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Sher Shah Suri Tomb in Sasaram.He was the founder of the Sur Empire and was born in Bihar to Pashtun parents.. The large-scale arrival of Muslims in Bihar began in the 14th century, when Turk traders and Sufi saints-warriors settled in the South Bihar plains and furthered the process of agricultural colonisation while also spreading Islam among the local populace.
Bihar (now a state in eastern India) was plagued by communal violence between Muslims and Hindus due to partition, [17] along with the other former territories of British India. [18] More than 30,000 Bihari Muslims were killed in October and November 1946, and it is estimated that up to one million migrated to East Pakistan. [19]
Bihari (listen ⓘ) is a demonym ... During the Partition of India in 1947, many Bihari Muslims migrated to East Bengal (renamed to East Pakistan; later became ...
Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh (Urdu: محصور پاکستانی, mahsūr pākistānī, Bengali: উদ্বাস্তু পাকিস্তানি, romanized: udbāstu pākistāni) are Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants with homelands in present-day India (then part of British India) who settled in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) following the partition of India in 1947.
Shershabadia, also known as Badia are a Bengali Muslim community found in the state of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand in India. [2] They belong to Shaikh community and also form a significant part of the Shaikhs of West Bengal and Bihar. Common surnames used by the community include Shekh, Sekh, Haque, Islam, Mondal. [3]
The resolution stated that Muslims in Bihar still felt a threat "to life or property," and that the disturbances might easily spread. The resolution also stated that Hugh Dow, the governor of Bihar, and the Indian National Congress were responsible for the massacre. The Muslim League stated that Hindu mobs had killed 30,000 people in the ...
On the night of 25 March... the Bengali troops and paramilitary units stationed in East Pakistan mutinied and attacked non-Bengalis with atrocious savagery. Thousands of families of unfortunate Muslims, many of them refugees from Bihar who chose Pakistan at the time of the partition riots in 1947, were mercilessly wiped out.
According to Bihar Minority Commission report and several other historical books they are considered to be an Ashraf community [6] [full citation needed] among Bihari Muslims, which means that they have high social status. They are mainly concentrated around Nawada, Sheikhpura, Nalanda and Patna district.