No religion which voluntarily seeked followers gained numbers peacefully. Empires were built on corpses not on the promises of liberation. We can comfortably say if its not only force than coercion was used for conversion.
Our standard of beauty has mostly been reduced to fair skin. One of the colonial hangups. Yours is relatively new mix to the entire sub continet. I doubt if you compared it with people further down south in India you would be able to distinguish just on the looks.
Its a similar situation you described in Persia, only difference is that our pockets of resistance survived and managed to push back. You would have found yourself in similar tangle as we are had Persia managed to stop the onslaught
Yes there are mazhabi sikhs also ravidassia another sub sect from sikhs. Unfortunately for these people conversion didnt dont know about how they are treated being muslims but considering how desi are i can say its wont be much different. Caste/ biradrai is ingrained in our dna
Most of peasantry class converted due to sufis atleast in our part of punjab. Tellis, lohars, leelgars and people related to such jobs might have converted due to jizya if not anything else. Had conversion been a gate pass to escape caste system we wouldnt have a high percentage of SC/STs in...
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No matter how much you try to spin it, it won’t change the facts. Slogans raised by kashmiris are self evident what they wanted and how they wanted it.
And Kashmiris started their fight against oppression and foreign occupation by kicking out their fellow kashmiri brothers and sisters. I wonder how bhagat singh would have felt about this though.
Bending over is what IK and his government did infront of Khizvi. You cant handle rag tag mullahs on the street, why dont you learn a thing or two from India and use pellets on them?
They are busy killing, and numbers shows that its our righteous fight or why would local kashmiris would throw their “supposed” saviours in the line of fire?
Those who are picking up arms must learn lessons from the past, none of their heroes survived neither will they. And considering number of freedom fighters killed in recent years prove that locals are readily sharing whereabouts of these freedom fighters with the security forces.