*Decline of Hindus and the Rise of Muslims in Assam * blog.cpsindia.org.
INDIA, April 5, 2016 (Centre for Policy Studies, Dr. J. K. Bajaj): I have posted our eighteenth note on the Religion Data of Census 2011. This concerns Assam, where the accretion to the Muslim share during 2001-11 has been the highest of all States. Their share in Assam has gone up by 3.3 percentage points, as compared to the national average of 0.8 percentage points. This is also the second highest quantum of rise in Muslim share that Assam has witnessed in any decade since 1901. Muslim share in Assam had risen by 9.6 percentage points in the pre-Independence period of 1901 to 1951 as a consequence of the British efforts to settle Muslim peasantry from several districts of what is now Bangladesh in the highly fertile Goalpara region of Brahmaputra valley. Their share has increased by the same 9.6 percentage points in the 4 decades since 1971; and more than one-third of this accretion has occurred in the last decade alone. As a result, Muslims have now acquired a commanding majority in a large and relatively more fertile and densely populated part of Assam. The numbers and the trends indicate that this majority has now become permanent and is going to become more and more entrenched in the coming decades. More at "source". -- -- With best wishes S Chander -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
