"It would be nice to say that the Hindus in Bangladesh are prospering but it is the reverse which has happened. There were 28% Hindus in 1941, 10.5% in 1991, and less than 9% today. Pogroms, burning of temples (specially after Ayodhya) have all ensured that the Hindus flee Bangladesh."

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Francois Gautier, Cited in Roy, A Suppressed Chapter in History, 318–19, Roy, Tathagata. A Suppressed Chapter in History: The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh. New Delhi: Bookwell Publications, 2007 quoted from quoted in Nani Gopal Mahanta - Citizenship Debate over NRC and CAA_ Assam and the Politics of History (2021, SAGE Publications India)