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With logic, and data from unimpeachable sources, former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi’s book debunks the myth around exaggerated fears of Indian Muslim numbers
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With logic, and data from unimpeachable sources, former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi’s book debunks the myth around exaggerated fears of Indian Muslim numbers
An impartial analysis of Islamophobia in India would reveal that what generated it was not Islam but a sense of political insecurity born out of exaggerated fears of Muslim numbers. These anxieties came to the fore in the early 1900s after the partition of Bengal, the passage of the Punjab Land Acquisition Act of 1900, and when the Indian Councils Act of 1909 introduced separate electorates for Muslims.
Mamata Banerjee tried to mitigate the impact of Muslim marginalisation but it was resisted by the BJP, resulting in the communalisation of political discourse.
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Many people do not know that the Assam Legislative Assembly is one of the oldest Legislative Assemblies of India, second only to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
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Many people do not know that the Assam Legislative Assembly is one of the oldest Legislative Assemblies of India, second only to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. It is important to remember that the proposal for establishing Legislative Assemblies for the provinces of British India was first mooted in 1932. It was however only in 1935, when the Government of India Act was passed by the British Parliament, that decks were cleared for setting up a bicameral Legislature in Assam comprising a Legislative Council and a Legislative Assembly. A general election was held across the country in February 1937 under provisions of the Government of India Act of 1935, and Legislative Assemblies were thus constituted in the provinces – Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Bombay,
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