[mukto-mona] Some of the facts that I would like Mr. Ray and Dr. Das to consider

I agree with Mr. Sankar Kumar Ray, this debate between him and Dr. Kamal Das has been "pushed astray to a ludicrous extent." I can clearly see that Mr. Ray and Dr. Das both have read a lot more of history than I have. However, I can also see that none of these gentlemen are expert historians. Yet the arguments of "this authority is right, that authority is wrong" keep going, with a certain amount of personal attacks.   Much of the focus of this debate has been about the wealth of Bengal in the eighteenth century, and how much of that the British stole. The way I see it, the question of how bad was it for Bengal that Siraj was defeated by the British can not be addressed properly by looking at the wealth and its stealing issue.   Here are some of the facts that I would like Mr. Ray and Dr. Das to consider:   1)      The Hindu Caste System is going away, albeit too slowly. 2)      Treating of women as nobody by her own rights has been going away from India. (Even in my childhood, the vast majority of women were best known as being someone's daughter, sister, wife, mother, etc., with hardly any identity of their own). 3)      Hindu female children did not inherit any property from her parents, unless if all her siblings were female. Muslim female children get a fraction of the male children from the parents. I believe there have been some improvements there for the Hindu women; I am not sure to what extent. 4)      The life of the average Hindu widow in India is still too much of a misery. 5)      Democracy and human rights are alien concepts in virtually everywhere in the world where the Muslims are in power.   Now, I would like Mr. Ray and Dr. Das to debate on which of the above points Siraj's survival in 1757 would have improved human life in the land that is the Indian sub-continent today.   Thanks to Mr. Ray and Dr. Das.   Sukhamaya Bain

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