Islam in India

tradition followed by religious beliefs. In my view India should have never separated if we as Indians came together and tackled the small issues we were dealing with before they got out of hand like they did. Most of us at the Honourable Assembly we fortunate enough to get educated…

a transformation- from Pooro to Hamida, from a simple, innocent girl to a matured, experienced woman who is bold enough to negate the hateful game of religion. Set against the background of religious and clan feuds on the eve of the partition of India, Pinjar aims at presenting the struggling miseries of the Indian women in the whirl of cultural and religious differences. Originally written in Punjabi by Amrita Pritam, recipient of Jnanpith Award, Sahitya Academi and Padma Shri, Pinjar or The…

CONGRESS RAJ 1937-39 INTRODUCTION: Sufficient time period of 27 a few several weeks from Come early July 1937 to Oct 1939, when The legislature ministries made the decision eight out of 11 Local Indian native places was essential for the Hindu-Muslim interaction and the future of the region. This treatment strategy of persecution was “Far more similar to the contingency Nazi program in European countries than to any kind of democracy.” PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS OF 1937 AND THEIR…

Islam has played an important role in the creation and continued survival of Pakistan as a sovereign state. As Pakistan started off, the use of the two-nation theory and a united Muslim front was a useful identity to an otherwise splintered nation, too similar to it’s much larger Hindu counterpart. As Pakistan grew from a theory into an actualized nation, it was proved that this wasn’t a solid foundation for a country as Bangladesh won independence, disregarding Muslim unity in exchange for…

Chapter 23 Margin Notes- Independence and Development in the Global South 1) What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? Europe’s African and Aisian empires were distinctive compared to other cases of imperial disintegration, because no other empire had been so centralized on the ideology of mobilization of masses. None of the other empires had been an excess of nation-states, each claiming an equal place in the…

South Asia, a non-speaking Arabic region, found multiple ways to make a general understanding of the Qur’an. You might wonder how, though. How can a non-speaking Arabic region compromise one-third of the world’s Muslim population? It’s clear that India had to have some minuscule translation of the Qur’an to accumulate so many Muslims, even if the “translation” was only a general understanding. One method that was used to translate the Qur’an was through the use of vernaculars. These vernaculars…

through centuries by the influence of different immigrant groups such as, Islam including (Sufism as a mystic variant of Islam), and Sikhism. India’s ability…

and truly wanted to see both Hindu, Muslims and other religions to flourish together in harmony, in the same environment. Octavio Paz tells us of how music was quite a large success in bringing the two religions together. He claims that the music of India greatly influenced southeast Asia and the Arab world. In order to bring peace and draw an alliance between Hindus and Muslims he married Jodhaa who was a Rajput Princess (This was more or less a political marriage). That being…

Chapter 7: The Caste System This system of dividing a society into different segments has been considered as the most negative aspect of Hinduism. When it comes to magnitude, the Hindu caste system has done greater damages to a greater number of people compared to the system of slavery implemented in Western countries or even the witch-hunting practices of ancient Europe. This system was invented by Vedic societies and supported by law makers. The people who belonged to the upper segments found…

known for the destruction of hundreds of Hindu temples across northern and central India. The rulers persecuted Hindus and promoted the forced conversion of the local population to Islam. This period saw the establishment of a Hindu Kingdom, Vijayanagar Empire, in south India in 1336 by two Hindu brothers, Harihar and Bukka. It was an attempt to protect the Hindu culture from the invading Muslim armies from north India. In 1398, the Delhi Sultanate was invaded by Timur the Lame, the founder of…