The Leftist propaganda portal The Wire has once again exposed its grotesque disingenuousness by publishing a shamelessly revisionist article by Bangladeshi writer Ahmede Hussain, which distorts the bloody history of Partition and the genocide of Bengali Hindus under the fraudulent banner of “social justice” and “class struggle.”
Hussain’s piece is not just ahistorical; it is an insidious attempt to sanitize the religious fanaticism and ethnic cleansing that defined the creation of Pakistan, particularly in East Bengal. By framing the Pakistan Movement as some noble Marxist uprising against feudal oppression, he deliberately obscures the brutal reality: it was a movement steeped in Islamic majoritarianism, culminating in the mass slaughter of Hindus on Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) and the systemic extermination of Bengali Hindus during Partition.
The Big Lie: A “Class Struggle”?
Hussain’s argument hinges on the absurd claim that the demand for Pakistan in East Bengal was a “revolt” against zamindars and caste oppression, rather than a religiously motivated campaign for Muslim supremacy. This is Marxist sophistry at its worst.
The Nawab of Dhaka, Khwaja Nazimuddin, a feudal aristocrat and key architect of Partition, was no revolutionary fighting for the downtrodden. He was a wealthy elite who rallied Muslims under the banner of Islam to carve out a theocratic state.
Jogendra Nath Mandal, the Dalit leader Hussain selectively cites, was ultimately betrayed by the same Muslim League he supported. After Partition, Mandal fled Pakistan in 1950, disillusioned by the relentless persecution of Hindus and Dalits in the new Islamic state. His own experience demolishes Hussain’s fantasy of Pakistan as an egalitarian utopia.
Direct Action Day, orchestrated by Jinnah, was not a “class revolt” – it was a calculated pogrom where fanatic Muslim mobs, incited by the League, butchered Hindus in Calcutta and Noakhali. The violence was explicitly communal, not economic.
Even if we were to grant The Wire’s fantasy that Pakistan was born out of some egalitarian impulse, history laughs at the claim.
Land reforms collapsed.
Peasant poverty remained untouched.
Power was monopolized by the same feudal elites and religious aristocracy.
Minorities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Ahmadis, were persecuted, driven out, or reduced to second-class subjects.
What kind of “social justice” is it where minorities are slaughtered, and women are dishonored in the streets?
The Marxist Playbook: Weaponizing “Social Justice” to Erase Hindu Suffering
Partition was not a sterile chess game of classes. It was a blood-soaked jihad. Across Calcutta, Noakhali, Punjab, and Sindh, mobs marched under the Banner of the Prophet (rāyat al-`uqāb), shouting “Nara-e-Takbir, Allahu Akbar.” Hindus were forced at swordpoint to recite the kalma, eat beef, and watch their temples desecrated before being hacked down.
Direct Action Day (1946, Calcutta): Eyewitness Philip Talbot described bloated, mutilated bodies floating in the streets, women raped in front of families, children orphaned overnight. At least 4,000–10,000 were killed and 100,000 rendered homeless within 72 hours.
Noakhali (1946): Hindu homes looted, temples burnt, women abducted, mass forced conversions. At least 5,000 dead, thousands of women dishonored.
Moplah-led Massacre of Hindus (1921): Whitewashed as a “peasant revolt,” this was jihad in the rawest form. 2,500 Hindus butchered, tens of thousands displaced, women raped, temples razed. Mobs marched with the green Islamic flag, chanting Khilafat slogans, declaring jihad as their sacred duty. Gandhi called these jihadis “my brave Moplah brethren.”
Kashmir (1990): Echoes of the same slogans, “Raliv, Galiv, ya Chaliv” (convert, die, or flee), with Hindus driven out under threat of death and rape.
These were not “class wars.” These were religious pogroms, waged under the banner of faith, justified by promises of paradise for jihadists. To strip the violence of its religious character is to lie twice over: once about history, and again about the meaning of Hindu survival.
Hussain’s piece follows this sinister tradition, erasing Hindu victims while portraying their killers as oppressed revolutionaries. It is no coincidence that The Wire, a hub of Marxist-Leninist apologia, platformed this garbage. Their agenda is clear: demonize Hindu civilizational memory while absolving Islamist violence under the cover of “progressive” rhetoric.
Hypocrisy of Marxist Portals
The Wire and its ideological ilk never fail to expose their hypocrisy. They sermonise endlessly about “speaking truth to power,” yet they peddle narratives that excuse the worst atrocities against Hindus as “structural struggles.” They posture about “social justice” while justifying bloodshed carried out under religious banners. They weep crocodile tears for minorities everywhere, yet for the Hindu victims of Bengal, Malabar, or Kashmir, they have nothing but erasure and disdain.
When Hindus are slaughtered, the story becomes “class struggle.” When Hindus resist, the same portals deride it as “majoritarianism.” This double standard is not accidental. It is ideological warfare.
Civilizational Memory Cannot Be Erased
Sitaram Goel once warned of this very Marxist ploy: to recast Quran-ordained jihad as peasant uprising, to weaponize class struggle as a fig leaf for religious bigotry. That is exactly what Hussain’s essay attempts – and The Wire, ever eager to toe the Marxist line, happily amplifies it.
But history is not so easily rewritten. Civilizational memory runs deep. Hindus remember (and will continue to remember) the carnage of Direct Action Day. We remember the flight of millions of refugees from East Bengal. We remember the broken temples, the desecrated homes, the women who never came back.
And we refuse to let their sacrifice be trivialised by the sophistry of “class struggle.”
Ahmede Hussain and The Wire are just apologists for religious extremism, repackaging the Pakistan Movement’s butchery of Hindus as some noble “class struggle.”
Try telling that to the millions of Bengali Hindus slaughtered on Direct Action Day, or the families wiped out during Partition, the victims not of “feudal oppression,” but of Islamic majoritarianism. No Marxist jargon can whitewash the bloodstains of Noakhali, Calcutta, or the systemic cleansing of Hindus from East Bengal.
Hussain even forgot how his own people from East Bengali were massacred during Operation Searchlight in 1971 when the Pakistan Army and its allies perpetrated genocide against East Pakistanis, targeting Bengalis especially Hindus and intellectuals through mass killings, rape, and village destruction. Estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 3,000,000, and hundreds of thousands of women were sexually assaulted. While Bengali Hindus were disproportionately affected, many Bengali Muslims were also killed, particularly those supporting independence or suspected of pro-liberation sympathies. The violence stemmed from efforts to suppress Bengali nationalism and identity, not just religious differences, making it one of modern history’s worst atrocities.
Partition in East Bengal was not a Marxist revolution; it was religious majoritarianism unchained, with Hindus as its primary victims. To call it anything else is not just bad history – it is moral depravity.
When Leftists whitewash jihad as ‘class struggle,’ they don’t just lie about the past. They arm the oppressors of the future.”
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