From: jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan)
Subject: Re: BM-RJB issue (more developments)
Reply-To: jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:05:24 GMT

In article <1bfdjcINNiam@phad.hsc.usc.edu>, banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit
Banerjee) writes:
> In article <1992Oct13.184703.29503@csrd.uiuc.edu> ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu
(Sanjoy Ghosh) writes:
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> >No, as you made quite clear in this post, no communication gap.  But to
> >repeat my earlier question, who or what gives anybody the right to divide
> >any group of people up, homogeneously or otherwise.  How would Bengos like
> >being distributed all over South India, simply because they are segregated
> >in West Bengal.  Quite possible the Naxal problem would never have arisen
> >if that had been done.  I know it does not take a God to do that.  A Hitler
> >is enough.
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> The Naxal problem is very much alive in Andhra Pradesh today and has nothing
> to do with the Bongs being there. On a related note, Tripura and Assam have
> sizeable Bengali populations but no Naxalite movements. 
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> The point is, dont try and blame the Naxal problem on the Bengali people as
> a whole. This was a movement patronised by a small coeteie of people with 
> grand visions of assuming power through an armed struggle and they found and 
> used certain misguided youth to carry it out. Incidentally, the same kind of 
> people are in power in Bengal today although I would suspect, all illusions 
> of a revolution have long since been abandoned.
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> >>     After the independence people from outside Kashmir were not allowed to
> >> buy land there. If it has been allowed, population would be more
homogeneous
> >>there, and hopefully this would have thwarted an attempt of muslim
extremists
> >>to secede. 
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> >Nobody likes being swamped bOBy outsiders, and made to feel like second 
> >class citizens in their land.  And that is exactly what would have
> >hsppened in Kashmir if the gates had been opened.  Been true in Bombay,
> >Calcutta, and Shillong at least.  
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> "outsiders"....since when am I considered an outsider in my own country?
> Incidentally an average Indian's right to own property in any part of the 
> country is violated by the so called "second class citizens" paranoia that
> you have voiced.
> 
> Creating small enclaves for ethnic/religious and/or linguistic minoritites
> prevents their overall integration into the national mainstream and this
hurts
> rather than helps them in the long run. And even from a rational or logical
> point of view, I dont see why this should be done. 
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> >Kashmiris being such a small population
> >they would have gone the way of the aborigines in no time.  Don't see how
> >that could be avoided.
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> A threat to the survival of the Kashmiri people was not the reason why the 
> state  has been kept off limits to most Indians. And if what you say is
> true, it's better than trying to preserve them in reservations like the
> native Indians here in the US.  
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> >>After all, if Kashmir is a part of our country, then why it should
> >> not be just like  any other  part    of India, why it should have a 
> >>special status?      
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> >How many Kashmiris have said they are a part of India?  And how many 
> >have said they would unconditionally be part of India?
> 
> Yes and that is the whole point. That is what needs to be changed. And a
> changed demographic situation can do that.



 Pure fascist crap !!!



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> >The point here is that when exploitation gets (or might get) to the
> >point of extinction then it becomes very much part of a discussion
> >such as this.
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> Pure socialistic crap!!! 
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> Exploitation may lead to extinction but that is the law of nature.
> Darwin called it "survival of the fittest".  And that is why socialism has
> been exposed as such a farce!!!
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--Javed.
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