Re: End of the past?
I think problem is with the lines that has been reproduced in various articles posted above. Heavy emphasis on distinguishing features between Muslims and non-Muslims are drawn on cultural and social aspects than economic problems in the syllabus. I do remember reading ‘deen alag dharam alag, rehna sehna, khana peena, pehnena oRhna sab alag tha’. They don’t talk about reasons behind economic backwardness of Muslims. Instead as reproduced in one of the article above, they said British didn’t want Muslims to flourish and they sent their valuable books to England making them backward 