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In May 2003, a high court ruling in Bangladesh allowed ten Bihari refugees to obtain citizenship and voting rights. [63] The ruling exposed a generation gap among Biharis; younger Biharis tended to be "elated", but many older people felt "despair at the enthusiasm" of the younger generation and said their true home was in Pakistan. [ 64 ]
The first among them are Bihari Muslims. Although, most of this population belonged to the Bihar Province of British India, there are many from other Indian states such as West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and U.P. (United Provinces). [9] There are still others, who had settled in what is now known as Bangladesh in the late 19th century.
Bihari Muslims are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Biharis.They are geographically native to the region comprising the Bihar state of India, although there are significantly large communities of Bihari Muslims living elsewhere in the subcontinent due to the Partition of British India in 1947, which prompted the community to migrate en masse ...
[69] [180] [105] [75] Genocide is the term that is used to describe the event in almost every major publication and newspaper in Bangladesh; [181] [182] the term is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group" [183]
The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Sunday called for a fast-tracked third-country resettlement of Rohingya Muslims living in the south Asian ...
Bihari Muslims, Pakistani Army The Golahat massacre ( Bengali : গোলাহাট গণহত্যা ) was a massacre of 437 emigrating Hindu merchants and businessmen of Marwari ethnicity in Saidpur , East Pakistan on June 13, 1971.
When East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh in December 1971, 83,000 Biharis (58,000 former civil servants and military personnel) wanting to leave being ethnic Urdu-speakers, members of divided families and 25,000 hardship cases were evacuated to Pakistan. By 1974, 108,000 had been transferred to Pakistan (mainly by air); by ...
Bangladesh is the fourth-largest Muslim-populated country. Muslims are the predominant community of the country and they form the majority of the population in all eight divisions of Bangladesh. The overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi Muslims are Bengali Muslims at 98 percent, but a small segment about 2 percent of them are Bihari Muslims and ...