Most Persecuted Religions in History

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Re: Most Persecuted Religions in History

@calypsodc

What is to say that they did not ?
I had a friend form a different cultural community in college who would trace their ancestry back to Gandhara . They believe they migrated to other parts of India to escape persecution centuries ago. They add gandhara to their caste name. I am not sure how factual this is but it is a part of their community history. Maybe the kaur can shed some light on it since the migrants supposedly settled in the north.

What about the exodus of Hindus from Kashmir ? It is not a new phenomenon. These types of exodus existed where ever muslims formed a sizable majority .

Kashmiris first settled in Konkan regions along the coasts of Maharashtra, Karnataka and northern Kerala over centuries following the merciless killing of Kashmiri Pandits during the Shaikh, Shah, Mughal and Afghan era. There are a number of communities in Konkan region who consider themselves to be Kashmiri diaspora, including the Konkan Saraswat Brahmins, Goud Saraswat Brahmin and Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmins.
Kashmiri diaspora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Many hindus fled into neighbouring states during the Malbar rebellion when muslims rampaged upon their neighbours to support the Kilafat movement and declared that region as Khilafat kingdoms.
This is what the zamorin the ruler of Malabar had to say about it :
*“That the conference views with indignation and sorrow the attempts made at various quarters by interested parties to ignore or minimise the crimes committed by the rebels such as: brutally dishonouring women, flaying people alive, wholesale slaughter of men, women and children, burning alive entire families, forcibly converting people in thousands and slaying those who refused to get converted, throwing half dead people into wells and leaving the victims to struggle for escape till finally released from their suffering by death, burning a great many and looting practically all Hindu and Christian houses in the disturbed areas in which even Moplah women and children took part and robbed women of even the garments on their bodies, in short reducing the whole non-Muslim population to abject destitution, cruelly insulting the religious sentiments of the Hindus by desecrating and destroying numerous temples in the disturbed areas, killing cows within the temple precincts putting their entrails on the holy image and hanging skulls on the walls and the roofs.”
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As for Sri Lanka, the Tamil hindus fled back to India to escape the lankan persecution.

during Dogra rule on Kashmir, many Muslims migrated to Punjab and worked as cheap labor. They were called ‘Hato’. Many died on way due to severe weather