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How India ’s Intellectuals Spread Lies

“India has been a wounded civilization because of Islamic violence: Pakistanis know this; indeed they revel in it. It is only Indian Nehruvians like Romila Thapar who pretend that Islamic rule was benevolent. We should face facts: Islamic rule in India was at least as catastrophic as the later Christian rule. The Christians created massive poverty in what was a most prosperous country; the Muslims created a terrorized civilization out of what was the most creative culture that ever existed.”

(source: OutlookIndia.com, 15 November 1999 and Akbar - Hindupedia.com and  http://www.indpride.com/vsnaipaul.html). Refer to Religion of Peace , Islam Watch and In the Name of Allah.  Refer to Awards diplomacy of the Whites - indianrealist.com. Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam – By Koenraad Elst. Refer to Fraudulent history of India - By Dr. Subramanian Swamy - indianrealist.com and Falsification of Chronology in India’s History - By Dr. Subramaniam Swamy - indiarealist.com 

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

Romila Thapar says, “The problem began with the British periodising Indian history into Hindu, Muslim and British and maintaining that Hindus and Muslims were always antagonistic towards each other. “This cannot be sustained historically”

However, in Timur’s memoir, Tuzk-e-Taimuriâ��.

“In a short space of time all the people in the Delhi fort were put to the sword, and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all the goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year had been stored in the fort became the spoil of my soldiers. They set fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the buildings and the fort to the ground….All these infidel Hindus were slain, their women and children, and their property and goods became the spoil of the victors. I proclaimed throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death.”

(source: Romila Thapar's BS - By Seriously Sandeep and Interview with Romila Thapar - varnam.org). Refer to Islamic Jihad in the chapter on Glimpses XXI

 

Fraudulent and Imperialist history of India

In this Imperial history, India is portrayed as the land “conquered” first by the ‘Dravidians’, then by the ‘Aryans’, later by Muslims, and finally by the British. Otherwise, everything else is mythical. Our history books today exhibit this obsession with foreign rule. 

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Akbar, The Great?  His title - Ghazi, slayer of the infidels (Hindus)

Even though the Mughal rule from Akbar to Aurangzeb is about 150 years, which is much shorter than the 350 year rule of the Vijayanagaram empire, the history books of today hardly take notice of the latter.  In fact the territory under Krishna Devaraya’s rule was much larger than Akbar’s, and yet it is the latter who is called “the Great”.

Sixty years of feel-good Negationism?

Our Indian History books lyrically hail dead men like Akbar as Akbar the Great. But history is proof that on February 24, 1568, Akbar (the great) called for a pogrom and brutal massacre of 30,000 defenseless Hindus of Chittorgarh, Rajasthan who had refused to convert to Islam.

In fact according to the biography by Vincent Smith, Akbar enjoyed 'a harem consisting of 5000 women, mostly Hindus'.

(source: Fraudulent history of India - By Dr. Subramanian Swamy - indianrealist.com and Falsification of Chronology in India’s History - By Dr. Subramaniam Swamy - indiarealist.com and Putting Jodha Akbar on trial - IBOSNetwork.com January 25, 2008).  Refer to Akbar - Hindupedia.com

Surely, Aurangzeb, we are told, was not the best emperor. The finest emperor was clean-shaven Akbar the Great (1556-1605). However, it is a little inconvenient fact that the title Akbar himself wore was 'ghazi' (killer of Hindu infidels). At the second battle of Panipat (1556) he had presumably beheaded (or was it Bairam Khan on his behalf?) Hemu, or Hemchandra Vikramaditya Bhargava, the great Brahmin military general from Rajasthan.

Akbar won greater claims to ghazi-hood after the capture of Chittor in February 1568, when he ordered a general massacre of Hindus in which an estimated 30,000 perished. A pyramid of severed heads was raised. And Chittor did not prove for 'secular' Akbar any Kalinga for Asoka. But this February, we are celebrating the 'immortal' love of Jodhaa-Akbar as a Valentine's Day-era makeover! 

