What Really Happened in India (Bharat) during the Muslim Invasions?

What Really Happened in India (Bharat) 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.

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 civilization.

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

§ The Nalanda University burnt down by the Muslim general Bakhtiyar Khilji in the year 1194 C.E, three hundred years before the destruction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya. It was this university that was the cradle of ancient Hindu mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, philosophy and theology.

§ The Kutub Minar built by Kutub-ud-din Aibak 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).