|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2015/sultans-of-deccan-india\|title=Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art\|publisher=metmuseum.org\|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref> The Deccani people form the second largest ethnic group in the states of [[Telangana]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], and [[Karnataka]], and ~~make up a majority~~ in the cities of Hyderabad and Aurangabad.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2019-09-02\|title=Urdu is the 2nd most spoken language in 5 states\|url=https://www.siasat.com/urdu-2nd-most-spoken-language-5-states-1604362/\|access-date=2021-03-04\|website=The Siasat Daily\|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last1=Eaton\|first1=Richard Maxwell\|title=Sufis of Bijapur, 1300 - 1700 : social roles of Sufis in medieval India\|date=1996\|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publ.\|location=New Delhi\|isbn=978-8121507400\|page=41\|edition=2nd\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2F9BgAAQBAJ&q=arab+deccan&pg=PA56\|access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> After the [[Partition of India\|partition of British India]] and the [[annexation of Hyderabad]], large diaspora communities formed outside the Deccan, especially in [[Pakistan]], where they make up a significant portion of the Urdu speaking minority, the [[~~Muhajirs (Pakistan)~~\|Muhajirs]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQCvgavbQjgC\|title=Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad\|last=Leonard\|first=Karen Isaksen\|date=2007-01-01\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|isbn=9780804754422\|language=en}}</ref>		Following the demise of the Bahmanis, the [[Deccan sultanates\|Deccan Sultanate]] period marked a golden age for Deccani culture, notably in the [[Deccan painting\|arts]], [[Deccani language\|language]], and [[Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanates\|architecture]].<ref name="metmuseum">{{cite web\|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2015/sultans-of-deccan-india\|title=Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art\|publisher=metmuseum.org\|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref> The Deccani people form the second largest ethnic group in the [[Deccan]] states of [[Telangana]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], and [[Karnataka]], and in the cities of Hyderabad and Aurangabad.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2019-09-02\|title=Urdu is the 2nd most spoken language in 5 states\|url=https://www.siasat.com/urdu-2nd-most-spoken-language-5-states-1604362/\|access-date=2021-03-04\|website=The Siasat Daily\|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last1=Eaton\|first1=Richard Maxwell\|title=Sufis of Bijapur, 1300 - 1700 : social roles of Sufis in medieval India\|date=1996\|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publ.\|location=New Delhi\|isbn=978-8121507400\|page=41\|edition=2nd\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2F9BgAAQBAJ&q=arab+deccan&pg=PA56\|access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> After the [[Partition of India\|partition of British India]] and the [[annexation of Hyderabad]], large diaspora communities formed outside the Deccan, especially in [[Pakistan]], where they make up a significant portion of the Urdu speaking minority, the [[Muhajir people\|Muhajirs]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQCvgavbQjgC\|title=Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad\|last=Leonard\|first=Karen Isaksen\|date=2007-01-01\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|isbn=9780804754422\|language=en}}</ref>

	The Deccani People are further divided into various groups, most notably the [[Hyderabadi Muslims\|Hyderabadis]] (from [[Hyderabad State\|Hyderabad Deccan]]), Mysoris (from [[Mysore State\|Mysore state]]), and Madrasis (from [[Madras State\|Madras state]]). Deccani Urdu is the mother-tongue of most Muslims in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Northern Kerala and Tamil Nadu.		The Deccani People are further divided into various groups, most notably the [[Hyderabadi Muslims\|Hyderabadis]] (from [[Hyderabad State\|Hyderabad Deccan]]), Mysoris (from [[Mysore State\|Mysore state]]), and Madrasis (from [[Madras State\|Madras state]]). Deccani Urdu is the mother-tongue of most Muslims in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Northern Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

	==History==		==History==
	The word ''Deccani'' ({{lang-fa\|دکنی}} from [[~~Sauraseni~~ Prakrit\|Prakrit]] ''dakkhin'' "south") was derived in the court of [[Bahmani]] rulers in 1487 AD during [[Mahmood Shah Bahmani II\|Sultan Mahmood Shah Bahmani II]].<ref>{{cite book\|title=Prince;Poet;Lover;Builder: Mohd. Quli Qutb Shah - The founder of Hyderabad\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4B_iDQAAQBAJ\|author=Narendra Luther\|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting\|year=1991\|isbn=9788123023151\|access-date=13 January 2020}}</ref>		The word ''Deccani'' ({{lang-fa\|دکنی}} from [[Shauraseni Prakrit\|Prakrit]] ''dakkhin'' "south") was derived in the court of [[Bahmani Sultanate\|Bahmani]] rulers in 1487 AD during [[Mahmood Shah Bahmani II\|Sultan Mahmood Shah Bahmani II]].<ref>{{cite book\|title=Prince;Poet;Lover;Builder: Mohd. Quli Qutb Shah - The founder of Hyderabad\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4B_iDQAAQBAJ\|author=Narendra Luther\|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting\|year=1991\|isbn=9788123023151\|access-date=13 January 2020}}</ref>

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	*[[South Asian ethnic groups]]		*[[South Asian ethnic groups]]
	*[[Dakhini]]		*[[Deccani language\|Dakhini]]
	*[[Hyderabadi Muslims]]		*[[Hyderabadi Muslims]]
	*[[Andhra Muslims]]		*[[Andhra Muslims]]

