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Aurangzeb's Tryanny against the Sikhs and Hindus 

Since coming to power by imprisoning his father and killing his two brothers, Aurengzeb had been consolidating his power base. After ten years he now began to apply his power throughout the country. Aurengzeb was an orthodox Muslim who dreamed of purging India of all ‘infidels’ and converting it into a land of Islam. Aurengzeb had no tolerance for other religions and proceeded on a brutal campaign of repression. Famous Hindu temples throughout the country were demolished and mosques built in their place. Hindu idols were placed in the steps of mosques to be trodden on by the feet of Muslim pilgrims. Aurangzeb issued a number of harsh decrees. In 1665 he forbade Hindus to display illuminations at Diwali festivals. In 1668 he forbade Hindu Jatras, in 1671 he issued an order that only Muslims could be landlords of crown lands, and called upon provincial Viceroys to dismiss all Hindu clerks. In 1669 he issued a general order calling upon all governors of all provinces to destroy with a willing hand the schools and temples of the infidels; and they were told to put a stop to the teachings and practicing of idolatrous forms of worship. In 1674 lands held by Hindus in Gujarat, in religious grants were all confiscated.

In this climate of intolerance the viceroy of Kashmir Iftikhar Khan took to the task of forcibly converting the Hindu population to Islam by the sword. The Hindu Brahmin Pandits of Kashmir were among the most highly learned and orthodox of the Hindu leadership. Aurangzeb felt if they could be converted, the rest of the country would easily follow. He did not want to see the talik (holy mark on the forehead) or janaeu (sacred thread) on any of his subjects. Given this ultimatum, a large delegation of 500 Kashmiri Pandits decided to journey to Anandpur Sahib to seek the help of Guru Tegh Bahadur. 

This delegation was led by Pandit Kirpa Ram Datt (who would later on become the Sanskrit teacher of Guru Gobind Singh and eventually become a Khalsa and died fighting in the battle of Chamkaur). The Pandits met the Guru and explained their dire predicament to the Guru and requested the Guru to intercede on their behalf. As the Guru was pondering over the issue his nine year old son Gobind Rai walked into the room, noticing the serious and gloomy mood in the room the young Gobind asked his father what was happening. Guru Tegh Bahadur replied, “Unless a holy man lays down his head for the sake of the poor Brahmins, there is no hope for their escape from imperial tyranny.” Young Gobind replied, “Revered father, who would be better equipped for this than yourself?” Guru Tegh Bahadur hugged his son and wept for joy. “I was only worried about the future, for you are far too young”. “Leave me to God”, Gobind replied, “and accept the challenge of the Mughals.”

Guru Tegh Bahadur was subjected to many cruelties, he was kept in an iron cage and starved for many days. The Guru was made to watch as Bhai Mati Das the devoted Sikh was tied between two pillars and his body split in two by being sawn alive. Bhai Dyala was boiled alive in a cauldron of boiling water and Bhat Sati Das was wrapped in cotton wool and set on fire. The Guru bore these cruelties without flinching or showing any anger or distress. Finally on November 11, 1675 Guru Tegh Bahadur was publicly beheaded with the sword of the executioner as he prayed. The Gurus body was left in the dust as no one dared to pick up the body for fear of the emperors reprisal.

(source: http://www.sikhs.org/guru9.htm). Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi.

For more refer to Rajputs and Invasion of India Watch History of Ayodhya - videogoogle.com. (For more information on Islamic Imperialism and Hindu Genocide please visit this site In The Islamic Age - http://hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_link.html )
http://www.hindunet.org/alt_hindu/1995_Apr_2/msg00027.html)

Jawaharlal Nehru - that High Priest of Indian secularism wrote: "Babur was one of the most cultured and delightful person one could meet. There was no sectarianism in him, no religious bigotry, and he did not destroy as his ancestors used to."

This extravagant praise of Babur by our secualarists is vitiated by the observations of the great Guru Nanak, a contemporary and an eyewitness to Babur's invasion; in his Babur Vani, Nanak denounced him in no uncertain terms, giving a vivid account of Babur's vandalism in Aimanabad. 

