It is a fact that the caste system has contributed greatly to conversion of Hindus to Islam.

Have been reading with interest your posts on conversion. Although I am itching to join the debate, I dare not. It is a fact that the caste system has contributed greatly to conversion of Hindus to Islam. Many were thrown out of the Hindu biradari because they had broken some caste rule... Like crossing the seven seas. I have heard that Begum Liaquat Ali (wife of the first PM of Pakistan) 's father was a Kumaoni Brahmin who was not accepted into the Hindu fold on his return from abroad. He had no option but to convert. My father tells a very touching story which his grandmother told him. A Hindu child bride was being taken to her sasuraal by train immediately after marriage. In those days water was sold separately at stations as Hindu pani and Muslim pani. The child bride on feeling thirsty asked the lady attendant sent with her to get her some water. The attendant inadvertently brought her Muslim pani. The in laws on noticing this just dumped the child and attendant at the station, and left, with all her jewellery and finery, of course. She had lost caste according to them. My father who was in London in 1959 was told by a Pakistani Kashmiri Muslim that immediately after Partition some of them had thought of embracing Hinduism, but Hindus were unwilling to admit them to the higher castes. Why should they leave their religion to become lower caste Hindus. Am not posting this on the Group, because my friends will not like it.