Split of Population by Religion - India and Pakistan (On Hindsight)

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Re: Split of Population by Religion - India and Pakistan (On Hindsight)

@psyah

Peace All

I’ve been doing some calculations and have come to an interesting conclusion.

Today the sub-continent is generally 3 countries Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and I was looking at the figures by percentage of Muslims and Hindus.

If we believe the stats then there are about:

178M Muslims - Pakistan (95%)
3.8M Hindus - Pakistan (2%)

154.8M Muslims - India (13.4%)
9,300M Hindus - India (80.5%)

145.2M Muslims - Bangladesh (89.5%)
14.6M Hindus - Bangladesh (9%)

Looking at India the ratio of Hindus : Muslims = 6 i.e. there are 6 times the number of Hindus to Muslims in India. Assume the partitions did not take place if we add the total number of Muslims in the subcontinent and Hindus in the subcontinent the proportions are quite a bit different.

Muslims = 478/1505 = 32%
Hindus = 948.4/1505 = 63%

Now we see that the ratio Hindus : Muslims = 2 … i.e. over the whole subcontinent there are twice as many Hindus as Muslims. This is an amazing number … We now know that 32% in terms of democracy is a number that is quite influential … it is not to say that all 32% will be aligned … but for sure we are more powerful as a single unit.

In fact when we were told to stick together as a jamma’ why did we not listen to this vital advice?

I was talking about the same thing with my dad and of course, if you look at the numbers, no Indian government could function without Muslim input.

Frankly, Partition and the events leading up to it are not as black and white as taught in Pakistani history textbooks.