Bengal’s Hindu Holocaust:
The Partition of India and Its Aftermath
Book Release Report By
Partition Center, NY
List of over 100 Hindu Priests, Devotees, Poor Residents Brutally Slaughtered by Pakistan Army at the Historic Ramna Kali Bari Temple in Dhaka on the Opening Hours of 1971 Genocide, Commission Head Dr. S. A. Malek
Bengal’s Hindu Holocaust: The Partition of India and Its Aftermath is am extremely painful documentation of world, Subcontinent, Bengal, Hindu and Islamic history. It is very painful because of censorship and amnesia of the victims and perpetrators, especially in the era of Black Lives Matter Movement, Remembrance of Holocaust, and witnessing the horrors of Russian destruction in Ukraine (2022). This is book on the loss of indigenous Hindu minority – missing from the Government Census, and killing through 1971 genocide of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, regular pogroms, and day-to-day devastation since partition of India in 1947 into India and Pakistan, and since 1971 into India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The book was released on August 9, 2021in the midst of Covid pandemic crisis. The release was organized by Garuda Prakashan publisher of Delhi, India. Speakers of the online forum were Hon, Tathagata Roy, a noted writer, historian and former governor of Indian states of Tripura, and Meghalaya, Dr. Rajat Mitra, a psychologist, historian, and author of books and speaker, Mr. Ankur Pathak, the moderator, and Dr. Sachi G. Dastidar, the author of the book. Some book reading forums were canceled because of Covid pandemic.
The title of the book was decided by a group of rights workers in India.
The book breaks a taboo in the Indian Subcontinent, and around the world of discussing about Britain’s racial/communal/religious Partition of India in 1947 on the basis of Two Nation Theory of Non-Muslim (Hindu majority) and Islamic (religious minority) identity, are two races. It resulted in religious fundamentalism and intolerance which drove out almost quarter of their population from Pakistan and Bangladesh, all indigenous peoples, in two of the most populous nations on earth. The book documents ethnic cleansing of indigenous Hindu minorities from the East Pakistan/Bangladesh from their homeland. It also reminds readers of the unwise discriminatory treatments of refugees of the east, i.e. Bengal Province, to partitioned India, and of refugees of the west, i.e. Punjab Province, to partitioned India. Both the provinces of colonial British India were partitioned.
Pakistan’s Genocide Began with Slaughter of Hindu Students at the Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University by the Army of Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Its Bengali Allies.
In addition to documentation of killing and cleansing, the book highlights, extreme hypocrisy and racism – in Indian Subcontinent it is referred as communalism – of the ruling elites of two eastern Indian Bengali-majority states of West Bengal and Tripura. Ruling elites were/are East Pakistani-Bangladeshi- Hindu-Refugee-Indians who chose not to live with their Muslim neighbors for Hindu-majority India, yet calling themselves atheists, and condemning Congress Party of India who fought and brought Indian independence, as well as denigrated Indian anti-colonial nationalists who fought for United India from the oppression of British colonial rulers. Elites did not criticize the Muslim League Party which demanded, and Britain awarded, Partition of India as “Muslims and non-Muslims are two different races.” British colonizers created the Muslim League Party in 1905 in Bengal to fight against Indian independence movement. Muslim League Party supported British colonizers.
A group of Hindu and Muslim Hosts Showing Visitors a Site near Durga Sagar Lake (on the background) where Hundreds of Poor Hindu Peasants Were Slaughtered in 1950s
Report of the first day Hazarat Bal genocide of 1,000+ Hindus killed, Washington Post, January 22, 1964
Loss of population in the book came from the official Census, and killing of minorities were documented from published sources – newspapers, journals, books, public records, and more.
For book release video, please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQKqsvVHlHg.
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This book is an updated edition of, Empire’s Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent’s Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities, published by Firma KLM Publishers, Kolkata; 2008.
https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2008/12/empires-last-casualty-indian.html
Bengal's Hindu Holocaust.....
Book Reading Organized by Bangla Abar or Bengal Again's
Srikanta Mookherjee at New Jersey Bharat Sevasram Hall
On Sunday, December 11, 2022
Mr. Mookherjee organized book reading of two books by Sachi G. Dastidar, and Kanchan Banerjee on his book, The Crash of Civilization, and philosophical, historical discussion by two other authors, Ramen Nandi on "What Happened to Hindu Temples," and Mahant Sri Ma Rajyalakshmi on Varanasi.
After the presentation there were long discussion and exchange of ideas between presenters and attendees.
It was wonderful to see a crowd of knowledgeable people attending the seminar, and discuss many philosophical ideas.
Here are a small sample of pictures from the event:
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