Nashik, (also Nasik), is a medium size, fast-growing city. The river Godavari flows through the city and the temples and steps on its banks make Nashik one of the holiest places for Hindus all over the World. But many Hindus readily converted to Islam.

The Muslims of Rajasthan are subdivided into a number of different groups relating to ancestry and even caste; like many other Muslims in South Asia, they have retained caste distinctions and occasionally even ceremonies from their Hindu forebears.