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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘The Population Myth’ review: Not a ‘demographic’ battle -A Faizur Rahman

‘The Population Myth’ review: Not a ‘demographic’ battle -A Faizur Rahman

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published Published on Apr 24, 2021   modified Modified on Apr 26, 2021

-The Hindu

With logic, and data from unimpeachable sources, former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi’s book debunks the myth around exaggerated fears of Indian Muslim numbers

An impartial analysis of Islamophobia in India would reveal that what generated it was not Islam but a sense of political insecurity born out of exaggerated fears of Muslim numbers. These anxieties came to the fore in the early 1900s after the partition of Bengal, the passage of the Punjab Land Acquisition Act of 1900, and when the Indian Councils Act of 1909 introduced separate electorates for Muslims.

More recently, in September 2004, the VHP working president of north Gujarat region Chinubhai Patel expressed alarm at the 36% rise in the decadal growth rate of Muslims recorded in the 2001 Census and said that the community was “conspiring to convert ‘Hindu rajya’ into a Muslim country.” And in October 2019, BJP leader Surendra Singh warned that Hindutva will become endangered in the next 50 years unless population control laws are enacted in the country.

Wealth of material

S.Y. Quraishi’s The Population Myth seeks to counter this disinformation campaign with hard data. The book brings together a wealth of information from unimpeachable sources to show that Muslims can never outnumber the Hindus given the trend in the last 70 years, and that by 2101 the Indian population will stabilise around 1.7 billion, with 1.27 billion Hindus and 320 million Muslims. However, the stabilisation of the Muslim population will be slower by 40 years due to the lag in demographic transition.

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The Hindu, 24 April, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/the-population-myth-review-not-a-demographic-battle/article34390864.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR3nfdC89wDe5fF8PiH2jjQ2aD8_EMVfK3wJJZgjEfj3JN4FTkOhpazYgXw


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