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{{Ethnic group|
| group = Molesalam Rajput
| population = 108,000<ref name="JP">{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Molesalam in India people group profile |url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/17643/IN |access-date=20 December 2023 |website=[[Joshua Project]]}}</ref>
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| popplace = India
| langs = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]<ref name="JP" />
| rels = [[Sunni Islam]]<ref name="JP" />}}

The '''Molesalam''' are a [[Muslim Rajput|Muslim Rajput (Muslim Indo-Aryan)]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Berger |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQF5-d9BMqcC&dq=Molesalam+are+a+Muslim+Rajput&pg=RA1-PA1961 |title=The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, Themes and Theory |last2=Heidemann |first2=Frank |date=2013-06-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-06118-1 |pages=1961 |language=en |quote=The dominant Rajput landowners ....which encompassed branches of both Hindu and Molesalam (Muslim) Rajputs.}}</ref> community found in the state of [[Gujarat]] in India. They also refer to themselves as '''Molesalam Thakur''' and sometimes '''Molesalam [[Girasia]]''' or मॉलेसलाम (Grasiya). There is some documentation of "nomadic Molesalam", but it is unclear from a single source of the relationship of this nomadic group with the "origin community".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bhakare |first=Shilpa |date=27 July 2020 |title=Nomadic Molesalams peddle traditional medicine despite challenges |url=https://www.villagesquare.in/nomadic-molesalams-peddle-traditional-medicine-despite-challenges/ |access-date=20 December 2023 |website=Village Square |publication-place=New Delhi, India}}</ref>

The Molesalam were targeted in an oppressive ''[[Shuddhi (Hinduism)|shuddhi]]'' ‘purification’ campaign launched by the [[Arya Samaj]] Hindu organization in 1908. In March 1926, the Molesalam held an anti-''shuddhi'' conference in [[Charotar]], led by a prominent leader of their community and member of the [[Bombay Legislative Assembly]], [[Sardar Naharsinhji Ishvarsinhji]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Virani |first=Shafique N. |author-link=Shafique Virani |year=2011 |title=Taqiyya and Identity in a South Asian Community |url=http://www.shafiquevirani.org/pdfs/Virani-Taqiyya_and_Identity-JAS.pdf |journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]] |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=99–139 |doi=10.1017/S0021911810002974 |s2cid=143431047}}</ref>{{Rp|page=114}}

[[Category:Muslim communities of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Rajput clans of Gujarat]]

==References==
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