Indian Muslims
INDIAN MUSLIMS - AN OPPRESSED MINORITY
By Abdul Haq
India has a unique experience of Muslim minority. A dominant minority in the medieval period became a dominated minority, all of a sudden with the advent of British rule in India. This sudden change resulted into complex problems. Partition of sub-continent in Aug 47 converted the Muslim community of India into Pakistani Muslims' and Indian Muslims'. This was a great shock as far as Indian Muslims are concerned. The rulers of Yesterday now had to live under the Hindu rule'. Fifty years having passed, the Muslims who opted to stay in India are still getting a raw deal in every sphere of life. They are still drowned in the scourge of poverty and backwardness. They continue fighting the ever-hunting spectra of communal riots and threats to their religious and cultural identity. The sense of insecurity experienced by the Indian Muslims in the post partition period has been compounded in recent years by the state repression and......
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