The Molesalam are a Muslim Rajput community found in the state of

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in India. They also refer to themselves as Molesalam Thakur and sometimes Molesalam Girasia (Grasiya). The Molesalams were targeted in an oppressive ''shuddhi'' ‘purification’ campaign launched by the

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Hindu organization in 1908. In March of 1926, the Molesalams held an anti-''shuddhi'' conference in Charotar, led by a prominent leader of their community and member of the

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, Sardar Naharsinhji Ishvarsinhji. p. 114.

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{{Indian Muslim, state=collapsed Muslim communities of Gujarat Rajput clans of Gujarat