Letās take a look at the other theses put forth by X.T.M in this piece.
His second thesis is that āThe Muslim League won. Then most Muslims stayed.ā
How should we understand this? It could be said the sons of Abraham ā and perhaps especially those in the line of Ishmael ā are meant to stay untethered from bonds to the land upon which they live, seeing as they are (at least supposedly), nomads from the sand? I think the best description of the Islamic invaders of India comes from Deleuze & Guattariās Anti-Oedipus (1972/1977). Speaking of the āBarbarian Despotic Machineā which supplants the āPrimitive Territorial Machineā (which I take to be synonymous with localized Hindu communities, even if it isnāt a perfect fit):
āThe founding of the despotic machine or the barbarian socius can be summarized in the following way: a new alliance and direct filiation. The despot challenges the lateral alliances and the extended filiations of the old community. He imposes a new alliance system and places himself in direct filiation with the deity: the people must follow. A leap into a new alliance, a break with the ancient filiationāthis is expressed in a strange machine, or rather a machine of the strange whose locus is the desertā¦ā (p. 192)