Indian Scholar's Misconceived View:Struggle for Pakistan Poisoned Hindu-Muslim relations
Indian Scholar's Misconceived View:Struggle for Pakistan Poisoned Hindu-Muslim relations
Daily Star has reported that the struggle for creating Pakistan poisoned Hindu-Muslim relations in the subcontinent, Indian scholar Tapan Raychaudhuri said yesterday." said the emeritus fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. He was delivering the Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Memorial Lecture 2009 on 'Muslims and Hindus in British India' organised by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh under the auspices of Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Memorial Foundation at the National Museum in the city. Raychaudhuri, a scholar on Indian history and civilization, said, "In the pre-British days, there were no riots in the sub-continent for political reasons, but for socio-economic misunderstandings." "In pre-British times, there was no subcontinent-wide consciousness of a cohesive community, either among Hindus or among Muslims and that the two communities were political rivals was a consciousness very clearly traceable to the later half of the 19th century," he said. Jobs, education and distribution of seats in the legislatures -- in all such matters, the separate provisions for the two communities created an unhealthy basis for competition and conflict, he added. "The bitterness that the conflict produced still continues to vitiate our lives. In the 80s of the last century, the doctrine of Hindutwa emerged as a powerful force in Indian politics, partly drawing upon that inheritance of bitterness," he said..
To say the least, it is a one-sided interpretation of history.There was no riots in Mughal days show the magnanimity of Muslim Mughal rulers.There were very fer riots in Pakistan and Bangladesh .On the other hand there were scores of riots in India, in fact it is a regular phenomenon there.Why this is so is a matter of sociological and psychological study.
The Indian scholar has not spoken about why Muslims of the sub-continent and their leadership abandoned one India idea after an effort of forty years and went for seperate Muslim homeland. There are many books on this by even British and other foreign writers. Even recently Mr Jaswant Singh blamed Congress in this regard, not the Muslims or Mr.Jinnah in this regard.
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