While in pre-independent India we had Rana Pratap as our hero, in independent India his tormentor, Akbar, is our reel-model. Sixty years of feel-good negationism! The Rajput Karni Sena's agitation is thus momentous. It's the shock therapy Hindus need to come out of 'secular' self-hypnosis. Now, can Rajput resurgence of 2008 replicate a 1708?

(source: Jodhpur then, Jodhaa now - By Priyadarsi Dutta daily pioneer.com Edit 2/20/08).

Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com and Watch And the world remained silent – By Ashok Pandit. Watch Interview with the Late Anwar Shaikh - Islamic can not exist with other religions  and Hindu brothers dont have the guts

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Arun Shourie has written in his book how India's Eminent historians have portrayed Islam:

"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). Refer to Ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh - muktomona.com.  

Blissful Ignorance of Muslim colonization of India

"Completely uninformed about (and stubbornly resistant to any informed discussion of) the motivating Islamic ideology for the Mumbai attacks, the media "meta-narrative," repeated ad nauseum, is also oblivious to the living historical legacy of jihad on the Indian subcontinent."

 

Islamic Jehadis today still dream of conquering India

India's so called Eminent historians portray Islam: "As a  peaceful, progressive, and emancipatory religion." 

Refer to Islamists want to conquer India and Watch Video - Ghazwa-e-Hind - "The Conquest of India..InshAllah we know its destined for us Muslims...." and Ghazwa e hind-demise of India – Rise of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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"Despite the brutal Islamization of India -- dating back to the initial 8th century Arab Muslim jihad ravages, and the subsequent more extensive campaigns under the Ghaznavids (Islamized Turkic nomads who annihilated the indigenous Hindus of Afghanistan by the mid-9th century), through the Delhi Sultanate period (1000-1525 C.E.) during which an estimated 70-80 million Hindus were slaughtered -- due largely to bowdlerized educational and public discourse on Islam, even many modern Hindus remain ignorant of both this history, and the Koranic injunctions which inspired the brutal waves of jihad conquest, and Muslim colonization of India."

(source: Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai - By Andrew G Bostom - americanthinker.com).

 

A Millennium of Jihad and Dhimmitude on the Indian Subcontinent

Hindus of Western Deccan.

Jihad's evil fury - From Jammu to Jaipur, from Delhi to Bangalore, from Gujarat to Varanasi, today's serial Islamic terrorist bombing has the same cultural pattern of centuries ago. 

Yet our historically challenged Marxist historians like Romila Thapar and others fail to link this lethal cultural phenomenon. Tragically today India 'self-proclaimed and noisy' secularists are quite oblivious to this destructive pattern.  

(image source: History of India - By A V Williams Jackson). 

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Alain Danielou (1907-1994) son of French aristocracy, author of numerous books on philosophy, religion, history and arts of India, in his book, Histoire de l' Inde writes: 

"From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of  murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of 'a holy war' of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races." Mahmoud Ghazni, continues Danielou, "was an early example of Muslim ruthlessness,
burning in 1018 of the temples of Mathura, razing Kanauj to the ground and destroying the famous temple of Somnath, sacred to all Hindus. His successors were as ruthless as Ghazni: 103 temples in the holy city of Benaras were razed to the ground, its marvelous temples destroyed, its magnificent palaces wrecked." Indeed, the Muslim policy vis a vis India, concludes Danielou, seems to have been a conscious systematic destruction of everything that was beautiful, holy, refined."

