Practice of polygamy is prevalent more among NON-MUSLIMS IN INDIA.
Conspiracies hatched by communalist and fascist forces in order to defame Muslims are now being exposed one by one. It is said that if a lie is told hundred times it begins to appear to be true. Among the many propaganda and slogans devised by Sangh outfits after Independence in order to keep Muslims away from the national mainstream and to make them outcastes, one was the propaganda that Muslims marry four times and produce many children and if the same practice continues, a time will come when Muslims will be in majority in this country. The objective of such propaganda was to discredit and bring bad name to Muslims and to fan hatred and enmity against them in the minds of countrymen and to make them easy prey for communal and fascist forces so that during riots police as well as administrative machinery should indulge in cruelty and barbarism against them. This is always being done against them after independence and Muslims have been projected as a community harmful for this country.
The propaganda that Muslims marry four times and produce
large number of children is oldest and communal elements have done their best
to prove this right but contrary to all this, statistics show that in this
country our Hindu brethren are ahead of Muslims in marrying more than once.
Statistics indicate that the practice of maximum
marriages in the country exists among the adivasis who keep dozens of wives.
There are certain cases in which some adivasis have married 50 or more women.
The practice of polygamy or having more than one wife among adivasis is 15
percent. After them are Buddhists, almost 8% of whom practice polygamy. The
rate of polygamy among Hindus is 5.8% and among Muslims it is lowest with 5.7%.
These statistics are based on 1961 census because in this census polygamy was
surveyed for the first time which proved that the practice of keeping more than
one wife was minimum among Muslims.
In 1974, a government survey found Muslims to account for
5.6% of all bigamous marriages and upper-caste Hindus accounting for 5.8%.
A 1993 survey by Mallika B. Mistry ( of the well-regarded
Gokhale Institute ) found incidence of polygamy is lowest among Muslims
(5.70%). Hindus are more polygamous (5.80%) as are Jains (6.72%), Buddhists
(7.90%) and Adivasis (15.25%).
The tragedy is that fascist and communal forces start
targeting Muslim personal and family laws and in order to defame Muslims they
try to indulge in false and outmoded accusation of bigamy or polygamy among
Muslims, conveniently ignoring and forgetting that as regards bigamy or
polygamy, the same accusation boomerangs on them with greater force. Now that
the facts have been unfolded, with what face they can now say that Muslims
practice polygamy when the rate of polygamy is greater in them and much greater
among adivasis who also follow the faith, customs and practices of Hindus.
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