Why Has India Not Learnt From Pakistan’s Mistake Of ‘Intolerance’?
The creation of Pakistan had two long-term religio-political consequences on Indian Muslims that were then divided between the independent states of India and Pakistan. In India, Muslims faced a political void due to the migration of almost all Muslim political leadership to Pakistan. While religion was used by the Muslim leadership, the Muslim masses on both sides of the border continued to adhere to their South Asian social identity and continued practising their cultural norms till around 1970s. In Pakistan, the promotion of Wahhabism and Arabisation of the South Asian cultural practices were started extensively under the state patronage of the military dictator Zia ul Haq. The supremacy of Arabian culture was denoted, and South Asian cultural practices were degraded as ‘Hindu customs’.
Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country
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