Molesalam
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{{Ethnic group|
| group = Molesalam Rajput
| population = 108,000{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Molesalam in India people group profile |url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/17643/IN |access-date=20 December 2023 |website=Joshua Project}}
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| popplace = India
| langs = Gujarati
| rels = Sunni Islam
| related = {{hlist| Rajputs of Gujarat | Muslim Rajput| Malik | Miyana}}
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The Molesalam are a Muslim Rajput (Muslim Indo-Aryan){{Cite book |last1=Berger |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQF5-d9BMqcC&dq=Molesalam+are+a+Muslim+Rajput&pg=RA1-PA1961 |title=The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, Themes and Theory |last2=Heidemann |first2=Frank |date=2013-06-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-06118-1 |pages=1961 |language=en |quote=The dominant Rajput landowners ....which encompassed branches of both Hindu and Molesalam (Muslim) Rajputs.}} community found in the state of Gujarat in India. They also refer to themselves as Molesalam Thakur and sometimes Molesalam Girasia or मॉलेसलाम (Grasiya). There is some documentation of "nomadic Molesalam", but it is unclear from the single source of the relationship with the "origin community".
The Molesalam were targeted in an oppressive shuddhi ‘purification’ campaign launched by the Arya Samaj Hindu organization in 1908. In March of 1926, the Molesalam held an anti-shuddhi conference in Charotar, led by a prominent leader of their community and member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly, Sardar Naharsinhji Ishvarsinhji.{{Cite journal |last=Virani |first=Shafique N. |author-link=Shafique Virani |year=2011 |title=Taqiyya and Identity in a South Asian Community |url=http://www.shafiquevirani.org/pdfs/Virani-Taqiyya_and_Identity-JAS.pdf |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=99–139 |doi=10.1017/S0021911810002974 |s2cid=143431047}}{{Rp|page=114}}