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49 Million Hindus Missing From Bangladesh Census

Explosive Book by SUNY Professor Gives New Light to the Indian
Partition Story !!!

Empire's Last Casualty : Indian Subcontinent's Vanishing Hindu and
Other Minorities

A study of effects of religious communalism on a pluralistic,
tolerant, multi-religious society. It focuses on the loss of
indigenous, Hindu population from die land of their ancestors; and on
changes brought about since a multi-religious progressive region of
Colonial British India was partitioned in 1947, and its effects on
Hindu and nun-Muslim (Buddhist and Christian) minorities, on pluralism
and on indigenous cultures.

After Britain's Muslim-Hindu partition of Bengal Province Past Bengal
became Muslim-majority East Pakistan, a part of Islamic Republic of
Pakistan, unleashing regular, merciless anti-Hindu pogroms by
intolerant Islamists. West Bengal remained in India, with Muslim
minority and ever-growing massive Bengali Hindu refugee who turned
towards left extremism.

Following a 1971 war of independence against West Pakistan, Bangladesh
gained independence, creating the second largest Muslim-majority
nation. That war was concurrently anti-Hindu anti-Bengali genocide by
Islamic Republic's army and its Bengali and Urdu speaking Islamist
allies.

The book documents the decade-wise "missing" Hindus from Bangladesh
Census: over 49 million; larger than 163 of 189 nations listed in
World Bank's April 2003 World Development indicators database-and over
3.1 million (larger than 75 of 189 nations) Hindus lost their lives
through the process of Islamization.

Documenting three million-plus lost lives have been painful and
difficult; especially when Hindus cremate their dead. Additionally
rivers of the world's largest delta washed away signs of mass murder
leaving no clue. All attempts have been made to justify the data
presented in the book, hardly-known to the world and rarely discussed
in Bengal itself.

-----------About the Author

Dr. Sachi (Sabyasachi) Ghosh Dastidar is a Distinguished Service
Professor of the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He has
taught in the U.S., Kazakhstan and India. He has also worked in
Florida, Tennessee and West Bengal. Dastidar was an elected Board
Member of a New York City School district making him the first Bengali-
American to hold a popularly elected position in the U.S.

Sachi Dastidar has authored seven books, A Aamaar Desh, (1998),
Regional Disparities and Regional Development Planning of West Bengal
with Shefali S. Dastidar (1990), Central Asian Journal of Management,
Economics and Social Research (2000) and Living Among the Believers
(2006). He has written over 100 articles, short stories and
travelogues.

His awards include Senior Fulbright Award, Distinguished Service
Professor of the State University of New York, and honors from New
York City Comptroller, NYC Council Speaker, Residents of Mahilara,
Madaripur and Uzirpur, all of Bangladesh, Assam Buddhist Vihar, and
from Kazakhstan Institute. He has traveled to over 63 countries in all
seven continents including Antarctica.

Probini Foundation (www.prohini.urg) that his wife and he founded
helps educated the orphaned and the poor in 18 institutions in
Bangladesh, West Bengal and Assam.

Price:

$ 29 (U.S.)

ISBN: 81-7102-151-4

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