WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs and literary traditions. They neither intermarry nor eat together, and indeed they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to scholar Francis Robinson’s research, India’s colonial structure instigated the hostility between Hindus and Muslims. This was no doubt caused by Muslims being the minority in British-India, which drove this demographic to form a separate political identity away from British and Hindu influence.

Detailed explanation-3: -The seminal event in the modern history of Hindu-Muslim relations in the region was the partition of the subcontinent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan at the end of the British colonial period in 1947.