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Syed Shahabuddin is a well known in the political and academic circles as well as in the mass media and does not need an introduction.
In his many incarnations he has been a university teacher, a diplomat, who served as an ambassador and a government official who was at the time of his seeking pre-mature retirement, the Joint Secretary in charge of South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific in the Ministry of External Affairs. He was a MP for three terms between 1979 and 1996 and made a mark as a Parliamentarian. He has edited Muslim India, the monthly journal of research, documentation and reference from 1983 to 2002 and again from July 2006. He has been a regular contributor on current affairs in the media and a familiar participant in seminars and TV discussions. He has been a member of many learned bodies and associated with several Muslim institutions and organizations. More...
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12 March, 2009

To,
The Editor,
Jana Sangh Today,
203 - A, Prakash House , 
Ansari Road, Daryaganj
New Delhi - 110002

Sir,
            I have read the biographical sketch of Prof. Balraj Madhok in your issue of March, 2009. He would obviously like the Muslim Indians to receive the same treatment as meted out to them in Communist countries, which do not recognize religion and therefore religious minorities or minority rights. For example, he would like the Muslims of India to Hinduise their names or if they do not do so voluntarily, the state to force them to adopt Hindu names. Those Muslim whose mother tongue is different from the principal language of the state they live in, basically the Urdu speaking minority, should be forced to give up their mother tongue and adopt the state language. In any case, it cannot be Hindi or Sanskrit all over the country, as Prof. Madhok would have preferred! He also wants history of medieval India to be rewritten by adopting the approach of the historians wedded to the Hindutva ideology or belonging to the Oak school.
            Prof. Madhok is apparently not satisfied with the demolition of the Babri Masjid. He would like the Shahi Masjid Idgah in Mathura contiguous to the SriKrishna Janam-Sthan to be demolished (and perhaps also the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi) and thousands of other Masjids scattered throughout the country which are alleged to have been built over the debris of Hindu temples after their deliberate demolition.
            There is hardly any Muslim political party in India. But if he wants to close the door to the emergence of a Muslim party or a Muslim-core party, the Constitution will need to be rewritten on the line of the draft already in circulation which derecognizes Muslims as citizens.
            My question to you is whether all these acts of coercion by Hindu nationalists will ever succeed in ‘integrating’ Muslim Indians with the rest of the people. But Prof. Madhok really wants absorption and assimilation and not integration, as universally understood.