Sita ram goel the story of islamic imperialism in india

Presentation based on a book by

SITA RAM GOEL

The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India

The ancient past of India is so great that it simply cannot be over-glorified.

Gupta age was the Golden age of Hindu history when Hindu spirituality, art, literature, science and philosophy attained an acme which has not since been surpassed.

It was a period of greatness in which people can take pride and when its creativity attained a pinnacle.

Golden Period of Hinduism

Gupta Empire

Aryabhatt (AD 476 – 550)

One of the

greatest

mathematician-

astronomers of

the world.

Kalidas

Classical Sanskrit

poet and

dramatist, author

of Meghadūta,

Abhijñānashākunt

ala and

Kumārasambhava

.

The Mohammedan conquest of India was probably the bloodiest story in history.Will Durant

Members of the Islamic Jihad praying

Islamic Invaders in India

Mahmud Ghaznavi 971-1030AD

In 1000AD

Mahmud defeated

Raja Jaipal of

Kabul.

In 1004 AD he

dtormed Bhatiya

& plundered the

Palace.

In 1008 AD he

captured

Nagarkot.

"The blood of infidels flowed so copiously at Tanesar that the stream was discoloured, notwithstanding its purity, & people were unable to drink it.Tarikh-i-Yamini of Utbi, Mahmud’s secratory

Somnath was plundered by Ghaznavi and the fragments of the famous Sivalinga were carried to Ghazni.

Some fragments were turned into the steps of Jama Masjid in that city.

The rest were sent to Mecca, Medina, & Baghdad to be desecrated in the same manner.

Mohammed Ghuri 1160-1206 AD

He renewed

Islamic

imperialism in the

last quarter of the

12th century AD.

Buddhist complex

at Sarnath was

sacked at this

time, and the

Bhikshus were

slaughtered.

"In Benaras which is the centre of the country of Hind, they destroyed 1,000 temples & raised mosques on their foundations"Taj-ul-Masir, Hasan Nizami

In 1194 AD Ghuri’s Lieutenant Qutubuddin Aibak destroyed 27 Hindu temples at Delhi & built the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque with their debris.

On his return to Ajmer, Aibak destroyed the Sanskrit college of Visladeva, and laid the foundations of a mosque which came to be known as Adhai Din KA Jhonpra.

Adhai Din ka Jhonpara

The Slave (Mamluks) Sultans

Shamsuddin

Iltutmish who

succeeded Aibak

at Delhi invaded

Malwa in 1234

AD.

In spite of such

wanton cruelty,

Muslim power

continued to

decline.

After Mamluks,

Khiljis revived it

after 1290 AD.

Having destroyed the idol temple of Ujjain which had been built 600 years previously, & was called Mahakal, …, & brought certain images of cast molten brass & placed them on the ground in front of the doors of the mosques of old Delhi, & ordered the people of trample them under foot."Badauni

The Khaljis

Jalaluddin Khailji

He led an

expedition to

Ranthambore in

1291 AD.

He was murdered

ny his son-in-law

Alauddin in

1296AD.

He destroyed the Hindu temples at Jhain & broken idols were sent to Delhito be speresd before the gates of the Jama Masjid.

Alauddin Khalji

In 1298 AD, he

led an expedition

to Gujrat under

his generals

Ulugh Khan and

Nusrat Khan.

“Alauddin brought much booty to the Sultan & the idol which was the object of worship of the Hindus, he caused to be cast in front of the Badaun gate to be tramples upon by the people".Badauni

The Tughlaqs

By now most of the famous temples were destroyed except Orissa and Rajasthan

Firoz Shah Tughlaq

He led an

expedition to

Orissa 1n 1360

AD.

He destroyed the

temple of

Jagannth at Puri

& desecrated

many Hindu

Shrines.

"Allah who is the only true God & has no other emanation, endowed the king of Islam with the strength to destroy this ancient shrine…& after its destruction he ordered the image of Jagannath to be perforated & disgrace it by casting it down on the ground.”Sirat-i-Firoz-Shahi, dictated by Firuz shah Tughlaq

"nearly 100,000 men of Jajnagar had taken refuge with their women, children, kinsmen & relations… the island into a basin of blood by the massacre of the unbelievers"Sirat-i-Firoz-Shahi

"Women with babies & pregnant ladies were haltered, manacled, fettered & enchained, & pressed as slaves into service in the house of every soldier"Sirat-i-Firoz-Shahi

The Timur

Amir Timur

He stormed the

fort of Kator on

the border of

Kashmir.

He defeated

Tughlaqs in a

battle & entered

Delhi. There he

killed thousands

of Hindus.

"My great object in invading Hindustan had been to wage a religious war against the infidel Hindus…so that the army of Islam might gain something by plundering the wealth & valuables of the Hindus.Tuzk-i-timur, Amir Timur’s auto-biography

Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur

He styled himself

a Ghazi.

He destroyed

temple wherever

he saw them.

He has provided

details of his

repeated

massacre of the

infidels.

Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar

He made a good

start as a ghazi,

slayer of infidels.

In the disguise of

secularist

emperor he

demanded Hindu

princesses for his

harem, &

employed Hindu

warriors which

meant surrender

of Hindu honor &

prostitution of

Hindu Heroism.

Nuruddin Salim Jahangir

Jahangir was

primarily a

drunkard and a

sadist scoundrel.

He was too much

devoted to

women and the

wine-cup to care

much about Allah

and the Prophet.

Shihab-ud-din Muhammad Shah Jahan I

He demolished

many temples

and raised

Mosques in their

place.

He converted two

sons of Jujhar

Singh who were

of tender age to

Islam.

Aurangzeb

He started his

career as a but-

shikan (iconoclast).

