One Of A Kind: The distinctiveness of Indian Muslims is asserting itself again

One Of A Kind: The distinctiveness of Indian Muslims is asserting itself again

By Harbans Mukhia

20 Dec 2008

On the other hand, in the heartland of the Muslim empire Bihar, UP, Delhi, East Punjab for nearly six centuries the Muslims never exceeded around 15 per cent of the total population. Significantly, the massive conversions amounting to about a 50 per cent rise from about one in six to one in four of the population occurred between the second quarter of the 19th century and 1941, the last census before the partition, when the British ruled here. And overall, a fraction less than 25 per cent of the population had converted from the arrival of Islam in India to about the time of the partition.

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