THE BCCI AFFAIR THE ORIGIN AND EARLY YEARS OF BCCI BCCI's
conception, growth, collapse, and criminality are inextricably
linked with the personality of its founder, Agha Hasan Abedi,
who in turn was a product of the unique conditions of Muslim
India in the final period of British rule prior to partition,
and the first years after partition. These were years of
fundamental change in the region, involving the creation of an
entire new ruling class in both Hindu and Moslem India to
replace the departing British foreign service. While the period
created special opportunities for a newly-emerging professional
class in both countries, Abedi and many of the others who later
became prominent in Pakistani banking made up a special class.
In India, they had grown up as members of a minority, of
ineradicably lower status than similarly educated Hindus,
despite their university educations. Following partition, these
Indian Moslems migrated northward to the new Muslim state of
Pakistan, but remained forever regarded as ou