(source: Babur in His Own Words - voi.org - please refer to The Baburnama Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor - translated by Wheeler M. Thacktson).  For more on Islamic Terrorism refer to chapter on Glimpses XV  

The plight of Hindus has been enshrined in the Granth Sahib:

"Having lifted Islam to the head, You have engulfed Hindustan in dread...Such cruelties have they inflicted, and yet Your mercy remains unmoved...Should the strong attack the strong, the heart does not burn. But when the strong crush the helpless, surely the One who was to protect them has to be called to account...O' Lord, these dogs have destroyed this diamond-like Hindustan, (so great is their terror that) no one asks after those who have been killed and yet You do not pay heed...."  (Mahla 1.36).

Marxists historian Satish Chandra author of Medieval India: from Sultanate to the Mughals continues the pattern of negationism in Indian history and  writes: 

"Thus, there was no atmosphere of confrontation between the Sikhs and Mughal rulers during this period, Nor was there any systematic persecution of the Hindus, and hence, no occasion for the Sikhs or any group or sect to stand forth as the champion of the Hindus against religious persecution. The occasional conflict between the Gurus and Mughal rulers was personal and political rather than religious."

(source: Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud - By Arun Shourie Harper Collins India ISBN 8172233558 p. 119-120).
Refer to Ignore this genocide, we're secular - By Rajeev Srinivasan - rediff.com).

"Aurangzeb's religious fanaticism plunged India again in chaos, famine and misery. He was foremost a Sunni Muslim, puritan, unbending: he had the koranic law applied in its strictest sense, cleansed from the court all musicians and poets, banned all Hindu religious festivals and imposed the very heavy "jizya" tax on unbelievers. He thus made once more the Mughal monarchy highly unpopular and everywhere revolts sprang-up such as the one of the Satnamis of Alwar. Aurangzeb has them massacred until the last one, leaving an entire region empty of human being."  He also battled against the Mahrathas, who spearheaded the a Hindu renaissance in India, he had Sambhaji, Shivaji's son and his Minister tortured scientifically for three weeks and after that they were cut in small pieces till they died on March 11, 1689.

(source:
Histoire de l' Inde - By Alain Danielou p. 278). 

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Taj Mahal - Indian Icon?

Long marginalized, Hindu nationalism is becoming mainstream in India. Indeed, more than 50 years after independence from Britain, many Indians invoke memories of past invasions so that future generations will not be too pacifistic.

"You can turn the other cheek for only so long," a female friend commented during my visit. "Sometimes you have to show the world that you are proud." Educated women seem to be on the forefront of the Hindu nationalistic movement today. Many now join peasants in their annual trek to the Kumbh Mela and other spiritual gatherings.  Unless future American foreign policy takes Hindu nationalism into account, violence in the subcontinent may well escalate, and might lead to a military, even a nuclear, conflict.

Standing in the visa line at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco recently, I noticed the large picture of the Taj Mahal covering an entire wall. "Isn't it ironic," I said to a friend, "that the one icon most people identify with India happens to be a Muslim tomb?"

"I wish they would use a picture of the Minakshi Temple instead," she replied. The temple is Hindu. 

(source: U.S. Policy Should Acknowledge Hindu Nationalism - By Sarita Sarvate). Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi.

Dr. Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934) principal to the Madras College of Art in the 1890s and left as principal of the Calcutta College of Art some 20 years later. His major ideas about Indian art theory are to be found in his two works, Indian Sculpture and Painting (1908) and, more important, The Ideals of Indian Art (1911). 

