Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's views on the conversion of Hindus to Islam.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's views on the conversion of Hindus to Islam

“There was no social unity at that time. The rulers were Aryans - the people were non-Aryans. For the common people, the Muslims were inferior, and the Aryans were inferior. In this situation, the possibility that the non-Aryans would oppose the Muslims for the sake of the Aryans is small. Rather, the egalitarian Islam is more respectable to them than the discriminatory mythological religion -- they are hated by the Aryans as an inferior race --- they will not hate the Muslims as an inferior race. That is why after the Muslim conquest, half of the non-Aryan Hindus converted to Islam.”

—Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

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Source and context:

Bangadarshan. Ashwin issue of 1289. Article: Conquest of Bengal by Muslims/1