(source: Histoire de l' Inde - By Alain Danielou p. 222 or A Brief History of India). For more on Alain Danielou refer to chapter on Quotes. For more on destruction of Hindu temples, refer to Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them : (A Preliminary Survey) - By Arun Shourie and For more refer to Hindu Holocaust Museum. Refer to Ignore this genocide, we're secular - By Rajeev Srinivasan - rediff.com). Also refer to Blasts in Varanasi

Islamic imperialism came with a different code--the Sunnah of the Prophet. It required its warriors to fall upon the helpless civil population after a decisive victory had been won on the battlefield. It required them to sack and burn down villages and towns after the defenders had died fighting or had fled. The cows, the Brahmins, and the Bhikshus invited their special attention in mass murders of non-combatants. The temples and monasteries were their special targets in an orgy of pillage and arson. Those whom they did not kill, they captured and sold as slaves. The magnitude of the booty looted even from the bodies of the dead, was a measure of the success of a military mission. And they did all this as mujahids (holy warriors) and ghazls (kafir-killers) in the service of Allah and his Last Prophet.

Hindus found it very hard to understand the psychology of this new invader. For the first time in their history, Hindus were witnessing a scene, which was described by Kanhadade Prabandha (1456 AD) in the following words

"The conquering army burnt villages, devastated the land, plundered people's wealth, took Brahmins and children and women of all classes captive, flogged with thongs of raw hide, carried a moving prison with it, and converted the prisoners into obsequious Turks."

That was written in remembrance of Alauddin Khalji's invasion of Gujarat in the year l298 AD. But the gruesome game had started three centuries earlier when Mahmud Ghaznavi had vowed to invade India every year in order to destroy idolatry, kill the kafirs, capture prisoners of war, and plunder vast wealth for which India was well-known.

(source: The Magnitude of Islamic Invasion). Also refer to India: Putting the Fallouts of the Islamic Invasion and British Occupation in Perspective - by Alamgir Hussain - islam-watch.org. Refer to Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims - By Alamgir Hussain - islam-watch.org. Refer to Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org.

 


Reused doubled Hindu temple pillars, Quwwat al-Islam (Might of Islam) Mosque, Delhi A.D. 1192-6.

According to British Historian John Keay in the book, History of India, 27 previous Hindu and Jain temples were destroyed and their materials reused to construct the Kutub Minar.

(image source: Indian Art - By Vidya Dehejia  p. 249).

Watch the carved Hindu columns of Kutb Minar video and Watch History of Ayodhya - videogoogle.com. Watch Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West and a documentary on Hindu temples, refer to The Lost Temples of IndiaRefer to Islamic Jihad in the chapter on Glimpses XXI and India, Jihad’s Permanent Battleground - By Srdja Trifkovic and The Legacy of Jihad in India - By Andrew G Bostom - Americanthinker.com. Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam – By Koenraad Elst . Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com. Refer to An Architect looks at the Taj Mahal Legend - By Marvin Mills, AIA and Taj Mahal an analysis of a great deception – By V S Godbole. Refer to Why did Aurangzeb Demolish the Kashi Vishvanath? - By Koenraad Elst. . Watch video - About Islam – Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist

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

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Hindu Kush Mountains  - " Slaughter of the Hindus "

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet, author, philosopher, Nobel prize laureate. Tagore was deeply critical of the British Raj in India. Tagore's aim was criticize an unjust practice (colonialism) and an international system (the League of Nations) which was thoroughly unsympathetic to the plight of colonized people in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

He wrote:

“We want to draw a veil over our past to appease the Muslims.” We have done it for a long time. It is time to lift the veil."

(source: Patriotism is not enough - By M.S.N. Menon). . Refer to Religion of Peace , Islam Watch and In the Name of Allah  

Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com. Refer to Islamic Jihad in the chapter on Glimpses XXI and India, Jihad’s Permanent Battleground - By Srdja Trifkovic and The Legacy of Jihad in India - By Andrew G Bostom - Americanthinker.com.

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Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists have also suffered a terrible holocaust, probably without parallel in human history. Take the Hindu Kush for instance, probably one of the biggest genocides of Hindus. There is practically no serious research ever done about it and no mention in history books. Yet the name Hindu Kush appears many times in the writings of Muslim chroniclers in 1333 AD. 

Ibn Battutah, the medieval Berber traveller, said the name meant 'Hindu Killer,' a meaning still given by Afghan mountain dwellers.  

