Bengal's Hindu Holocaust: The Partition of India and Its Aftermath

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Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2021 - Reference - 462 pages
Bengal's Hindu Holocaust: India's Partition and its Aftermath by Sachi G Dastidar is a book that rakes up a topic, which has virtually been a taboo--the issue of vanishing Hindus from Bangladesh and their current situation in India's West Bengal and surrounding regions.In a matter of only a few decades, more than three million Hindus died and nearly 49 million went "missing". Their families face persecution on a daily basis in Bangladesh, while there are other issues like demographic change in West Bengal, parts of Assam and other North-Eastern states. Men are harassed and killed, their property is confiscated, thanks to Enemy Property Act, and women are kidnapped/ raped leaving the hapless Hindu community ask the question: "Aamago lokera jai koi (Where do my people go)?". The research for this was painstaking and painful for the author, as the authorities remained in near complete denial that a systematic persecution of the Hindu community was and remains, virtually, a daily affair.

About the author (2021)

Sachi G. Dastidar is a Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of New York, Old Westbury. He has also taught in Kazakhstan, Ireland, India, Florida State and Alabama A&M University. He was elected to a NYC School Board. He has authored 20 books and Journals (2019), and has written over 150 articles. He was born in India to Hindu refugee parents who fled their home of 500 years after a pogrom. Since finding their ancestral home he established Probini Foundation which educates poor and orphaned children in 33 schools in Bangladesh and India; and later established Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Project. One of his first books on Partition of India, Ai Bangla Oi Bangla (This Bengal that Bengal, 1991) was written about in almost all the papers and journals in Indian Bengal and in Bangladesh, with the largest-circulation Indian newspaper reviewing it twice. His Empire's Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent's Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities, Firma KLM Publishers, India, was quoted in US Congress. His has received two Senior Fulbright Awards, honors from residents of Mahilara, Madaripur and Uzirpur villages (Bangladesh), Assam Buddhist Vihar (India), from Kazakhstan Institute. In Uzirpur, Bangladesh a new "Dastidar Sanskrit College Building" was dedicated in his honor, and a Marble bust was unveiled in Malikanda, Bangladesh.

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