He has written about the civilizing influence of Hindu art on the invaders: 

"It is very important to remember also that from motives of self-interest, and not from any respect for art, these ferocious invaders, who massacred wholesale men, women, and children of the general population, usually spared the artisans and craftsmen,  and thus preserved for their own uses the art-traditions of the countries they ravaged and desolated. Skilled craftsmen were always the prizes of war, and when an uncivilized race like the Mongols triumphed over a highly cultivated one the craftsmen of the defeated became the teachers of the victors; this transplantation into a new soil brought new vigor into art, and was the beginning of great developments. When Timur the ancestor of the Indian Moghul dynasty, withdrew his hordes from northern India in 1398, after ravaging it with fire and sword, he took back with him as captives all the masons who had built that famous mosque of Ferozabad, in order that they might build one like it at Samarkhand. This Indian art fulfilled once more its civilizing mission, and when two and half centuries later Timur’s descendant…” 

The important part which craftsmen, more especially oriental craftsmen, have always played in the world’s history as missionaries of civilization, culture, and religion, is not generally recognized by bookmen. Even at the present day the Indian craftsmen deeply versed in his Silpa-sastras, learned in folk-lore and in national epic literature, though excluded from Indian universities – or rather, on that account – is often more highly cultured intellectually and spiritually than the average Indian graduate.  

It is curious that archaeologists, who are so concerned in trying to prove that nearly all Indian art was derived from the West, should seem to be only dimly aware of the immeasurably greater debt which European art and science owe to India, for they very rarely dwell upon it. From the time of the break-up of the Roman Empire, and even some centuries before, down to the days of the Renaissance, there was flowing into Europe, a continuous undercurrent of Indian science, philosophy, and art, brought by the art workers of the East."

(source: The Art Heritage of India - By Ernest Binfield Havell p. 77-78).  For more on Ernest Binfield Havell, refer to chapter on Quotes and Hindu Art.

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"The nation which delves deep into its past sees far into its future."

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Allah's Apostle said "I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy). - Bukhari 4:52:220  

(source: Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihad) - usc.edu). For information on Jihad refer to chapter on Glimpses XVIII

" Muslim rule should not attract any criticism. Mention of destruction of temples by Muslim invaders and rulers should not be mentioned.”    -  Circular, Boards of Secondary Education, India.

(source: The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India - By K S Lal).  Refer to Ignore this genocide, we're secular - By Rajeev Srinivasan - rediff.com). Refer to Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org.

"Islam is always presented as the one, progressive, emancipatory religion." 

(source: Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud - By Arun Shourie Harper Collins India  ISBN 8172233558  p. 71). 

Secular Politics Communal Agenda
Writing Politically correct Histories?

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The Indian history writing has never been an easy task because the beginning itself was motivated by the political considerations and religious constraints, rather than driven by the principles of historiography.  This necessarily encouraged historians to distort the history of India so as to fit in certain ideological and religious framework.  Entire history written by colonial, ideologically and politically motivated historians is witness to it and victim of it.  Since the independence of India a new approach has become fashionable i.e. writing of 'politically correct history'.  The entire history wiring has now been reduced to 'secular' history and 'communal' history.  In the process, the sacredness of primary evidence and importance of original sources have become a major casualty.  To push their agenda and to write 'politically correct history', historians have resorted to hiding away the facts, ignoring the facts.  Their sole agenda is to prove their viewpoint wedded to their political ideology and its usefulness in the immediate battle in politics.  This approach is as visible as daylight in the writings dealing with almost all periods of history, including the freedom struggle and the partition of the country.  The last sixty years history of independent India has been dealt with even more callously. 

(source: Secular Politics Communal Agenda: A History of Politics in India from 1860 to 1953 - By Prof Makkhan Lal). 

Hiding Historical truths in the name National integration?
An Insider's view on 'Indian History' -Exposing Communist Historians

"it is our duty not to sow the seeds of thorns in the minds of the growing children which will shape up as barriers for the national integration. Such thorns are mostly seen in the history lessons. Even we can find them occasionally in the language and social science lessons. We have to weed out such thorns. We have to include only such thoughts which will inculcate the concept of national integration in the minds of the children. This committee has this great responsibility on it." 