He issued a farman

in Gujrat that

temples destroyed

by him cannot be

repaired.

Cow-slaughter at

temple site was a

safeguard against

Hindus rebuilding

it on the same

spot.

Logic of lack of perspective by NCERT

Wrong interpretation of Muslim rule in India

It is told that the Muslim rulers in India were not

a foreigners

It is recommended that "Muslim rulers cannot be identified as foreigners except for those who did not settle here.”

Mahmud Ghaznavi and Muhammad Ghuri are to be treated as foreign invaders simply because they launched there invasions from Afghanistan.

But not the Mamluks, the Khiljis, the Tughlaqs, the Lodis, the Suras, & the Mughals who brought the loot to Delhi from other parts o the country.

One has only to settle down in India in order to become Indian native even if the settler continues to despise everything Indian and admire every thing Arabic and Persian and Turkish, even if the settler continues to capture, sell & massacare of many Indians.

The Muslim rulers of India cannot be regarded as

native rulers simply because they settled down here.

We are told that both Hindu and Muslim

rulers were similarly and simultaneously struggling for self-aggrandizement.

The fact that Hindu princes sometimes joined hands with

Muslim princes to resist a new Muslim marauder from abroad, does not convert the Muslim pinces into patriots.

After the downfall of Mughal Empire, The Rajputs, the Jats, the Sikhs and the Marathas were rising up to reclaim their lost patrimony in their own homeland.

The Muslim chieftains were inviting other Islamic imperialists from across the border to come and rescue the earlier Islamic imperialist out of the chaos.

The British, the French and other foreign were taking advantage of the ineptitude of the native & Muslim princes in order to secure their strangleholds.

The Proper Perspective

The Hindu princes were fighting for their hearths and homes and national honour.

On the other hand, Muslim princes were only

trying to retain the imperialist power and privilege acquired by them on earlier occasions.

Facts of the recorded History by Muslim Historians. Language of records itself speaks that they took

immense pride in doing what they did.

Nature of Islam

The Arab record of Sindh

"…he (Muhammad bin Qasim) put 6,000 fighting men, who were in fort, to the sword …the other dependants were taken prisoners with their wives & children…among whom 30 were the daughters of the chiefs, & one of them was Rai Dahir’s sister’s daughter… Jaisiya. They were sent to Hajjaj.”Chachnama

"…when the head of Dahir, the women & the property all reached Hajjaj, he prostrated himself before Allah, offered thanks-giving and praises…Hajjaj then forwarded the head, the umbrellas, & wealth, & prisoners to Walid the Khalifa.”Chachnama

"when the Khalifa… had read the letter, he prised Allah the great. He sold some of those daughters of the chiefs, & some he granted as rewards.”Chachnama

"O my cousin! I received your life-inspiring letter… I learnt that the ways & rules you follow are confirmable to the Law (of Islam), except that you give protection to all, great & small, & make no distinction between enemy & friend. Allah says- give no quarter to infidels but cut their throats."Chachnama, Hajjaj’s letter to Muhammad Bin Qasim

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Difference between Hindu & Islamic code of war

Hindu princes fought many wars but they had observed some time- honored conventions sanctioned by the Shastras.They never molested Brahmins & BhikshusThe cows were not killedThe chastity of women was never violated.The non-combatant were never killed or

captured.The civil population was never plundered.

Hindu code of War

Sacrifice of honor for victory or material gain was deemed as worse than death.

Islamic imperialism came with different code- the Sunnah of Prophet.The cows, the Brahmins, the Bhikshus invited

their special attention in mass murders of non-combats.

After the victory, it required them to sack & burn down villages & town & the cities were plundered.

The temples & monasteries were destructed.Those whom they did not kill, they captured &

sold as slaves.

Islamic code of war

They did all this as mujahids (holly warriors) & ghazis (kafir-killers) in the service of Allah & his last prophet.

Islamic invaders wee not the first foreigners to come and settle down in India.

In earlier times, the Iranians, the Greeks, the Parthians, the Scythians, the Kushans, and the Huns had also invaded India, and settled down here.

But we have never had an Iranians, or a Greek, or a Parthian, or a Scythian, or a Kushan, or a Hun or a Mongolian minority, or culture, or problem.

It is not necessary for different racial groups to get assimilated, or for different cultures to get synthesised before they can live in peaceful co-existence.

It is only when a culture is exclusive, intolerant, and aggressive that peaceful coexistence runs into deep waters.

The Determinants of Hindu Defeats

None of the Hindu Saints questioned its claim as an alternative path of salvation.

None of them could see that the Kalimah- there is no god but Allah & Muhammad is his last prophet- could emanate only from a beastly rather than a religious consciousness.

A majority of the Muslims were Hindu converts who had been forced into the folds of Islam. Hindu society closed its doors to them.

Spiritual Faluire

Hindus failed to organize a collective effort to guard the frontiers of Bharatvarsha.

The sterile statecraft was centered on the politics of the mandalayoni, one’s neighbor was always an enemy, & the enemy of enemy always a friend.

Cutural faliure

Each of Hindu prince was busy with his immediate neighbors. An awareness of what was happening in neighboring lands was not needed by them.

Islam provided an ample opportunity to Hindu saints, philosophers & princes to understand the true character of Islam.

But neither Hindu saints, nor the philosophers, nor the princes could not draw any worthwhile conclusions about the character of Islam.

Mental failure

Hidus have learnt no lesson from history as evident from their slogan of Sarva-dharma-sambhava.And the Hindu-seclularists are perverting the historical record in order to prove that Islam never intended any harm to Hindus & hinduism.

Can a society which stands in daily need of certificates of good conduct from its sworn enemies

make any contribution to the greater good of mankind?

Let every Hindu search his heart, and seek the answer.