<!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+Jun 9 2008, 12:07 AM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Jun 9 2008, 12:07 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->There was plenty of massacres in bengal
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Have you accounted for the massacres of Hindus in karNATaka, Andhra, and northern kerala? There is no comparision of that with bengal!!
Looks like you mean TN when you say south? If so, yes TN witnessed relatively less of gazi visits with exceptions of the eunuch general of khilji, and usurper of mysrore and his son tippoo. karNATaka has been a witness of widespread and recurring massacres, ever since the Khilji times, and later during Bahamani/Bijapur/Mughal control. For a historical account, read jadunath sarkar, and if you prefer a graphical account then read India - A Wounded Civilization by VS Naipaul. Also visit Hampi for a first hand experience. As for Kerala, the ongoing islamic aggression on Hindus must only be compared with that in Punjab. Right from the old days to Tippo's time till the Moplah rioting during last century. Add to this the christian aggression. Kerala Hindus are under much greater stress than anywhere else in India with exception of J&K. Gazi aggression in Andhra for last 700 years up until the time of tyrant Nizam and his razakaars - we all know enough about it.
Coming to bengal, within the first 20 years of Khilji coming to bengal, vast populatioin converted including the Hindu rulers and their elites. wandering sufi imposters along with the mere threat of the gazi was good enough, and actual masscare was not much deployed. (Same was consolidated by the later sultans and mughals). Get some glimpses of how easily without much sword-effort Bengal fell to gazi, by reading A History of Nawabs in Bengal by Jadunath Sarkar. Nirad C Chaudhury has also written in massive detail on this.
Now, I am not denying the massacres in Bengal, only comparing the scale of these with those in south.
<!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+Jun 9 2008, 12:07 AM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Jun 9 2008, 12:07 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->As far as assam and north east is concerned, they are only 5% of the Indian population
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So, it appears to me, you are applying the TN historical condition on rest of South India. And share of TN population in India would be comparable to that of NE.
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Have you accounted for the massacres of Hindus in karNATaka, Andhra, and northern kerala? There is no comparision of that with bengal!!
Looks like you mean TN when you say south? If so, yes TN witnessed relatively less of gazi visits with exceptions of the eunuch general of khilji, and usurper of mysrore and his son tippoo. karNATaka has been a witness of widespread and recurring massacres, ever since the Khilji times, and later during Bahamani/Bijapur/Mughal control. For a historical account, read jadunath sarkar, and if you prefer a graphical account then read India - A Wounded Civilization by VS Naipaul. Also visit Hampi for a first hand experience. As for Kerala, the ongoing islamic aggression on Hindus must only be compared with that in Punjab. Right from the old days to Tippo's time till the Moplah rioting during last century. Add to this the christian aggression. Kerala Hindus are under much greater stress than anywhere else in India with exception of J&K. Gazi aggression in Andhra for last 700 years up until the time of tyrant Nizam and his razakaars - we all know enough about it.
Coming to bengal, within the first 20 years of Khilji coming to bengal, vast populatioin converted including the Hindu rulers and their elites. wandering sufi imposters along with the mere threat of the gazi was good enough, and actual masscare was not much deployed. (Same was consolidated by the later sultans and mughals). Get some glimpses of how easily without much sword-effort Bengal fell to gazi, by reading A History of Nawabs in Bengal by Jadunath Sarkar. Nirad C Chaudhury has also written in massive detail on this.
Now, I am not denying the massacres in Bengal, only comparing the scale of these with those in south.
<!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+Jun 9 2008, 12:07 AM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Jun 9 2008, 12:07 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->As far as assam and north east is concerned, they are only 5% of the Indian population
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So, it appears to me, you are applying the TN historical condition on rest of South India. And share of TN population in India would be comparable to that of NE.