Other four members were nodding their heads respectfully. I said:

"Sir, I am not able to understand your words. Will you please explain with some illustrations? " 

"Gazni Mohammed had looted Somnath Temple, Aurangzeb built the mosques by demolishing the temples in Kashi and Mathura, he collected jizya - is it helpful to build a strong India under the present circumstances by conveying such useless facts, other than generating the hatred in the minds?" 

"But are not they the historical truths?"

Before teaching the lessons to be learnt from the history, should we not explain the historical truths? These ideals of hiding history are influenced by the politics. This trend will not last long. Whether they are minority or majority, if the education does not impart the intellectual power to face the truth and the resultant emotional maturity then such education is meaningless and also dangerous."

(source: An Insider's view on 'Indian History' -Exposing Communist Historians - haindavakeralam.org).

The  Self Loathing Leftists and Liberals of India

The second myth perpetrated by the self-loathers is that there is no such thing as Hindu India. 

There is a ‘composite’ culture that is Hindu and Muslim and that is that. Anyone who dares suggest that for many centuries before Islam came to our shores India was a Hindu country is instantly reviled as a rank ‘communalist’ of the Hindutva kind. It is important to note here that the self-loathing liberals have no problem describing a period of Indian history as Mughul and another period as British. The problem is ‘Hindu’ India because the premise that there was a country called Bharat that was entirely Hindu in ancient times is somehow offensive.

Modern India has given birth to modern myths. The most popular myth among ‘secular liberals’ in these times of Islamist terrorism is that the Indian state is so evil that the jihad is a valid response. You would not think that there could be an alliance between religious fanatics and those who believe they are intellectuals of liberal, left persuasion but in India there is. This bizarre alliance is so strong that Indian leftists have become the most ardent spokesmen (and women) of the Islamists. They find themselves in this extraordinary role because nothing motivates them more than their passionate loathing of India. May I suggest a cure. It is time for them to spend an extended holiday in Pakistan or Bangladesh to discover what countries in which history is myth are really like.

(source: Modern India’s modern myths - By Tavleen Singh - indianexpress.com). Refer to India After Gandhi: A History of the World's Largest Democracy - By Ramachandra Guha where he claims that India is "an unlikely democracy" and "an unnatural nation". 

The Marxists historians only continued the colonial-missionary project to deconstruct and weaken India. Their conclusions could be likened to 'old wine in new bottles'. If Indian academia was dominated by the left - i.e. the likes of Romila Thapar, the Indian Express, the Times of India, CNN-IBN, Pankaj Mishra, Somini Sengupta and Ramachandra Guha represent the 'liberal' response. The two are inter-related and are both offshoots of the colonial-era world view. There is an element of deracination involved. Many are intellectual heirs to Thomas Babington Macaulay

Negationism by Marxists Historians

Marxists in India have acted as the biggest apologist of Islamic jehad. Their intellectual henchmen have wasted millions of pen-hours to prove how Islam is an egalitarian and tolerant religion. 

M. N. (Manabendra Nath) Roy (1887-1954), has justified the depredations of Muslim invaders on Hindus in his book The Historical Role of Islam (1937) on economic ground. This book, an exercise in masochism, sets the pattern for Marxist historians of India.

He wrote in the preface:

“The phenomenal success of Islam”, “was primarily due to its revolutionary significance and its ability to lead the masses out of the hopeless situation created by the decay of antique civilizations not only of Greece and Rome but of Persia and China and of India .”

(source: The Marxists' Islamic phobia - By Priyadarsi Dutta). Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam – By Koenraad Elst

Refer to Islamic Jihad in the chapter on Glimpses XXI

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Rampant Negationism : The Indian Marxists

One should know that there is a strange alliance between the Indian communist parties and the Muslim fanatics. Marxism dehumanizes people to impersonal pawns, or “forces” in the hands of god History. The Marxist historians had the field all to themselves, and they set to work to “decommunalize” Indian history-writing, ie. To erase the importance of Islam as a factor of conflict. 

