Topic summary
Hasan Gangu
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah.
Ancestry and early life
Some later sources explicitly describe Hasan as a convert to Islam. Anna Suvorova, in Masnavi: A Study of Urdu Romance, describes Hasan Gangu as a “newly converted” Muslim in her discussion of the Bahmani tradition.Suvorova, Anna (2000). Masnavi: A Study of Urdu Romance. Oxford University Press. p. 3. Jayanta Gaḍakarī’s Hindu-Muslim Communalism: A Panchnama goes further and explicitly describes Hasan Gangu as a Brahmin who converted to Islam.Gaḍakarī, Jayanta (2000). Hindu-Muslim Communalism: A Panchnama. Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi Educational Trust. p. 140.