India’s East African communities

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From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, East Africans migrated to India. Today, they’re called Siddis. This is their story.

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One of the mose famous Siddis was a man named Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut. He was a slave turned nobleman in the Delhi Sultanate who was rumored to be the queens lover.

"Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut (also Jamaluddin Yakut) was an African Siddi slave-turned-nobleman who was a close confidante of Razia Sultana, the first female monarch of the Delhi Sultanate in India, and who is speculated to have been her lover. Razia Sultana's patronage made him an influential member of the court, provoking racial antagonism amongst the nobles and clergy, who were both primarily Turkish and already resentful of the rule of a female monarch."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal-ud-Din_Yaqut

 

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One of the mose famous Siddis was a man named Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut. He was a slave turned nobleman in the Delhi Sultanate who was rumored to be the queens lover.

"Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut (also Jamaluddin Yakut) was an African Siddi slave-turned-nobleman who was a close confidante of Razia Sultana, the first female monarch of the Delhi Sultanate in India, and who is speculated to have been her lover. Razia Sultana's patronage made him an influential member of the court, provoking racial antagonism amongst the nobles and clergy, who were both primarily Turkish and already resentful of the rule of a female monarch."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal-ud-Din_Yaqut

In short; Indian women have a soft spot for athletic blackmen who speak the language.