01-28-2006, 04:48 AM
yes and the solution isnt 5 kids per hindu family but to have a uniform civil code and prevent the camel jockeys from breeding like rabbits.
as for whay bengal was partioned - thats cos the english wanted to weaken the one province from which the real (ie. un gandhian) major anti-pom battle was waged.
as to how bengal became a muslim majority state - a combination of reasons. bengal basically had the brahmhinical storoghold of Gour and a lot of lower caste people (artisans, farmers, dhakai muslin silk weavers etc) - who converted to islam en-masse. the rest is the same old story of how islamics believed in having as many wives and kids (legit and ill-legit) as possible so that the dar-ul-harb would be over run by the children of islam. for a good account read the last chapter of Nirad C Choudhury's "the east is east and the west is west" where he talks about the hindu-muslim problem in india with a h-u-g-e list of references and allusions to prove his points.
as for whay bengal was partioned - thats cos the english wanted to weaken the one province from which the real (ie. un gandhian) major anti-pom battle was waged.
as to how bengal became a muslim majority state - a combination of reasons. bengal basically had the brahmhinical storoghold of Gour and a lot of lower caste people (artisans, farmers, dhakai muslin silk weavers etc) - who converted to islam en-masse. the rest is the same old story of how islamics believed in having as many wives and kids (legit and ill-legit) as possible so that the dar-ul-harb would be over run by the children of islam. for a good account read the last chapter of Nirad C Choudhury's "the east is east and the west is west" where he talks about the hindu-muslim problem in india with a h-u-g-e list of references and allusions to prove his points.