Kashmiriyat vs.Sinicization

In India, communist writers celebrate so called pluralistic and liberal traditions of Kashmir. They call it kashmiriyat (another fad like Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb). They are anyway silent on forcible exodus of 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits; constituting 99% of the total population of Hindus living in Muslim majority area of the Kashmir Valley. 

Hindus were presented with three choices - Ralive, Tsaliv ya Galive (convert to Islam, leave the place or perish).

Communist writers in India will never shed tears over unrest and changing demography in Xinjiang in communist China as this will expose their hypocrisy.

Jean A. Bertie in his book “Islam in China-Hui and Uyghurs between Modernization and Sinicization” have this to say about Uyghur population in China-

“There is a growing Sinicization linked to intense Han immigration. This wave of the Chinese population recently brought the percentage of Han to more than 50% in the region for the first time. Han migrants are rarely mentioned by local authorities (Gladney 2004), but the Uyghurs are no longer the majority in their Autonomous Region. If a referendum were to take place, a self-governing platform would not be assured of victory.”

“Demography alone explains Xinjiang's intense Sinicization. Before the Second World War, Chinese civil servants and merchants were not numerous. In the early 1940s, there were about 4 million minority people in this province, and 200,000 Han. The Chinese increased from 6% in 1949 to 40% in 1962. In 1982, they were 5 million to 6 million Uyghurs and I million other Turkic minorities. In 1988, the Uyghur still dominated,but this is no longer the case. The Chinese are thus peacefully invading Central Asia, and Uyghurs are now a minority in their own cities. In 2002, the population of Xinjiang officially reached 17 million, including 42% Han. This percentage does not reflect current demographic Han pre-eminence, and it will be difficult to promote Uyghur nationalism in a region dominated numerically, economically, politically, and militarily by the Han.”

“The image of the conquering Muslim warrior developed by Max Weber does not apply to modern China. Since September 2001, one might have expected a "jihadic" revival but this did not occur. Nearly all cities in Xinjiang have Han majorities: 90% of the population of Urumchi is Chinese, and in Aksu the percentage is close to 80%. Measures to control local populations are severe, and the Chinese no longer fear Uyghurs except in the countryside and that rarely. A bazaar located in the center of Kashgar (Kundervazta Street and its side streets) behind the old mosque, the most typical part of this city, might be demolished as part of a plan to renovate the city. How can the Kashgari oppose the eradication of their historic bazaar? It was finally demolished in 2003 to make room for Chinese shopping malls.”