Hindo-Muslims or Muslo-Hindus?
Just read a post about a village in UP where Hindus and Muslims not only live in harmony but also intermarry uninhibited by regulations of either side. Forcibly converted by Aurangzeb, they have since learned to life happily with each other.. In my historical novel MASTANI I detailed the brahmin and kshtriya roots of both Peshwa Baji Rao I and his second wife Mastani. Yet their offspring were railroaded into Islam because her mother was muslim. that happened for political and succession reasons perhaps. It took three generations for them to actually assimilate Islam. Two centuries down the line, none other than Lokmanya Tilak invited the muslim branch to Pune to suggest a return to the family fold. The attempt foundered on Brahmin rocks who demanded : will they become brahmins or ksytriyas? who will marry their children? Another century the line to the release of my MASTANI to bring about a rapprochement...