Colonial History of India

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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.

Whether the British wanted to weaken Bengal or not is immaterial here, the prime reason for partition again was the fact that Bengal was Muslim majority so naturally according to partition logic East Bengal went to Muslims.

sorry beg to differ.

bengal was partioned to weaken bengal so that the pom stay in india could be prolonged. lord curzon if i recall right, did it, when all other pom tactics to quieten bengal failed.

there were parts of india which were also muslim majority - say the gulbarga-bijapur rejoin of karnataka or the muzzafarabad region of bihar - the poms found no reason to carve up tose states along religious lines though.

when they - the poms - decided to weaken bengal by partioning it - they did it logically - gave the muslim majority part to muslims and hindu majority part to hindus - the added advantage (for poms) being that it would not just divide the province physically but along religious lines as well and the united opposition to poms would be weakened.

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.

Bengal may have had a brahminical stronghold or whatever stronghold but its an outright lie to claim that Bengal went to Muslim majority because of conversions, as late as 1800's Bengal was still Hindu majority, then Bengal came under British influence and Hindus caught the disease of family planning while the Muslims continued to have as many kids as they could and finally gained majority,
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yes thats 1800 - from 1800 to 1915ish is about 4 generations. muslims breed exponentially, in geometric progression.

i see nothing wrong in falling for the "western" (as you call it) disease of family planning.

small families are happy and prosperous families, anywhere in the world.

that muslims have as many kids as thay can is one of the major reasons that they are the poorest people in the world (aside of oil rich muslims), not the least in the poverty striken country of bangladesh.

brahminical stronghold = gour. all gsbs are brahmins identically.

india's BIGGEST problem today is our polulation.