08-31-2007, 11:55 PM
Regarding Hyd, here is my take.( I am out of the City for the past 10 years but my entire family is in Hyd.) Note:I am only writing my observations. May not be accurate.
In the 70s Hyderabad and Secunderabad has fairly large number of Muslim population. If you take the entire population there were almost on the lines of 45% of the twin cities. However, in 60s as per my Dad Muslims used to be a majority. Most of the non-muslim population of this era is from entire India. No doubt that this city being the capital of AP there are many Andhraites(including a large section of Telanganaites as Hyd falls under Telangana geographically). There are many colonies like Sindhi colony full of Sindis. A very large section of Marwaris, Sikhs etc are also there. Largest non-Telugu populations is from Maharastra. Most of the Maharastrians here are of Nagapur origin.
In 80s and 90s, as is the case with any other state capital, this city started growing fast. In addtion, those days all the defence establishments used to be in the south. There are many central government agencies like NRSA, IDPL, NFC, ECIL, DRDO etc are established. This made Secunderabad part of the twin cities occupied by large scale governement employees and businesses grew around. Sametime Hyd expanded into districts like Rangareddy, Karimnagar and Medak due to BHEL, HAL etc. Jeedimetla has become small scale industrial complex. More people from other parts of AP moved in a rapid pace during this time.
Late 90s and 21st century is a different ball game. The spike of development in terms of infrastructure and IT parks etc is unprecedented. Couple of months back they combined many panchayats, municipalities into Greater Hyderabad. The area of Hyderabad currently is with a diameter of about 200km. The government claims that this is larger than Shanghai. (I have no statistics to prove/disprove). Population wise it is again with pan-Indian population from all states and sections. Telugu population also grew as is always the case. Now Hyd city encompasses portions of Hyd, Mahaboobnagar, Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Medak and Rangareddy districts. It is possible that Telangana region's GDP will be more due to Industries than Agriculture.
During all the time, Muslims remained static in terms of population with respect to other rapidly increasing demographies. Hyderabadi muslim is different from other parts of south and also North. Rich Muslims can be compared to rape class of TSP. They never consider themselves as Indians forever. MIM is this class. As in the case with TSP they kept the poorer sections to madrasas and jehadi culture for political purposes. To be fair to them there are many organizations that came among them to improve their social status. Due to their education, the Muslim population occupied low-skilled jobs in the city and most of the times their residences are always in the central Hyderabad also called as old city. That is why crap comes here and lives here.
Why riots are difficult in current Hyderabad?
The demographic shift is in such a shape that the newer sections of the city and also the Secunderabad part of the twin cities has muslims to the order of 15% or less. Large scale growth of other political parites and socially powerful groups in these aras will make Muslims very vulenarable in these areas of the city.
In late 80s and 90s during the riots in Old City, muslims in secunderabad used to take the brunt of rampaging hindu crowds. This is an unwritten balance and understanding in the city. Now the balance is further tilted and it will be the question of survival in case of riots for muslims. Hence it is very difficult (not completely ruled out) to start rioting.
In the 70s Hyderabad and Secunderabad has fairly large number of Muslim population. If you take the entire population there were almost on the lines of 45% of the twin cities. However, in 60s as per my Dad Muslims used to be a majority. Most of the non-muslim population of this era is from entire India. No doubt that this city being the capital of AP there are many Andhraites(including a large section of Telanganaites as Hyd falls under Telangana geographically). There are many colonies like Sindhi colony full of Sindis. A very large section of Marwaris, Sikhs etc are also there. Largest non-Telugu populations is from Maharastra. Most of the Maharastrians here are of Nagapur origin.
In 80s and 90s, as is the case with any other state capital, this city started growing fast. In addtion, those days all the defence establishments used to be in the south. There are many central government agencies like NRSA, IDPL, NFC, ECIL, DRDO etc are established. This made Secunderabad part of the twin cities occupied by large scale governement employees and businesses grew around. Sametime Hyd expanded into districts like Rangareddy, Karimnagar and Medak due to BHEL, HAL etc. Jeedimetla has become small scale industrial complex. More people from other parts of AP moved in a rapid pace during this time.
Late 90s and 21st century is a different ball game. The spike of development in terms of infrastructure and IT parks etc is unprecedented. Couple of months back they combined many panchayats, municipalities into Greater Hyderabad. The area of Hyderabad currently is with a diameter of about 200km. The government claims that this is larger than Shanghai. (I have no statistics to prove/disprove). Population wise it is again with pan-Indian population from all states and sections. Telugu population also grew as is always the case. Now Hyd city encompasses portions of Hyd, Mahaboobnagar, Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Medak and Rangareddy districts. It is possible that Telangana region's GDP will be more due to Industries than Agriculture.
During all the time, Muslims remained static in terms of population with respect to other rapidly increasing demographies. Hyderabadi muslim is different from other parts of south and also North. Rich Muslims can be compared to rape class of TSP. They never consider themselves as Indians forever. MIM is this class. As in the case with TSP they kept the poorer sections to madrasas and jehadi culture for political purposes. To be fair to them there are many organizations that came among them to improve their social status. Due to their education, the Muslim population occupied low-skilled jobs in the city and most of the times their residences are always in the central Hyderabad also called as old city. That is why crap comes here and lives here.
Why riots are difficult in current Hyderabad?
The demographic shift is in such a shape that the newer sections of the city and also the Secunderabad part of the twin cities has muslims to the order of 15% or less. Large scale growth of other political parites and socially powerful groups in these aras will make Muslims very vulenarable in these areas of the city.
In late 80s and 90s during the riots in Old City, muslims in secunderabad used to take the brunt of rampaging hindu crowds. This is an unwritten balance and understanding in the city. Now the balance is further tilted and it will be the question of survival in case of riots for muslims. Hence it is very difficult (not completely ruled out) to start rioting.