In Communalism and the Writing of Indian History, Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia and Bipin Chandra, professors at Jawaharlal Nehru University  - JNU, the Mecca of “secularism” and negationism) in Delhi, write that the interpretation of medieval wars as religious conflicts is in fact a back-projection of contemporary religious conflict artificially created for political purposes. They explicitly deny that before the modern period there existed such a thing as Hindu identity or Muslim identity. Conflicts could not have been between Hindus and Muslims, only between rulers or classes who incidentally also belonged to one religious community or the other. It is of course a fact that in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw the Nazis employed Jewish guards: this does not disapprove Nazi-Jewish enemity. 

Time and again, the negationist historians (including Bipan Chandra, K N Panikkar, S. Gopal, Romila Thapar, Harnans Mukhia, Irfan Habib, R S Sharma, Gyandra Pandey, Sushil Srivastava, Asghar Ali Engineer, as well as the Muslim fundamentalist politician Syed Shahabuddin) have asserted that the tradition according to which the Babri mosque forcibly replaced a Hindu temple, is nothing but a myth purposely created in the 19th century. To explain the popularity of the myth even among local Muslim writers in the 19th century, most of them say it was a deliberate British concoction, spread in the interest of the “divide and rule” policy. They affirm this conspiracy scenario without anyhow citing, from the copious archives which the British administration in India has left behind, any kind of positive indication for their convenient hypothesis – let alone the rigorous proof on which a serious historian would base his assertions, especially in such controversial questions. 

Personal Attacks on Opponents 

In December 1990, the leading JNU historians and several allied scholars, followed by the herd of secularist pen-pushers in the Indian press, have tried to raise suspicions against the professional honesty of Prof. B B Lal and Dr. S P Gupta, the archaeologists who have unearthed evidence for the existence of a Hindu temple at the Babri Masjid site. Rebuttals by these two and a number of other archaeologists have received minimal coverage in the secularist press. 

I have been thinking of the behavior of our Marxist friends and historians, their unprovoked slander campaign against many collegues, hurling abuses and convicting anyone and everyone even before the charges could be framed and proved. Their latest target is so sober and highly respected a person as Prof. B B Lal, who has all his life never involved himself in petty politics or in the groupism so favorite a sport among the so-called Marxist intellectuals of this country. But then slander is a well-practised art among the Marxists.” 

(source: Negationism in India - By Koenraad Elst   p. 37 - 41).

Refer to Eminent Historian Displeased with The Ayodhya Verdict – By Dr. Koenraad Elst and Media Manipulation - By Sandeep and Ayodhya: Has India really moved on? – By Amitabh Tripathi and Verdict leaves ‘secular intellectuals’ aghast – By Swapan Dasgupta and Ram Ki Nagari, once again – By Kanchan Gupta

"Whites appoint Indian proxies to let them pull strings from behind the scenes, but through such intermediaries, they impose their epistemologies, institutional controls, awards and rewards, all in the name of universal thought. "

Refer to Dialog on Whiteness Studies - By Rajiv Malhotra - sulekha.com.  Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com. Note: Romilla Thapar received the American kluge prize for study of humanity - She is credited with creating a new pluralistic view of the Indian civilization?  Refer to the chapter on Aryan Invasion Theory.

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Thomas George Percival Spear (1901 - 1982) co-author with Romila Thapar of the prestigious A History of India (Penguin) writes:

"Aurangzeb's supposed intolerance is little more than a hostile legend based on isolated acts such as the erection of a mosque on a temple site in Benares .' 

L'histoire de l'Inde moderne (Fayard), the French equivalent of Percival Spear's history of India , praises Aurangzeb and says, 'He has been maligned by Hindu fundamentalists'.

Since then six generations of Marxist historians have done the same and betrayed their allegiance to truth. Very few people know for instance that Aurangzeb banned any kind of music and that painters had to flee his wrath and take refuge with some of Rajasthan's friendly maharajahs.

(source: The truth about Aurangzeb - By Francois Gautier - rediff.com).

Muslims and Indian Communists  - Strange Allies?

