Comments on: How Islam came to India and why now it needs to go from India – 4 : Sufis http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-islam-came-to-india-and-why-now-it-needs-to-go-from-india-4-sufis/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Friend from Europe http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-islam-came-to-india-and-why-now-it-needs-to-go-from-india-4-sufis/#comment-1035 Friend from Europe Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:25:29 +0000 http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-1035 Thank you Dikgaj for you articles. It's very hard to even read it and I can't imagine how hard was it for you to write a study the sources. But your work is important and we must not give up telling the truth only because it is hard to tell a is hurting. Thank you Dikgaj for you articles. It’s very hard to even read it and I can’t imagine how hard was it for you to write a study the sources. But your work is important and we must not give up telling the truth only because it is hard to tell a is hurting.

]]> By: MA Khan http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-islam-came-to-india-and-why-now-it-needs-to-go-from-india-4-sufis/#comment-442 MA Khan Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:11:02 +0000 http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-442 Hi Dikgaj, Great work! Have you been planning to publish the work into a book. Pay a visit to my website, www.islam-watch.org Hi Dikgaj,

Great work!

Have you been planning to publish the work into a book.

Pay a visit to my website, http://www.islam-watch.org

]]> By: dikgaj http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-islam-came-to-india-and-why-now-it-needs-to-go-from-india-4-sufis/#comment-429 dikgaj Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:12:45 +0000 http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-429 My apology - I had thought of putting up a resource page of bibliography separately, but I have tried to give references or sources inline as much as possible. I will be coming to the "Partition" in my sequence on How Islam came to India. Even reading about it from outside, and after so many decades, I find it quite painful to read through the various data on atrocities compiled by a host of researchers. Typicaly this data is carefully suppressed in modern official historical representations. Historically speaking, my impression is that the Partition was not necessary, and reveals a gross lack of statemanship on the part of Indian leaders of the time. Indian leaders as well as the British are as responsible as the group that sponsored M.A.Jinnah. Data does not necessarily show actual support for Pakistan among the Muslims, as the electoral data typically quoted has to be qualified by the fact that this was not universal Muslim suffrage - voting rights under the Raj were formally qualified and restricted by various requirements like educational qualification, financial status, etc., and indirectly by the control exercised by the feudal Muslim chiefs in collaboration with theologians. There is concrete evidence of confusion over the nature of "partition" in the minds of the communities and that the religious leadership, especially that of the Muslims definitely carried out a double-speak on partition. This confusion was "deliberately" shared by the British with full knowledge of the entire British administration up to the highest level and possibly a section of the Congress leadership. There could be big-business and feudal interests involved in the transfer of populations without land, and deep political motivations to weaken the politically aggressive and anti-Nehru Punjabi Sikhs and Bengali Hindus. In the end, from a modern practical viewpoint, modernization of the entire Indian subcontinent under a common progressive system is not only necessary but a historical certainty - I will try to show why. My apology – I had thought of putting up a resource page of bibliography separately, but I have tried to give references or sources inline as much as possible. I will be coming to the “Partition” in my sequence on How Islam came to India. Even reading about it from outside, and after so many decades, I find it quite painful to read through the various data on atrocities compiled by a host of researchers. Typicaly this data is carefully suppressed in modern official historical representations. Historically speaking, my impression is that the Partition was not necessary, and reveals a gross lack of statemanship on the part of Indian leaders of the time. Indian leaders as well as the British are as responsible as the group that sponsored M.A.Jinnah. Data does not necessarily show actual support for Pakistan among the Muslims, as the electoral data typically quoted has to be qualified by the fact that this was not universal Muslim suffrage – voting rights under the Raj were formally qualified and restricted by various requirements like educational qualification, financial status, etc., and indirectly by the control exercised by the feudal Muslim chiefs in collaboration with theologians. There is concrete evidence of confusion over the nature of “partition” in the minds of the communities and that the religious leadership, especially that of the Muslims definitely carried out a double-speak on partition. This confusion was “deliberately” shared by the British with full knowledge of the entire British administration up to the highest level and possibly a section of the Congress leadership. There could be big-business and feudal interests involved in the transfer of populations without land, and deep political motivations to weaken the politically aggressive and anti-Nehru Punjabi Sikhs and Bengali Hindus. In the end, from a modern practical viewpoint, modernization of the entire Indian subcontinent under a common progressive system is not only necessary but a historical certainty – I will try to show why.

]]> By: Teresa http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-islam-came-to-india-and-why-now-it-needs-to-go-from-india-4-sufis/#comment-428 Teresa Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:08:32 +0000 http://dikgaj.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-428 Fascinating research... do you have a bibliography of resources - and what an undertaking - so good for an understanding of the development of the individual within the context of the development of the nation... both intertwined... at a time when the potential of India is on the brink of dioscovery having been held back for so, so long. One question - in this context, if Islam was not so welcome and not as peaceful as was believed or said to be - was then, the Partition of India, so sad and desperated a time for so many - was it then, perhaps, a good and needed division - at least in some respects? For many I have spoken to say it is a wound which could never be healed unless the division were reversed and 'India became whole once more'... Many many thanks... I shall be following and reading and learning with interest - Teresa Fascinating research… do you have a bibliography of resources – and what an undertaking – so good for an understanding of the development of the individual within the context of the development of the nation… both intertwined… at a time when the potential of India is on the brink of dioscovery having been held back for so, so long. One question – in this context, if Islam was not so welcome and not as peaceful as was believed or said to be – was then, the Partition of India, so sad and desperated a time for so many – was it then, perhaps, a good and needed division – at least in some respects? For many I have spoken to say it is a wound which could never be healed unless the division were reversed and ‘India became whole once more’…
Many many thanks… I shall be following and reading and learning with interest – Teresa

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