The Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Project aims to preserve the heretofore unknown history of the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent. This portal attempts to estimate the number of casualties and refugees in order to answer the questio...
The Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Project aims to preserve the heretofore unknown history of the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent. This portal attempts to estimate the number of casualties and refugees in order to answer the question of our Mission. It is worth mentioning that the ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims, attack on places of worship (mandirs, churches, and temples), homes and livelihood, and confiscation of their homesteads through the Enemy Property Act by declaring non-Muslims as Enemies of State, continued unabated since the days of Noakhali Danga pogrom. Even during the rule of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1971-1975), known as the Father of the Bengali Nation, complete security for lives of minority populations did not return. Shiekh Mujibur Rahman compromised with intolerant, anti-secular groups by keeping the inhumane and unjust Enemy Property Act active with a different name — Vested Property Act, and by completely destroying the millennium-old Ramna Kali Mandir temple and adjoining Ma Anandamoyee Ashram which were demolished by Pakistan Army and her Bengali Islamist allies during the Bangladesh independence war.
In Bengal, as in much of the Indian Subcontinent, there is a taboo in discussing the plight of minorities and researching the whereabouts of the missing population of minorities. The ISPaD Project attempts to break that taboo and tries to estimate the status of minorities in Bangladesh – the East Bengal of the erstwhile Bengal Province of British-ruled-India AND to answer the all too frequently asked question: Where have my people gone?
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