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{{short description|Ethno geographical community}}
{{infobox ethnic group
| group = Deccani
| native_name = دکنی
| image = <gallery mode=>
File:Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah portrait.JPG|[[Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah]]
File:Chandbibi1800.jpg|[[Chand Bibi]]
</gallery>
| population = {{sigfig|23,066,392|2}} <ref>http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/c-01.html</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.languageinindia.com/april2003/urduinap.html |title=Urdu in Andhra Pradesh |publisher=Language in India |first=A.R. |last=Fatihi |access-date=22 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713110121/http://www.languageinindia.com/april2003/urduinap.html |archive-date=13 July 2015 }}</ref>
| popplace = {{flagcountry|India}} • {{flagcountry|Pakistan}} • {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} • {{flagcountry|United Arab Emirates}} • {{flagcountry|United States of America}} • {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}
| languages = [[Urdu]] in the forms of [[Hyderabadi Urdu]] and the [[Dakhini]] sub-dialect as well as standard [[Urdu]]• [[Hindi language|Hindi]] • [[Telugu language|Telugu]] • [[Marathi language|Marathi]]• [[Tamil language|Tamil]]• [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] • [[English language|English]] • The vernacular languages of other countries in the diaspora
| rels = •[[Islam]]
• Majority [[Sufi]] [[Sunni]]
• Minority [[Shia]] and [[Isma'ilism]]
| related = • [[Tamil Muslims]] • [[Andhra Muslims]] • [[Marathi Muslims]] • [[Hyderabadi Muslims]] • [[Muhajir people]] • Other [[Indian Muslim]] communities
| native_name_lang =
}}

The '''Deccanis''' (Urdu: دکنی) or '''Deccani People''' are an ethnoreligious community of Muslims who inhabit, or trace their ancestry from, the [[Deccan]] region of Southern and Central India, and speak [[Dakhini|Deccani]], a distinct variety of [[Urdu]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zanyoutbursts.com/2011/04/kya-ba-so-ba-ji-ji-learning-to-speak.html|title=Kya ba so ba – Learning to speak south-indian urdu|website=www.zanyoutbursts.com|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref> The community traces its origins to the shifting of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]'s capital from [[Delhi]] to [[Daulatabad Fort|Daulatabad]] in 1327 during the reign of [[Muhammad bin Tughluq]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Aggarwal|first=Dr Malti Malik and Mala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1FADAAAQBAJ&q=muhammad+bin+tughlaq+shifted+his+capital+from+delhi+to&pg=PA33|title=Social Science|publisher=New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-5199-083-3|language=en}}</ref> The migration of [[Hindustani language|Hindavi]]-speaking people to the Deccan, and the conversion of local Hindus to Islam, led to the creation of a new community of Urdu-speaking Muslims, known as the Deccani, who would come to play an important role in the politics of the Deccan.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burton|first=J.|date=February 1968|title=V. N. Misra and M. S. Mate Indian prehistory: 1964. (Deccan College Building Centenary and Silver Jubilee Series, No.32.) xxiii, 264 pp. Poona: Deccan college postgraduate and Research Institute, 1965. Rs.15.|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00113035|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|volume=31|issue=1|pages=162–164|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00113035|issn=0041-977X}}</ref> Their language, Deccani Urdu, emerged as a language of linguistic prestige and culture during the [[Bahmani Sultanate]], further evolving in the [[Deccan Sultanates]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Bahmani-sultanate|title=Bahmani sultanate {{!}} historical Muslim state, India|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref>

Following the demise of the Bahmanis, the [[Deccan Sultanates|Deccan Sultanate]] period marked a golden age for Deccani culture, notably in the [[Deccan painting|arts]], [[Deccani language|language]], and [[Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate|architecture]].<ref name="metmuseum">{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2015/sultans-of-deccan-india|title=Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy | The Metropolitan Museum of Art|publisher=metmuseum.org|access-date=2016-03-18}}</ref> The Deccani people form the second largest ethnic group in the states of [[Telangana]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], and [[Karnataka]], and make up a majority in the cities of Hyderabad and Aurangabad.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-02|title=Urdu is the 2nd most spoken language in 5 states|url=https://www.siasat.com/urdu-2nd-most-spoken-language-5-states-1604362/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Siasat Daily|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Eaton|first1=Richard Maxwell|title=Sufis of Bijapur, 1300 - 1700 : social roles of Sufis in medieval India|date=1996|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publ.|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-8121507400|page=41|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2F9BgAAQBAJ&q=arab+deccan&pg=PA56|access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> After the [[Partition of India|partition of British India]] and the [[annexation of Hyderabad]], large diaspora communities formed outside the Deccan, especially in [[Pakistan]], where they make up a significant portion of the Urdu speaking minority, the [[Muhajirs (Pakistan)|Muhajirs]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQCvgavbQjgC|title=Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad|last=Leonard|first=Karen Isaksen|date=2007-01-01|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804754422|language=en}}</ref>

The Deccani People are further divided into various groups, most notably the [[Hyderabadi Muslims|Hyderabadis]] (from [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad Deccan]]), Mysoris (from [[Mysore State|Mysore state]]), and Madrasis (from [[Madras State|Madras state]]). Deccani Urdu is the mother-tongue of most Muslims in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Northern Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

==History==
The word ''Deccani'' ({{lang-fa|دکنی}} from [[Sauraseni Prakrit|Prakrit]] ''dakkhin'' "south") was derived in the court of [[Bahmani]] rulers in 1487 AD during [[Mahmood Shah Bahmani II|Sultan Mahmood Shah Bahmani II]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Prince;Poet;Lover;Builder: Mohd. Quli Qutb Shah - The founder of Hyderabad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4B_iDQAAQBAJ|author=Narendra Luther|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|year=1991|isbn=9788123023151|access-date=13 January 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[South Asian ethnic groups]]
*[[Dakhini]]
*[[Hyderabadi Muslims]]
*[[Andhra Muslims]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Muhajir communities]]
[[Category:Social groups of Andhra Pradesh]]