Marxist historians, who maintained their hegemony in authoring the school textbooks during long period of Congress rule, masked the barbaric role of Muslim invaders in India and were reticent to portray their bigotry against the Hindus. They preferred to paint destruction of Hindu temples more for economic motivation than iconoclasm. Portraying the exclusivist and totalitarian ideology of communalist Muslims as ideology for social equality they feel proud in tarnishing the cultural tradition of this country. It became a ritual for them to denounce Hindu nationalists as major cause behind any communal riot. They however, closed their eyes when there was a nation level war cry against Supreme Court verdict in Shahbano case.     

(source: Muslims and Indian Communists  - Strange Allies? - By R. Upadhyay  - saag.com). 

Note: Dismissing the very credible evidence of the court chroniclers amounts to holocaust denial. This is not the only a case of anti-Hindu bias. Jawaharlal Nehru was absurd enough to think that India's 'communal harmony' should be based on falsifying history. 

An important part of the Congress view of the Hindu-Muslim conflict was that it had been created (rather than just exploited) by the British. 

Sri Aurobindo ridiculed this as escapist myth-making. When a disciple said that: '"it is because of the British divide-and-rule policy that we (Hindus and Muslims) can't unite" 

Aurobindo replied:

"Nonsense! Was there unity in India before the British rule?"

(source: India's Rebirth - By Sri Aurobindo Publisher: Mira Aditi ISBN 81-85137-27-7  p. 221 and Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - By Koenraad Elst  p. 331 - 332). Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi.

Swami Vivekananda wrote: "Mohammedans talk of universal brotherhood, but what comes out of that, in reality? Why, anybody who is not a Mohammedan will not be admitted into the brotherhood; he will more likely have his throat cut."

(source: Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - volume 2 p. 380 and Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - By Koenraad Elst  p. 331 - 332). Refer to Ignore this genocide, we're secular - By Rajeev Srinivasan - rediff.com). Also refer to Blasts in Varanasi

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Tipu Sultan: massacred of 700 Iyengar men, women & kids

Mandyam Iyengars do not celebrate Diwali; they observe it as a Dark Day.

It was on this day over 200 years ago that Tipu Sultan (1750 - 1799) herded nearly 700 men and women belonging to this community and put them to a cruel death, according to two Mysore-based scholars who have more than academic interest in this particular aspect of history.

Iyengars who belong to to Bharadwaja gotra, the lineage of the Pradhan, stay away from Deepavali celebrations because it was on the same day that Tipu Sultan killed their ancestors. 

Every child of those families is told about the bloody event that day, the paper points out.

The heroic role that dowager queen Rani Lakshammanni and her relentless battle for the restoration of the throne during the period of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, is not adequately mentioned (except in the three-volume History of Mysore by Hayavadana Rao). 

"It is a pity that her persistent effort and courage despite being confined behind the curtains of the royal palace and constantly threatened by the mercurial temper of Tipu Sultan in bringing about the promise that she had made to her husband Immadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar (1734 - 1766), finds scant mention by the historians. 

We do not even have an authentic biography of this grand dame of Mysore who lived most of her life under house arrest," it says.  

Mysore Royalty - The Wodeyars.

Tipu Sultan: massacre of 700 Iyengar men, women & kids.

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It was in 1790's that Tipu Sultan, on coming to know of the agreement between Gen. Harris, the then Governor of Madras, and Tirumaliyengar, herded the latter's relatives for decimation. "There is no mention of this in any history book, but 200 years after the horror, the Mandyam Iyengars do not celebrate the festival."

"It somehow slips in to a mode where the conquerors are heaped with all the encomiums and the vanquished is made to shoulder all the opprobrium the historians see and create," the couple says. Questioning the stand of noted historian Romilla Thapar that history has to be read in between the lines (of inscriptions), it deprecates the tendency to brush aside folklore and tradition, "the backbone of Indian history".

