11-27-2005, 08:50 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Nov 27 2005, 08:38 AM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Nov 27 2005, 08:38 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->people in bengal were not really OPRESSED by muslims, and so there was little resent. under the brits they bore the brunt and they thus led the resistance.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Cooking up excuses are we, this really is a something no one knows, it seems that Muslims had a special affinity for Bengalis to not persecute them while persecuting all others (atleast in your perculiar history they did, is that why Chaitanya had to run to Orissa from Bengal?).
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if you could make head or tail out of the iran example, i meant that those who fell without an initial war, were never opressed later.
bengal had the highest population of muslims before bengal was divided unequally (with 2/3rd of it going to the camel jockeys)....
the history of bengal proves that it was never a stronghold of ksatriyas (not being a frontier state).... but being very prosperous (at the time the muslims came) it had a lot of farmers, artisans, traders etc and a brahmin stronghold in gour (from where all the gaur-swaraswat brahmins emigrated southwestwards). the former (the non brahmins) converted to islam without much of a protest and that was that. no opression went on, like in the hindi heart land. also bengal doesnt have much of "holy" places like say a varanasi or an ujjain... so the savage attacks that north-northwest india got from the cameljockeys was spared to bengal.
Cooking up excuses are we, this really is a something no one knows, it seems that Muslims had a special affinity for Bengalis to not persecute them while persecuting all others (atleast in your perculiar history they did, is that why Chaitanya had to run to Orissa from Bengal?).
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if you could make head or tail out of the iran example, i meant that those who fell without an initial war, were never opressed later.
bengal had the highest population of muslims before bengal was divided unequally (with 2/3rd of it going to the camel jockeys)....
the history of bengal proves that it was never a stronghold of ksatriyas (not being a frontier state).... but being very prosperous (at the time the muslims came) it had a lot of farmers, artisans, traders etc and a brahmin stronghold in gour (from where all the gaur-swaraswat brahmins emigrated southwestwards). the former (the non brahmins) converted to islam without much of a protest and that was that. no opression went on, like in the hindi heart land. also bengal doesnt have much of "holy" places like say a varanasi or an ujjain... so the savage attacks that north-northwest india got from the cameljockeys was spared to bengal.