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Deities
Khwāja Bande Nawāz
Khwāja Bande Nawāz — Sufi saint of Gulbarga
Khwāja Bande Nawāz — Sufi saint of Gulbarga
Islamic / Sufi / Chishti
Khwāja Bande Nawāz (1321–1422 CE) — a disciple of the fourth Chishti master Nasīr-ud-Dīn Chirāgh-Dihlī — brought the Chishti order to the Deccan. His dargah at Gulbarga has been continuously-maintained for 600 years. The annual Urs (24 Rabi-ul-ākhir) is one of India's largest Sufi gatherings — 200,000+ pilgrims. The shrine preserves the tradition of Sufi music and poetry in Urdu, Farsi, and Dakhni (the Deccan Urdu dialect).
India's sacred landscape embraces all faith-traditions — Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Zoroastrian, tribal, regional-folk — each with its own cosmology. This entry honors Islamic on its own terms.
