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During the Partition of India the entire Punjabi Muslim community migrated across the new border to Pakistan, but in Bengal a large number of Muslims remained in India’s West Bengal and a large number of Hindus remained in East Pakistan (Bangladesh today) — why?
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Subutai came from non-pastoral forest tribe that herded reindeers and didn't teach their children to ride a horse or use a bow, unlike their steppe cousins. How did he become the most successful general in the Mongol army?
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