Sadler wrote:Had these hindus in the '50's been brought back into an eretz india, their progeny would still be alive and prosperous.
Sadler, what happened was that the migration of Hindus/Sikhs out of West Punjab happened in 1947 (Punjab there was a total exchange of populations). In East Bengal , that was a slow ongoing process and the 1970/71 events sent a huge surge across and the remnants in Bangladesh still continue to make their way across.
In Sind, it didn't happen right during 1947, but shortly after when the Mohajirs from India moved to Sind and the troubles for the Sindhi Hindus started and roughly 1 year later and after that the Hindu population moved to India.
Another thing to consider is that many of the Dalits in West Punjab converted to Christianity (the Aisia Bibis and the other Christians being harassed , murdered, raped etc and in Pakistan are all Dalits). That is the choice Dalits made to stay in Pakistan , because being Hindu there wasn't tenable. A poor choice I'd say , maybe they should have become Muslims. They are now being persecuted for being Christian. See despite all the protestations of equality and egalitarianism, nearly all Islamic societies, especially Pakistan is highly unequal and very tribal and your station of birth largely determines your life. Not much social mobility etc.
It is ironic that in India where despite the stereotypes, the caste strictures have loosened tremendously and "lower caste" /"dalit"/"disadvantaged background" because of democracy is a viable means of social empowerment and mobility, in Pakistan, the "caste" system morphed and merged perfectly into an Arabized tribalism into a pitiless social structure that is deeply oppressive and fundamentally cruel.
Think of this Aisia Bibi case. She fetched water from a well, some of her fellow laborers insulted her/humiliated her calling her "unclean" (was she "unclean" because she is Dalit or Chrisitian or both and the Muslims feel "cleaner") and the rest is history.. resulting in the death of Salmaan Taseer.
It is amazing how this works in Islamic societies. In Iran, the Zorastrians and Jews are "unclean" and socially segregated , barred for schools and public pools,societies etc, consigned to the margins doing absolutely menial and degrading jobs (like the Christian Dalits in Pakistan, largely consigned to manual scavenging of human waste).. for eg most of the waste cleaners /gargbage collectors/recyclers are Copts in Egyt. There was an entire NYT article on that when the Swine Flu hit egpyt and the effects on the copts when they ordered all their pigs to be killed.
Bad enough as it is, there is no social mobility possible for those minority groups because in Islamic states , that is forbidden for non muslims by religious law!.
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