Unlike the Jewish holocaust, the exact toll of the Hindu genocide suggested by the name Hindu Kush is not available. 'However,' writes Hindu Kush specialist Srinandan Vyas, 'the number is easily likely to be in millions.' 

Afghanistan was a full part of the Hindu cradle up till the year 1000, and in political unity with India until Nadir Shah separated it in the 18th century. The mountain range in Eastern Afghanistan where the native Hindus were slaughtered, is still called the Hindu Kush (Persian: "Hindu Slaughter"). 

(Note: To the Hindus, this mountain range was known as Paariyaatra Parvat. But when the last Hindu king of Kabul was killed Muslims ruled this land and then called these mountains the Hindu Kush -- "Slaughter of the Hindus" ).

It is significant that one of the very few place-names on earth that reminds us not of the victory of the winners but rather of the slaughter of the losers, concerns a genocide of Hindus by the Muslims.

A few known historical figures can be used to justify this estimate. The Encyclopaedia Britannica recalls that in December 1398 AD, Taimurlane ordered the execution of at least 50,000 captives before the battle for Delhi; likewise, the number of captives butchered by Taimurlane's army was about 100,000.

The Britannica again mentions that Mughal emperor Akbar ordered the massacre of about 30,000 captured Rajput Hindus on February 24, 1568 AD, after the battle for Chitod, a number confirmed by Abul Fazl, Akbar's court historian. Afghan historian Khondamir notes that during one of the many repeated invasions on the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, which used to be part of the Hindu Shahiya kingdoms '1,500,000 residents perished.' 'Thus, 'it is evident that the mountain range was named as Hindu Kush as a reminder to the future Hindu generations of the slaughter and slavery of Hindus during the Moslem conquests.'

(source: Where's India's holocaust museum? - By Francois Gautier - rediff.com). Refer to Misinterpretation of the Gita by Dr. Zakir Naik - By Dr. Alok K. Bohara.

Ravi Shanker Kapoor  (  ) graduated from Delhi University. A journalist by vocation he works with The Financial Express and is an author of two books, How India ’s Intellectuals Spread Lies and More Equal than others – a study of the Indian left

He has observed that:

"Indian Leftwing intellectuals and liberals unquestionably go along with the claim that Islam is a religion of peace that it stands for fraternity and equality. As for violence associated with Islam, they argue that terrorists distort the “real meaning” of Islam, thus maligning the great faith. As on other issues, Indian intellectuals are loath to see the reality as it exists. They continue to ignore facts and twist truths. They continue to confuse myth-making with scholarship, and propaganda. They make great efforts to veil the many passages in the Koran that explicitly instruct the faithful to slay non-Muslims, wage jehad, ill-treat women, and straitjacket life into prescription. These are the passages that have always inspired, and continue to inspire, violent men in the community to live up to the exhortations and instructions. It is true that vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving people; what is tragic is that the small, violent majority is able to impose its fundamentalist agenda on the majority without much protest from the latter. And intellectuals continue to pussy-foot around this reality. 

Liberals say that the root cause is always “socio-economic” conditions, and such conditions inevitably generate terrorism and violence. It is not Islam but poverty and political alienation that are root-cause. They also quote selectively from the Koran to buttress their arguments: “There shall be no compulsion in religion” (Sura 2:256). Conveniently, they do not quote other suras of the Koran, those preach violence, and intolerance."

(source:  How India ’s Intellectuals Spread Lies  - By Ravi Shanker Kapoor  p. 99  - 114). Refer to More Equal than others – a study of the Indian left

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Adhai-din-ka-jhonpra

Ultimate example of destruction of Hindu Temple

No matter what people believe about the secular nature of Muslim rulers in India , the Adai-din ka Jhonpra is the ultimate example of the destruction of a Hindu temple to construct a mosque.