(source: Did Tipu massacre 700 Iyengar men, women & kids? - By PM Vijendra Rao hvk.org). Refer to Tipu Sultan--Villain or Hero? - edited by Sita Ram Goel - indiastar.com  

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In spite of these atrocities, Percival Spear, co-author (with Romila Thapar, is the foremost Marxist scholar of ancient Indian history) of Penguin History of India, writes: 

"Aurangzeb's supposed intolerance is little more than a hostile legend based on isolated acts such as the erection of the mosque on a temple site in Benares.She has called the muslim invaders as mere "visitors".

B. R. Ambedkar who became a Buddhist wrote:  "Such was the slaughter of the Buddhist priesthood perpetrated by the Islamic invaders. The axe was struck at the very root. For by killing the Buddhist priesthood, Islam killed Buddhism. This was the greatest disaster that befell the religion of the Buddha in India. " Today it is impossible to find this quotation of the Indian history textbooks.

(source: The decline and fall of Buddhism - Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Volume III Government of Maharashtra. 1987. p. 229-38).

Yet, these Marxist historians hawk their party line. There is no such thing as Hinduism. it is Brahminism; Brahminism equals intolerance and persecution - Buddhists, Jains, and of course the Shudras; Islam equals peace, equality, brotherhood, the ascent towards monotheism; the Left means equality, freedom and everything nice; Revolution means the rule of Workers and Peasants.........

(source: Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud - By Arun Shourie Harper Collins India ISBN 8172233558 p. 87). Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi.

To present India's medieval history impartially (as the British did) would be deemed "communal". Babasaheb Ambedkar did not mince his words writing about the extermination of Buddhism by the sword of Islam in 12th and 13th century (The Decline and Fall of Buddhism; Vol III, Writings and Speeches). Islamic chroniclers have themselves gleefully recorded such works of depredation as acts of great virtue in the extermination of jahilya (infidel tradition). But Leftist historians claim that Buddhist shrines were destroyed and pillaged by Hindus, and Islam had no role in it.

If the Marxists are right, then Ambedkar, who himself became a Buddhist, must be "communal"! The truth is that the Buddha, himself a Hindu, received patronage from Hindu kings. In pre-Islamic era, Buddhism not only flourished in India but sailed to South-East Asia, where it still survives in Thailand, Myanmar Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. But "Hindu atrocities" must be invented and Islamic atrocities must be overlooked in order to defend "secularism".

(source: 
Secular objective sans objectivity - By Balbir K Punj - dailypioneer.com - July 1 2004). Refer to Ignore this genocide, we're secular - By Rajeev Srinivasan - rediff.com).  Also refer to Blasts in Varanasi

Soviet historians, K. Antonova, G. Bongard-levin, and G. Kotovsky write:

"This cold calculating politician was a fanatical Moslem and his victory over Dara Shukoh signified the advent of a policy, which stripped Hindus of their rights..." Between 1665 and 1669, he gave orders for Hindu temples to be destroyed and for mosques to be erected from their debris. Hindus were not allowed to wear any marks of honor, to ride elephants etc.." "The heaviest burden of all was the poll-tax on non-Moslems, or jizya, introduced in 1679..."

(source: A History of India - By K. Antonova, G. Bongard-Levin, and G. Kotovsky  - Moscow, Volume I and II 1973 p. 255).

"Several of the NCERT’s new history books have since come out, and some of them have been badly received. there has been intense pressure on Left historians to condemn this otherwise accurate narrative, as it deviates too sharply from their own perspective. Hence, under the aegis of the Left-dominated Indian History Congress (IHC), an Index of Errors of all the new books has been compiled. The section on medieval India is presented under the signature of Irfan Habib."

"Medieval slave trade in India rivals early Arab and later European trade from Africa. It would be unjust to negate this atrocity from the annals of history. The IHC claims this flourishing market in human beings declined under the Mughals. But noted historian Dirk Kolff - Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of a Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450-1850, Cambridge University Press, 1990) is fairly emphatic: 

“There is irrefutable evidence for the enslavement and deportation of thousands and thousands of peasants by the Mughal aristocracy. Many of these were sold to countries to the west of India. The trade had flourished before 1400, when Multan was a considerable slave market, but it was continued after that, with Kabul as the main entrepot” (p 10); “In these deportations Jehangir also had a share” (p 11); and “the Emperor Shahjehan also used to have offenders against the state transported beyond the river Indus to be ‘exchanged for Pathan dogs’.” He concludes: “Anyway, it is clear that, in the 1660s, Indian supply of and Persian demand for slaves was still considerable.”

