milarly girls get married to boys resident all over the globe. Hence this phenomena means that the English spoken by the Bohras in Sri Lanka is constantly being influenced by different varieties of English from all parts of the globe. Migration and travel are key features of the community, which has to a large extent continued its basic fundamental practice of being a community involved in trade and business.History The Daudi Bohra community traces its history back to Persia when the first wave of Arabian Islamic conquerors invaded Persia. In the subsequent battles, the Persians lost to the Islamic princes, namely Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed. After this defeat Hussain married Princess Sherebanu of Persia. This was a tactic used to unite the warring factions and bring peace and reconciliation. The reason for the Islamic wars being not only the advance of their political and military rule but mainly the advancement of their new faith. Thus the Persians converted to Islam. These Persian Shias became the bulk of the Shia Muslim population that followed Hussain to Karbala [in modern day Iraq] and fought with him in the battle that led to his martyrdom along with the rest of the male population of his caravan. The only male to survive the massacre in Karbala was Hussains very ill son Ali Zain-ul-Abedeen who eventually took the caravan back to Medina in the UAE. After many changes of residence with the shifting of the caliphate of the Islamic State from Cairo the centre of the Daudi Bohra community became Yemen. This destination too was eventually made unsafe for the governance of the community. One of the mail reasons being on account of the political troubles due to the success of Turks in Aden (1537 AD)(Mulla Abdul Hussain, 1920: 43-4) Thus, the centre shifted to state of Gujarat in central India where the Moughal emperors proved kind and benevolent sanction. From here on the Daudi Bohra community slowly spread to other...
