Read this thread am going to write now to know why Eastern Bengal (Bangladaesh as its known today) succumbed to turushka, while the Western part remained largely Hindu.
The source of this thread is Jadunath Sarkar's book on History of Bengal Volume 2. Here it goes (1)
"In these regions the people up to the foot holds of the hills were Mongoloid by race, spirit-worshippers by religion, and speakers of many local dialects which had no written literature and were foreign to the literary Bengali of Gaud, Varendri and Raarh.. (2)
.. By the inexorable force of geography, the people of
west Bengal, especially in the Gangetic valley were more largely
and more deeply subject to the Aryan or Aryo-Dravidian influence
that filtrated through Anga (Bhagalpur) than the natives of East
Bengal... (3)
.. In an earlier age Buddhism had dominated the country from Kamrup to Chittagong, and evidence of it is still to be found in literary references and antiquarian remains. But at the time of the Muslim conquest. (1230 A.D.) and for some centuries before
it.. (4)
... the religion of the masses in Bengal and indeed of many
of the gentry too was Taantrik Hinduism, which could be hardly
distinguished from the spirit worship and magic of later Buddhism, as
still found in Tibet. In the Hindu period, Sanskrit scholars, Hindu
physicians... (5)
.. and eminent Brahman priests from the west freely crossed the river barrier and settled in East Bengal; and, in the opposite direction, pilgrims from East Bengal used to visit the Courts and famous shrines of West Bengal... (6)
.. But on the fall of Nadia and Gaur to the Muslims even this little interchange of cultures ceased. For some time after, the mass of the people east of the Teesta river and the Brahmaputra remained Hindus, but their religion was not akin to that of the Hindus of Gaur.. (7)
... They had no learned Brahman priesthood, no Sanskrit scriptures, no Vedic ritual. Their worship was almost everywhere conducted by illiterate animistic priests or more properly witch-doctors... (8)
...with no resident Brahman clergy to look after their religious instruction or conduct their rites properly, the Hindu masses of East Bengal remained as shop without a spiritual shepherd, just like their
Mongoloid Buddhistic brethren of Kamrup and Arakan... (9)
.. Hence, when Shah Jalal (of Sylhet) and other missionaries of the Crescent arrived to preach Islam to them, no worthy priests of Hinduism came forth to accept the challenge, and the masses of East Bengal were easily converted to Islam en masse from spirit-worship.. (10)
In other words, lack of sizeable Brahmin population to perform priestly duties in Eastern Bengal led to the easy conversion of natives from a simple form of Hinduism to turushka.
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"This structure, equalling in size the Great Mosque of Damascus, was built by the spoliation of Hindu and Buddhist shrines. According to R. K. Chakravartty, a Buddhist stupa was
dismantled to secure the necessary materials.. (1)
..for its building, but the remains of Hindu images as well are visible today in every part of this mosque. A block with the carved head of a lion which is said to have formed part of a Hindu throne, is found attached to the steps leading to the pulpit.. (2)
.. many mutilated figures of Hindu deities are found in the door-sills and prayer-niches all over the mosque. The 400 pillars with their graceful fluted shafts and
expanding lotus-capitals which produce such an imposing effect, were similarly transplanted from Hindu shrines.. (3)
Jadunath Sarkar in his book on History of Bengal Volume II writes on how Bengalis, particularly those in Eastern Bengal (now Bangladaesh) were converted to turushka.
"By destroying temples and monasteries the Muslim
warriors of earlier times had only appropriated their...(1)
..gold & silver; but the sword could not silence history, nor carry off their immortal spiritual treasure wherein lay rooted Hindu idolatry & Hindu nationalism. The 'saints' of Islam completed the process of conquest, moral and spiritual, by establishing dargahs & khanqahs.. (2)
..deliberately on the sites of these ruined places of Hindu and Buddhist
worship. This served a double purpose of preventing the revival of
these places of heathen sanctity, and later on, of installing themselves as the guardian deities with tales of pious fraud..(3)
This desert 🐀 mahmud literally scurried away back to his 💩hole ghazni through deserts of Kutch fearing retribution at the hands of Paramara Bhoja. His army of ghazi 🐀🐀 were mangled to death by the Jats of Sindh while escaping. All this is recorded by his own co-reliogionists
Read more here. Somanatha was immediately restored to an even more grander state by both Bhojadeva & Bhima, while Mandalika, a commander from Somanatha town pursued the ghazi 🐀 through the deserts & killed many of them as retribution.
Evangelical vultures & their zeal to convert Hindus has remained the same for centuries. Here is a vulture Friar John of italy who was sent to India & China to convert natives in the 1290's. He spent around 13 months in India & boasts he baptized around 100 people here.
Early missions to India were a complete & utter failure. Each of these missionaries in their travel account lament how difficult it was to convert Hindus. Chief reason being how attached the Hindu was to his own customs & traditions.
Chiefly murthi puja & reverence for Gaumata.
At the very core of contemporary Hindu religion is Murthi puja & reverence for Gaumata.
You wanna finish off Hinduism as we know it? Strike at these two. Which is exactly what is happening. Never allow to be shamed. Especially on anything related to Gaumata.