Vested Property- the main causes for the losing Hindu land of Bangladesh
Chandan Sarkar
On the day of division of India and Pakistan in Mid August 1947, there were around 42 million populations of whom 29.5% were counted as to around 12.5 million minorities in the eastern part of Pakistan. Here Hindu are the majority with around 99% of the minorities and rest of them are Buddhists and Christians. However, a number of minorities in this part started to decline rapidly since then due to 2- nation theory. Because Pakistan was meant for Muslims, thus Minorities (mainly Hindus) had to leave this country. During the whole Pakistan period from 1947 to 1971, there was a tremendous migration of minority populations from Bangladesh to India.
There was a pause only upon the independence of Bangladesh from 1972 to mmid-1975while on the main pillars of state policy was secularism. The Migration process again got momentum due to thrown out of secular characteristics’ of the country after 1975. The table below showing percentage distribution of population by religious communities in Bangladesh depicts how minority populations declined here over the years.
