What Really Happened in India during the Muslim Invasions?

What Really Happened in India during the Muslim Invasions?
Invaders at a very low level of civilisation and culture worth the
name, from Arabia and Afghanistan began invading India from the early
eighth century onwards. It is a recorded and evident fact that Islamic
invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered countless
sculptures and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu
kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women.
In the year 1527 the Muslim invader Babar came down from Ferghana in
Central Asia and attacked the Hindu King of Chittodgad, Rana Sangrama
Singh at Sikri and with the help of cannons and artillery (used in
India for the first time) overcame Rana Sangrama Singh and his
allies.
After this victory, Babar decided to spread terror among the
subjugated Hindu population. He despatched his general general, Mir
Baqi to attack the Hindu places of pilgrimage. Mir Baqi came to
Ayodhya in 1528 and destroyed the many temples that were there. He
gave special attention to the main and biggest temple in the town.
This was the temple which was built on the place where Samrat Shri
Ramachandra, an ancient King of India was born. Samrat Shri
Ramachandra was (and still is) revered by the devout among the Hindus
as a god.
, since she was abducted by the evil Ravana.
Now we come back to another evil person Babar, whose general Mir Baqi
destroyed this temple at Ayodhya, built by the Hindus to commemorate
their great king Samrat Ramchandra. Mir Baqi built a mosque at the
site of the destroyed temple. This was called the Babri Masjid
(Mosque), named after the invader who destroyed the temple and built a
mosque in its place.
Interestingly, the fact of the destruction of this temple and the
erection of a mosque in its place is also mentioned in the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
This story many Indians - and even many of the educated Indians - do
not know very well. Indian History books at School and College do not
tell the story in its true detail. Hence many Indians do not seem to
recognize that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed this and countless
other temples as also disturbed for eleven hundred years, the
historical evolution of what was till then a spiritually,
philosophically and materially advanced civilisation.
It is significant to note that the Islamic invaders did not just
destroy countless temples and constructions but also suppressed
cultural and religious practices; damaged the pristine vigour of Hindu
culture; prevented the intensification of Hindu culture, debilitating
it permanently; stopped the development of Hindu arts: ended the
creative impulse in all realms of thought and action; damaged the
people's cultural pride, disrupted the transmission of values and
wisdom, cultural practices and tradition from one generation to the
next; destroyed the proper historical evolution of Hindu kingdoms and
society; affected the acquisition of knowledge, research and
reflection and violated the moral basis of Hindu society.
Slaughter of the Civilian Hindu Population
The Muslim Swordsmen also slaughtered a lot of Hindus civilians away
from the battlefield. This was something that the Hindus were not used
to. They abducted countless Hindu women and held them as concubines in
Harems. Although pre-Islamic India was not exactly a zone of peace,
and there used to be warfare, but there was also a code of warfare
too. War took place from Sunrise up to Sunset
Warfare under the shadow of darkness was considered foul
In the battlefield, an adversary who laid down his arms was not to be
slaughtered.
No civilian population was ever killed.
This code of warfare was followed by the Hindus right up to the Muslim
invasions, and this was one reason for the successive Hindu defeats at
the hands of the Muslims who had no qualms for foul means during
warfare and even in peace times.
Needless to add that the Muslim invaders converted millions of Hindus
to Islam at the point of the Sword, they also massacred millions more
and had a practice of making a tower of severed enemy (Hindu) heads in
the main square of a town after its conquest. This gruesome experience
was not unique to India, but it was replicated with equal brutality at
all those places of our globe that were unfortunate enough to fall
into the path of the Muslim Jehadis

Seen above are the ruins of the Nalanda University burnt down by the
Muslim general Bakhtiyar Khilji in the year 1194 C.E.
The Nalanda University was another Hindu institution that faced the
brunt of Muslim brutality three hundred years before the destruction
of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
The defeat of the last Hindu Kings of North India - Prithviraj Chauhan
and Jaichandra Gahadawal (Rathore) in 1192 and 1194 C.E., respectively
by the Afghan raider, Mahmud Shahabuddin Ghori (Ghauri) opened up the
Gangetic plains to the ruthless invader where the Buddhist (and Hindu)
centres of learning were located. The destruction of monasteries and
the slaughter of monks that followed the headlong rush, of the Muslim
invaders down the Ganges, stilled the agony of this once glorious;
educational and monastic institution into the silence of death.
Before it was destroyed by the blind fury of the Muslim invaders, the
Nalanda University housed nine million manuscripts. It was the center
of education for scholars from all over Asia and Europe. Many Greek,
Persian and Chinese students studied here.
Its vivid descriptions in the chronicles of Huien Tsang, the Chinese
Buddhist scholar who visited Nalanda twelve hundred years ago... bring
the crumbling stones back to life again. It was this university that
was the cradle of ancient Hindu mathematics, astronomy, linguistics,
philosophy and theology.
Nothing remains today of this great ancient university.... except
ruins! The fanatical ferocity of the Muslim invaders made sure of
that. The blazing fires into which the Muslims soldiers threw the nine
million manuscripts, reduced them to ashes. Yet this vandalism and
hatred of the marauders could not destroy the immortal wisdom that lay
within. The spirit that went behind the creation of this university
could never be destroyed permanently.
The memory of that intellectual tradition, that was sought to be
destroyed by the Muslim Marauders, survives in the hearts of many
Indians. The living proof of this is the creation of this website that
tries to recollect the immortal wisdom of ancient India. A wisdom that
has never preached malice against other faiths, nor have the citizens
of this country ever indulged in a holy war against those of another
country. Indians have since ancient times won their way by persuasion
and never by the sword, nor have they ever used their position or
power to compel conformity to their precepts.
Only in ancient India did we have an emperor (Samrat Ashok Maurya) who
after a military victory - laid down his weapons and forswore
violence. There is no parallel to this attitude, the world over. It is
due to this deep sagacity that we could preserve our innate spirit of
humanness in face of the heart-rending tyranny of the Muslims - which
we had to live with, for eleven centuries at a stretch. And yet we
still survive as a wounded civilization to tell the tale of the kind
of culture we had before we were forced to shed our blood against the
sword of the Islamic Jihad.
Seen below is the Kutub Minar built by Kutub-ud-din Aibak. The Kutub
Minar is one of the earliest Islamic monuments in India. This Minar
was built from the columns of destroyed Hindu and Jain temples. It
stands at the site of Pithoragarh which was the capital of Prithiviraj
Chauhan, the last Hindu ruler of Delhi.
The damaged motifs in this picture show clear Hindu origins - a
testimony to the vandalism of the Muslim aggressors.

There are many such temples which had been converted into mosques like
the Bhoja Shala Mosque, the Gyan Vyapi Mosque, the Krishna Janmabhoomi
Idgah, apart from the now liberated Ram Janmabhoomi at Ayodhya (on
whose foundation the Babri Masjid was erected).
The total of such temples that were converted into Mosques during the
eleven centuries of Muslim Occupation of various parts of India, runs
to 3000 (Three Thousand).....
Similarities between Ram Janmabhoomi and Other similar Disputes - the
It may be noted here, that in spite of being in control of Jerusalem,
since 1967, the Jewish people have not yet demolished the Dome of the
Rock or the Haram Al Sharif as many would like them to do.

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