(source: Why such denial? - By Sandhya Jain - hindustantimes.com). 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931 - ) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

"It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust

It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ"  

(source: Famous Quotes - crusadewatch.org). Watch the Bloody History of Communism - videogoogle.com.

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) famous astrophysicist, says:

“In Italy , the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. 

The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.”

(source: The Demon-Haunted World - By Carl Sagan).

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In Progressive Paradise of West Bengal

In spite of Islamic Onslaught and British Imperialism, our children in India should read what the West Bengal's Leftist government is teaching kids. Refer to an extract from the, textbook for Class V.  

“Islam and Christianity are the only religions which treated man with honor and equality..."

(source:
Does Indian history need to be rewritten? Times of India 12/02/01 http://www.hvk.org/articles/1206/69.html).  (Watch the Bloody History of Communism - videogoogle.com). 

Claude Alvares has written: "The English establishment themselves as a separate ruling caste; like other Indian castes, they did not inter-marry or eat with the lower (native) caste. Their children were shipped off to public schools in England, while they themselves kept to their clubs and bungalows in special suburbs known as cantonments and civil lines."

(source: Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day - By Claude Alvares p. 191).

Swami Vivekananda remains a great Hindu thinker and seer. He has written: "Mohammedans talk of universal brotherhood, but what comes out of that in reality? Why, anybody who is not a Mohammedan will not be admitted into the brotherhood; he will more likely have his own throat cut. Christians talk of universal brotherhood; but anyone who is not a Christian must go to that place where he will be eternally barbecued." 

(source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume II, page 380).

Koenraad Elst writes: "There is nothing intrinsically equalitarian in monotheistic religions like Islam and Christianity. The case of sharp inequality fostered by Islam, ...the champion of slavery and forcing of Kafirs or Infidels into slavery was a common practice...while lower castes are continuously being fed anti-Brahmin "history." "In Christianity, stratified feudal society was sanctified by Christian theology. The Christian concern for social action is a recent invention, made necessary by the finding that in Europe the working class was attracted by atheist socialism..."

(source: Ayodhya and After - By Koenraad Elst Voice of India SKU: INBK2650 p.109-110). Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi. Refer to Was There an Islamic "Genocide" of Hindus? - By Koenraad Elst.

It became a standard practice to destroy an Indian, Persian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Jewish or Christian temple and build a mosque on its ruins. This was always interpreted by historians as a kind of one-upmanship; a way to demonstrate the superiority of Islam and humiliate the defeated. Koenraad Elst in his recent book, Negationism in India, writes: "In all the lands it conquered, Islam has replaced indigenous places of worship with mosques. In Iran, there are no ancient Zoroastrians or Manichean shrines left. In Central Asia, there are no Buddhist temples left. Similarly, in India (except the far South where Islam penetrated rather late) there are practically no Hindu temples that have survived the Muslim period (over 10,000 destroyed). But there are thousands of mosques built on the foundations of Hindu temples (for example, the Ayodhya temple)." In my opinion, this Islamic behavior was more than an exhibition of cruel superiority. It was based on the pagan belief that they would acquire the power of the defeated peoples by absorbing their Holy Places and making them theirs."

(source: Israel’s Sacred Places - By Bernard J. Shapiro - Arutz Sheva). For more on Islamic Terrorism refer to chapter on Glimpses XV. Refer to Ignore this genocide, we're secular - By Rajeev Srinivasan - rediff.com).

In Christianity, The Believing Christians are superior to Pagans or Heathens. This super caste system of Christianity does not leave pagan humans even after they die, because 'Pagans' are condemned to everlasting hell.

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