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The disputes amongst the Khojas regarding the payment of dues, the use of common property, the management of the community came under the jurisdiction of the civil courts. This treatment of Khojas under the civil court has two genealogies, (1) the conception of colonial religious groups and (2) the secularization of state rule. I shall discuss these briefly below and then we will go on to the manner in which the Ginan were employed in this discussion