The Muslim in the district have come from all directions, some from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, some from Berar and the west, but probably the greatest number form the former Hyderabad state in the south. Only a few families can date their first settlement in the district as far back as the commencement of the 18the Century when the bulk of hen came during and after the Maratha occupation. Many of them can claim descent form officers in the old Bhosle and English armies, and some, though illegitimate, children from the old rajas and Maratha nobility. Like the Marathas many of them have lost their ancestral property and are found struggling to keep up appearance on an attenuated pension. But those less hampered by past dignity have been more successful, some taking to trade and others acquiring landed property and managing it well.

Though generally backward in education and easily spoilt by prosperity, Muslims as a class are more united than the Hindus. The better educated among them extend their efforts to improve the condition of their community even to the very poorest. A number of them are employed in the police and the army. And in the subordinate ranks of government service. The community includes a number of artisan castes. Principally Momins and Julahas who are weavers and Bhnias and Pinjaris who are cotton cleaners. The Momins belong chiefly to Kamptee and weave cloth on hand-loom and power loom. The Pinjaris have generally found their occupation gone with the establishment of ginning factories, and have taken to cultivation and petty trade. Others are kaceras, glass bangle-makers; Kunjaras, green grocers; Kasais, Butchers; and the Rangaris, a caste of dyers who once used to dye with safflower. The Bohara and khoja merchants who are also of the Sia sect and the Cutchis or Memans from Gujarat, who are also traders, are foreigners to the district. Many of them do not bring their wives with them, though by now they have begun to settle here. These Muslim groups are known as converts form Hinduism and are therefore, looked down upon by the proper or respectable Muslim groups are known as converts from Hinduism and are therefore, looked down upon by the proper or respectable Muslims such as Saikh. Sayyad, Moghal and pathan all of whom claim a foreign strain.