Bihari Muslims: what Wikipedia removed
The October 2023 text recorded the community’s persecution “due to their collaboration” in “perpetrating the 1971 Bangladesh genocide”. Genocide is gone from the entire article.
The word “genocide” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| genocide | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The 1971 Bangladesh genocide, removed. The scrubbing of documented atrocity is not confined to Israel’s story.
- The community’s definition was reworded.
- A congressional report citation, dropped with the passage it supported.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2024-10-06, Ixudi, edit summary: “not appropriate for lead” (see the diff)
- 2024-10-06, Ixudi, edit summary: “not appropriate for lead” (see the diff)
- 2024-10-06, Ixudi, edit summary: “not appropriate for lead” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 366966105):
Bihari Muslims ( Template:Lang-ur ) are people originating from the Indian State of Bihar , who practice Islam as their religion. Bihari Muslims mainly practice Sunni Islam of the Hanafi fiqh , though a small Shia Ithna ‘ashariyah minority exists. According to the 2001 census of India , they numbered 13,722,048, or about 17% of the state’s population. The Bihari Muslims have migrated and settled in Pakistan and Bangladesh . In addition, the Bihari Muslims, along with other Biharis, have been migrating and settling in properous Indian states of Punjab , Haryana and Maharashtra . ^ People of India Bihar Volume XVI Part One edited by S Gopal & Hetukar Jha Seagull Books
2026 (revision 1362393024):
Adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Biharis Bihari Muslims are those adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Biharis . They are geographically native to the region comprising the Bihar state of India , although there are significantly large communities of Bihari Muslims living elsewhere in the Indian subcontinent due to the partition of India in 1947, which prompted the community to migrate en masse from Bihar to the dominion of Pakistan (both West Pakistan and East Pakistan ). Bihari Muslims make up a significant minority in Pakistan under the diverse community of Muhajirs ( lit. ’ migrants ’ ), and larg…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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