The devotional music of the Sufi tradition, especially the Chishti order, performed at dargahs to carry the listener toward the divine. A signature fruit of the Indo-Persian cultural meeting, it draws Hindu and Muslim audiences alike.

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• Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History →

  …-Persian world — a language that grew into Hindavi and then Urdu, the qawwali sung at the dargahs, a cuisine, a music, an architecture — though this shared culture always coexisted with real boundaries, and was…

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