Editing Yogi (section)

====Resistance to persecution====
According to David Lorenzen, the religious groups in Hinduism that militarized and took up arms following the [[Muslim conquest of India]], to resist persecution, appeared among the Nath or Kanphata yogis, often called simply yogis or jogis.<ref>David Lorenzen (2006), ''Who Invented Hinduism?'', Yoda Press, {{ISBN|978-8190227261}}, pp. 51–63</ref>

The warrior [[ascetic]]s were institutionalized as a religious order by Gorakhnath and were expanding in the 13th century, after the establishment of the first Islamic Sultanate in India. They interacted and cooperated with ''[[fakir]]s'' of Sufi Muslims.<ref name="whitesyogi198">David Gordon White (2011), ''Sinister Yogis'', University of Chicago Press, {{ISBN|978-0226895147}}, pp. 198–207</ref> The yogis feature prominently in Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire period official documents, states David White, both in terms of impressing the ruling elite in the Muslim administration and awards of receiving land grants in some cases such as by [[Akbar]], as well as those yogis who targeted the elite merchants and disrupted the business of administrative Islamic elites in urban areas.<ref name="whitesyogi198" /><ref name="williampinchwarascetic">William Pinch (2012), ''Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires'', Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-1107406377}}, pp. 4–9, 28–34, 61–65, 150–151, 189–191, 194–207</ref> In other cases, yogis from the Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism traditions of Hinduism marshaled armed resistance against the Mughal and British colonial armies.<ref name="whitesyogi198" /><ref name="williampinchwarascetic" />