A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.70

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¹ Kubheer lived a Mahomedan; but when dead, the Hindoos claimed him as a Sadhoo. [Kabīr (Kubheer) was a Jolaha or Muhammadan weaver, born early in the fifteenth century, and a follower of Rāmānand, who lived in the previous century. He spent part of his life at Benares and died about 1518 in the Gorakhpur district. His teaching condemned the worship of idols and the institution of caste. His followers are known as Kabīrpanthis and are found chiefly in the Bulandshahr, Ghāzīpur and Aligarh districts of Northern India. (See Macnicol, Indian Theism, ix; V. A. Smith, O.H.I., pp. 260-1; Barth, Religions of India, pp. 238-40. See also The Bijak of Kabir, translated into English by the Rev. Ahmad Shah, Hamīrpur, 1917, the first chapter of which gives the legendary life of the poet.)]