Hindu Bengal

How can all of Bengal remain Hindu? What will the effects be??
If during 1300-1700 the Eastern Bengal is controlled by Hindus, it would become solidly Hindus, I'm speaking 80+%.

Well the overall effects would stem more from the weaker Muslims in India than the demographics themselves, not sure what the effects would be for the East Indies, their islamization happened with the Bengal one.
 

Srihari14

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If during 1300-1700 the Eastern Bengal is controlled by Hindus, it would become solidly Hindus, I'm speaking 80+%.

Well the overall effects would stem more from the weaker Muslims in India than the demographics themselves, not sure what the effects would be for the East Indies, their islamization happened with the Bengal one.
With Bengal remaining Hindus, you are adding nearly over 200 million people more to Hinduism,
the other obvious effects would be Islam being weaker in eastern India, the Rohingya being Hindus and India being stronger
 
With Bengal remaining Hindus, you are adding nearly over 200 million people more to Hinduism,
the other obvious effects would be Islam being weaker in eastern India, the Rohingya being Hindus and India being stronger
Didn't the Rohingya originate during British Raj times? In any case I imagine the Bengalis under Buddhist control would end up as Buddhist.
 

longsword14

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What if the Deccan was as solidly Muslim as Bengal is OTL, in tandem with this POD?
Hard to see that. Cavalry armies invading India from the north went through the plains first, which ended somewhere around the periphery of Bengal. Any further conquest of the South would most likely be launched from a Muslim dominated North not vice-versa.
 
Didn't the Rohingya originate during British Raj times? In any case I imagine the Bengalis under Buddhist control would end up as Buddhist.
Yes and no. There are evidence of Muslim Bengali settlement in Northern Rakhine/Arakhan since the 14-15th century, but their numbers did increase during the Raj.
 
Didn't the Rohingya originate during British Raj times?
Most Rohingyas come from Bengali slaves captured by the seventeenth-century Theravada kingdom of Arakan.

E: Also, you should be a bit more careful about saying that. This inaccurate claim is how the Burmese regime is justifying an ongoing ethnic cleansing.
 
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Most Rohingyas come from Bengali slaves captured by the seventeenth-century Theravada kingdom of Arakan.

E: Also, you should be a bit more careful about saying that. This inaccurate claim is how the Burmese regime is justifying an ongoing ethnic cleansing.
Well I'm not sure how even if they came during Britisj Raj times it would justify anything, in any case from what I read the Muslim population almost tripled between 1870-1910 while the total population just almost doubled(and even there it was due to migration from other areas of Burma)

https://www.soas.ac.uk/sbbr/editions/file64388.pdf

The fact that there was migration from India to other British colonies is no propaganda point or conspiracy theory.
 
Hard to see that. Cavalry armies invading India from the north went through the plains first, which ended somewhere around the periphery of Bengal. Any further conquest of the South would most likely be launched from a Muslim dominated North not vice-versa.

I don't think so. Bengal's on the right side of the plains. I can easily imagine the Delhi Sultanate still having the capability of invading the Deccan if Bengal remains under a Hindu dynasty or revolts from the Delhi Sultanate (as a Hindu state). See the borders of the Delhi Sultanate under Tughluq:

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As you can see, it's not unfeasible that the bit around Orissa and Bengal breaks off, especially if Tughluq successfully moves the capital to Daulatabad.

As a matter of fact, I imagine the capital successfully being moved to Daulatabad and Bengal breaking off under a Hindu dynasty could be a way to get a mostly-Hindu Bengal and a mostly-Muslim Deccan region.
 

Srihari14

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Also with a Hindu Bengal, you result in a weaker or no Pakistan as many Pakistani intellectuals were from bengal, even Muslim league was formed in Bengal
 
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