ARE REALLY ? MOST INDIAN MUSLIMS ARE CONVERT EDHINDU

A report by a government official of the Andhra Pradesh has put together the socio-economic history of Indian muslims for last several centuries, and has concluded that 85% muslims in India were formerly lower-caste Hindus upset about Hinduism’s rigid and inflexbile structure. The writer of the report, P S Krishnan, a Human Resources advisor for Andhra Pradesh, has contended that religious conversions, for many such Indians, were opportunities to escape India’s class system.
A major problem with my assertion is that it ignores a very, very large number of conversions that were commonplace when muslim invaders and rulers won new territories and through mandates, tax structures and use of force, converted poor Hindu families to Islam. There are innumerable known cases of conversions of lower and upper caste-Hindus to Islam, cases that have nothing to do with the class system but everything to do with the circumstances.
let us take 2 very good examplefrom the Maratha history, significant by virtue of the Marathas having a powerful Hindu king (Shivaji) who had a successful 40-year Hindu stint right in the middle of the Mughal empire. The chief of Shivaji’s army, Netaji Palkar, briefly converted to Islam because he thought he was being passed over for promotion by his King, and because he wasn’t getting the due rewards of his bravery by his own king. Muslim rulers successfuly bribed, cajoled, forced and blackmailed many Hindus into converting, a fact that had nothing to do with the prevailing class system, but more to do with circumstances, financial needs, poverty, etc. The second example is King Shivaji’s own son Sambhaji, who was threatened by his muslim captors into accepting Islam. Sambhaji refused and ended up blind with his eyes gouged out, eventually leading to his death in captivity.
If we feel that the class system is really the reason for this religious exodus, why does he insist on perpetuating the class system by labeling Indians as belonging to this or that caste, by advocating on caste-census, and by trying to revise reservation strategies to add more reservations and quotas to select Indians?

Sure, some Hindus left Hinduism because they were sick of it. Some of those Hindus became Muslims, others became Christians. So what? Shouldn’t we letting the bygones be bygones and chart a new course?

By labeling the conversions as a caste-issue, the government report is sending a signal to Muslims, letting them know that soon, there will be more reservations based on these ‘newfound’ historical facts. So, sooner or later, this report will form the basis for adding more groups to the scheduled caste categories, helping assign additional quotas for those groups, and creating additional vote banks (the real purpose behind reservations and quotas) for political parties. Today it is Indian Muslims, tomorrow it will be Indian Christians. Soon, even the so-called higher-caste Hindus will be proved to be once belonging to lower-castes, and then everyone will have guaranteed reservations in the universities, industries and government.