Desecrating Memory: How Revisionists Whitewash the Bengal Pogroms of 1946

Ahemede Hussain’s Wire article distorts the 1946 Bengal massacres by recasting them as peasant revolts for justice, rather than what they were—pre-planned pogroms targeting Hindus under the banner of Pakistan.

The claim that Islam offered Dalits dignity and escape from Hindu oppression ignores entrenched caste-like hierarchies within Muslim society, both historically and today, as seen in the Pasmanda marginalization.

Citing Jogendra Nath Mandal as proof of Muslim egalitarianism is misleading—his political career in Pakistan ended in betrayal, disillusionment, and exile after witnessing atrocities against Hindus.

Equating communal violence with class struggle is an ethical inversion; it obscures the religious motivations behind mass rape, slaughter, and forced conversions, and insults the memory of the Hindu victims.

By cloaking jihadist violence in progressive language, The Wire article contributes to ideological sanitization, erases historical truth, and numbs public memory to the brutal reality of the Partition-era atrocities.