In "Discovery of India", Nehru wrote something like this:
South Indians are more gentlemanly, well behaved when compared with North Indians BECAUSE SOUTH INDIA SAW LESS DURATION OF MUSLIM RULE.
Even a Nehru understood that what long, oppressive Muslim rule made North Indians aggressive, rubble rouser because THEY HAD TO FIGHT FOR THIER EXISTANCE FOR 1000 YEARS WITH AGGRESSIVE MUSLIMS.
RE:Serial Thought writes >>HIndus are increasingly getting radicalised in India. They will lose their tolerance this way if killings or conversions of Hindus continue in India.
by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay on Apr 04, 2007 02:18 AM Permalink
Some prominent thinker termed this rise of rubble rouse Hindus as "Islamization of Hinduism".
I agree with that.
Because , people have seen what farce partition was. Whether Gandhi could save Hindus of Bangladesh/Pakistan. Or even of Kashmir.
RE:Serial Thought writes >>HIndus are increasingly getting radicalised in India. They will lose their tolerance this way if killings or conversions of Hindus continue in India.
by Tamil Arasan on Apr 04, 2007 04:48 AM Permalink
When you RSS guys hate Pandit Nehru so much why are you quoting him all the time. Is it because you secretly admire him?
RE:Serial Thought writes >>HIndus are increasingly getting radicalised in India. They will lose their tolerance this way if killings or conversions of Hindus continue in India.
by Minto on Apr 04, 2007 06:00 AM Permalink
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay feels that hindus are getting more radicalized. Samuel Huntington of clash of civilization fame had written in 1960s that India is a democracy not in spite of illiteracy but because of illiteracy. Adherence to secular principles has weakened since the days of Nehru. Nehru never cared about hinduism or religion. He was perhaps agnostic in his heart. He could dictate whatever he wanted to the ignorant mass. However as India progressed and literacy spread, people became very aware of their culture and religion. They asserted tehir identity, like it or not.
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by Minto on Apr 04, 2007 06:07 AM Permalink
Partition was the worst thing that happened to people of the subcontinent, this is especially for muslims. There are about 15 crore muslims in each of the three countries (BD, Pak, India). Dalits (Harijans/schedule caste) wanted to be counted seperately. This would have made muslims the largest group in undivided India. I wonder why Mr. Jinnah split the country.
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by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay on Apr 04, 2007 10:13 AM Permalink
Dalits were wiped out from Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Those who were left behind in East Pakistan were overhelmingly dalit/ Dalit Leader JN Mondal thought Jinnah will give rights to Dalits and went with him.
But even JN Mondal had to flee for his life from East Pakistan/
Read his resignation letter. He was minister in Pakistan:)-
