What makes you think that we oughta cherish a Brahman Raja dahir who usurped power from a Buddhist king and ruled the indeginous Sindhi Buddhist population with an iron first.
He might have ruled them with an iron fist, but he was no different from the Muslim invaders, who also ruled with iron fists.
Lil do you know that it was the high caste hindu dynasties who rampaged our Buddhists ancestors and forcefully converted them to Hinduism.
It was just an example.
Even though Raja Dahir forcefully converted your Buddhist ancestors to Hinduism, the same could also be said of Muhammad Bin Qasim and other Muslim invaders in what is now Pakistan.
You might say that Pakistanis became Muslim because of Sufi saints.
And that might be true for a large part, but you cannot deny that a number of Pakistanis became Muslims by force and that this was done by these Muslim invaders.
How do you know for sure that your Buddhist ancestors were forcefully converted by Hindus?
Maybe they became willingly Hindus?
And after they became Hindus (whether out of free will or by force) how do you know for sure that they became Muslims out of free will? They could also be forced to become Muslim by the invaders.
It could all be possible.
If you do not want to cherish Raja Dahir (and other Hindu dynasties) because of his (and their) forceful conversions of your Buddhist ancestors, you should also not cherish Muhammad Bin Qasim and every other Muslim invaders since they could also have been guilty of forceful conversions of the same ancestors.
So, they eventually found a way out in the form of Islam.
But if they were Buddhist in the first place, should they not have returned to Buddhism?
Would that not make more sense?
Else they'd still be facing the same fate like that of the low caste Dalits.
If they were Buddhist then they could not be seen as Hindus and also not be categorized in a specific caste.
Pakistan nowadays may not have the same caste system as in India, but there is still a type of social system, not based on religion but on descent and profession.
Read the following excerpts from an article:
'The landowners are followed by comparatively “lower” castes including lohar, tarkhan, mochi, mirasi who are then followed by chooray, chamar and masalis.
Keeping the lower castes aside, even the middle and the upper middle classes have divided themselves into a number of castes including Rajput, Syed, Dhillon, Butt, Bhattis, Jutt, Janjua, Siqqiquis and many more which cannot be mentioned because the list will never end.
“Lower castes” are referred to as Neech Zaat (low caste) and Badnasal (of bad lineage). In Balochistan the “lower castes” include Ghulams (slaves), Lohris (musicians), and Lachhis (Dalits).
In Sindh, “high-caste” Muslims, in addition to Shahs and Syeds, include the Akhunds, Effendis, Soomros, Talpurs, and Pirs.
Hajjams (barbers), Dhobis (washers), Kumbhars (potters), Maachis/ Mallahs(fisherfolk) and Bhajeer (Dalit converts to Islam) are considered “low caste”.'
'In places like Swat (the place where Malala Yousafzai comes from), the Quom system is comparative to the Hindu caste system. Here, groups are divided rigidly according to their occupation. Quoms do not intermarry or live together.'
'Each caste has this notion of being superior to another. Since caste has remained an important and key factor during matchmaking most of the Rajputs refuse to marry their kids outside of their castes, so do Syeds (who claim to be descendants of Mohammed), so do the Jutts and everybody for that matter.'
'However, most people in Pakistan would agree that caste, biradri, quom is a very important part of social identity, especially in rural areas.'
Are the contents of these excerpts true?
Does Pakistan have a biradri and / or quom system which results in social stratification and inequality?
Does Pakistan have a caste system based on descent, where, for example, a Muslim of Arab descent (Syed) ranks higher than a Dalit Hindu convert to Islam (Bhajeer)?
Because if so, becoming a Muslim (as a Dalit Hindu) will not increase their social status in Pakistan.
It will not empower them.
They will just become a 'Dalit Muslim' (Bhajeer).
So who was inhabiting that land prior to these Kashmiris? Must be some Bengalis or marathas?
