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Friday, November 21, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s New York win revives a forgotten history — of Gujarati Muslim cosmopolitanism

From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.
Correction: Mamdani does not speak all the languages mentioned fluently. However, he has delivered speeches in Gujarati, Bengali, Arabic, Hindi, Luganda, and Spanish. Watch ThePrint ThinkingMedieval.