"...We find one influential Muslim writer in Bengal thinking the Muslim convert in Bengal to be a political liability. In 1891 Khondkar Fazl-i Rabbi, dTwan to the Nawwab of Murshldabad, published HaqTqat-i Musalmdn-i Bangala, intended to bring the "ruin" (tibah) of "high Muslim families" (khwas khandani musalman)82 to the notice of the British-Indian government. That government had, Fazl-i Rabbi argued, remained indifferent to the existence of such families and to their need for entry into the public services on honourable, not to say advantageous, terms, partly through an official preference for Hindus. Moreover, it had recently, in the person of Mr. Beverley, held Muslims up to ridicule by publishing the mis taken belief that the overwhelming majority of Bengal's Muslims were descended from low-caste Hindus who had embraced Islam. Such beliefs as Beverley's encouraged the present indifference to the "high and ancient" Muslim of Bengal, who was therefore sinking lower for want of government employ. Once the government was properly informed of the facts, to wit, that the generality (aksar) of the Muslims of Bengal was descended from immigrant Iranians, Afghans, Arabs, and Mughals, it might give the high and ancient families, descended from such immigrants, their due. In the course of his argument Fazl-i Rabbi showed a lack of fellowship for that minority of Bengal's Muslims which, he conceded, was descended from converts following lowly occupations."