Muslim community of mysore city a sociocultural-anthropological study

Abstract

“The Internet as a meaningful phenomenon only exists on particular places” (Miller and Slater, 2000). In this chapter, the demographic and ethnographic properties of Muslim community in Mysore are discussed to illuminate the context in which the Internet has been studied in this ethnographic research. Spread of Islam in India has a long history; there are four major factors that have led to the expansion of Islam in India including 1) conquering India by Islamic forces and forceful conversion, 2) missionary activities of Muslims in India and peaceful conversions, 3) business and trade activities of Muslims in India and 4) immigrations of Muslims to India (Satyanarayana, 1993). Muslims ruled India for many year until 19th century when their political hegemony in India vanished by the colonial British forces with a population of 138,188,240 (2001 Census), Muslims are the largest minority population in India and comprise 13.43 % of the total population of population in India. Accordingly, India is the 2nd country in the world, in terms of Muslim population. Muslims live in most of areas in India; however some states have comparatively larger Muslim population.