Where are they today in the land that was then east Bengal, which became East Pakistan in 1947, and then Bangladesh in 1971? According to an estimate from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, there were 17 mill
Most of Pakistan’s Hindu population fled to India as part of the population exchange that followed the 1947 partition. Those who remain live on the political and economic margins, and like other minorities they have endured discrimination at the hands of the Muslim majority. Article content “I...
” To illustrate this, HoC’s youth director Surya Naga shared a visual—“Land Loss of the Native Hindu Population”—that shows a map and timeline of Bangladesh spanning from 3000 BC to the present. Over the course of five thousand years, the map fades from a Hindu red to Islamic ...
Think of it: like whites in the US, Hindus in India are the (dwindling) majority to be figuratively shot down. They too, as inheritors of the Aryan Invaders, oppress the indigenous population. Their caste system, according to the Hindu-haters, is a racial Apartheid system: if we were rig...
or perhaps because of, headway in the FATA. And while the dominant ethnic group of the province is Baloch, there is still a sizable Pashtun population in northern Balochistan to blend into, including in and around Quetta. Balochistan also has its own border with Afghanistan that militants can ...
The way entire India is boiling over the derogatory remarks made by Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar on the Prophet, its spillover effect is also seen in Nepal when a considerable size of Muslim population residing in Birganj-a Nepali town bordering India in the South, came agains...
Nevertheless, in a country of more than 1.4 billion people, the Census is the only authentic source of population composition. Hindus are the significant majority in all Indian states except Jammu and Kashmir and in Punjab, where Muslims predominate14. It should be noted, however, that ...
“magically,” because psychologically, it hits close to home for many Hindu Indians. The mother complex can manifest as an individual psychological complex and a cultural archetype, seen in the wider population within the in-group, which then serves as a point of tension with the others in ...
After 2011 there’s been a steady deterioration of victories in elections. But the left base, that is to say, the population that voted for the left, remained near 30 percent of the voting public; 26 percent to 31 percent. This time that base, the communist base in West Bengal, ...
There are only two exceptions to the present Muslim hegemony: The Buddhist, or partly-Buddhist, population of Ladakh, at the eastern fringe of the region; and the tiny non-Muslim section of the Kalasha community residing in a few remote valleys in northern Pakistan’s Chitral district (Hee...