05-07-2006, 12:47 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+May 7 2006, 12:27 AM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ May 7 2006, 12:27 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->you could do well to explore the reason why this phenomena took place. ypung unmarried girls were at a risk, everywhere in muslim infested india. ending up with an old man was better than ending up in a harem. young girls were married off to young men if possible and if not, some elderly man was settled for, in preference to waiting to find out if (not when) some local muslim zamindaar set his lusty eyes on her.
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Post 1775, most zamindars in Bengal were hindus and most of them kept muslim concubines and produced muslim offspring, whereas in the same hindu zamindars house, there were plenty of unremarried young widows
Bengalis had the kulin system wherein hundreds of young girls were married off to a kulin
Even now in Varanasi, most of the hindu widows are bengalis
Bengali culture to a much greater extent than other hindu subcultures
created a large pool of non-breeding young widows and this helped muslims make bengal into a muslim majority province by 1881
While many hindu regions had the bad habit of non-remarrying their widows
bengal was unique in having a large portion of women married to old dying men, instantly creating a huge pool of non-breeding widows
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i'll talk to you on this AFTER you have read the said book (or at least the last chapter thereof)
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Post 1775, most zamindars in Bengal were hindus and most of them kept muslim concubines and produced muslim offspring, whereas in the same hindu zamindars house, there were plenty of unremarried young widows
Bengalis had the kulin system wherein hundreds of young girls were married off to a kulin
Even now in Varanasi, most of the hindu widows are bengalis
Bengali culture to a much greater extent than other hindu subcultures
created a large pool of non-breeding young widows and this helped muslims make bengal into a muslim majority province by 1881
While many hindu regions had the bad habit of non-remarrying their widows
bengal was unique in having a large portion of women married to old dying men, instantly creating a huge pool of non-breeding widows
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i'll talk to you on this AFTER you have read the said book (or at least the last chapter thereof)