Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz

Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz
AbbreviationPMM
Formation1998
FounderAli Anwar
TypeNGO
Legal statusActive
PurposeGiving SC status to all Dalit Muslims
HeadquartersNew Delhi
Region
India
President
Ali Anwar

Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz (Urdu: پسماندہ مسلم محاذ, lit.'Marginalised Muslim Front') is an Indian Muslim activist organization based in Patna, Bihar. Founded in 1998, it represents the concerns of the "Pasmanda" Muslims, a new identity that integrates the Dalit Muslims (Arzals) and backward-caste Muslims (Ajlafs). The organization represents the union of several Dalit and backward-caste Muslim organisations under the leadership of Ali Anwar, who is himself a backward-caste Muslim of the Ansari (weaver) caste.[1][2]

  1. ^ Yoginder Sikand, Voice of the Oppressed: Empowering Dalit Muslims, Communalism Combat, November 2005.
  2. ^ Ansari 2021, p. 86.