This edifice of 1192 came up even one year before construction of Qutub Minar began in Delhi.It is called Adhai din ka Jhonpra, following an interesting anecdote. After the second battle of Tarain (1192) in which Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori defeated and killed Prithviraj Chauhan, the victor passed through Ajmer

Mohammad Ghori was so awed by the temples of the city, that he wanted them destroyed and replaced instantly

 

  

Refer to An Architect looks at the Taj Mahal Legend - By Marvin Mills, AIA and Taj Mahal an analysis of a great deception – By V S Godbole

 

Ultimate example of destruction of a Hindu Temple and Sanskrit college by Muslim Invaders Hindu pillars still evident in the mosque. 

Mohammad Ghori was so awed by the temples of the city of Ajmer, that he wanted them destroyed and replaced instantly. He asked Qutub-ud-din Aibak, his slave general, to have the needful done in 60 hours’ time (adhai din) so that he could offer prayers in the new mosque on his way back.  The mosque is believed to have been built in two and a half days, thus named Adhai-din (two and a half days). The edifice was originally a Sanskrit college, but Muhammad Ghori converted it into a mosque in 1198 and built a seven-arched wall inscribed with verses from the Koran. 

Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com. Refer to Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org. Refer to Islamic Jihad in the chapter on Glimpses XXI and India, Jihad’s Permanent Battleground - By Srdja Trifkovic and The Legacy of Jihad in India - By Andrew G Bostom - Americanthinker.com. Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam – By Koenraad Elst . Refer to Religion of Peace , Islam Watch and In the Name of Allah Watch video - About Islam – Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist

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He asked Qutub-ud-din Aibak, his slave general, to have the needful done in 60 hours’ time (adhai din) so that he could offer prayers in the new mosque on his way back.  The mosque is believed to have been built in two and a half days, thus named Adhai-din (two and a half days). The edifice was originally a Sanskrit college, but Muhammad Ghori converted it into a mosque in 1198 and built a seven-arched wall inscribed with verses from the Koran. 

Colonel James Todd (1782-1835) describes the Adhai-din ka Jhonpra as a temple in his book Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Volume I. This Englishman is credited with being the first to map Rajasthan and write about it in immense detail. He writes that "the entire façade of this noble entrance … is covered with Arabic inscriptions … but a small frieze over the apex of the arch contains an inscription in Sanskrit." The Arabic script he attributes to Ghori who used local masons and artisans to break down this centre of learning where one was taught in Sanskrit and built a mosque in its place. Perhaps that is the reason why the mosque was completed in two and a half days, for the original infrastructure must already have existed. The interior of the Jhonpra is designed along the lines of a Hindu temple rather than a mosque where the main hall is supported by a number of massive columns. Three pillars are placed over each other to gain more height while the roof is supported on square bays. The columns are of an uncommon design, heavily decorated and quite similar to Hindu and Jain rock temples, each of one being dissimilar to each other. Their bases are large and bulbous, tapering as they gain height, with nichés to house images of gods and goddesses. Even the ceiling is an extensively carved adventure, below which is a pulpit especially constructed to deliver sermons from the Koran. It was almost completely built by Hindu masons, and supervised by Afghan overseers. There’s a tiny Sanskrit inscription on top of the main gate that reminds you of the actual origin of this historic monument. The interior of the mosque is more like a Hindu temple, with a main hall supported by numerous columns. Three pillars are placed over each other while the roof is supported on square bays. The columns are of an uncommon design, heavily decorated and quite similar to Hindu and Jain rock temples. Their bases are large and bulbous, tapering as they gain height. Although the original pillars and the roof of the pre-Muslim structure were allowed to remain, many of the original carvings were defaced by the conquerors. Most of these artefacts are now in the local Rajasthan museum, including the panels containing fine inscriptions from two popular Sanskrit dramas, Harakeli Natak and Lalilta Vigraharaja Natak.

The credit for the restoration of Adhai din ka Jhonpra goes to archaeologists Alexander Cunningham and D. R. Bhandarkar in the first half of the 20th century. In their report they say: "The whole of the exterior of the mosque is covered up with a network of tracery so finely and delicately wrought that it can only be compared to a fine lace."

Cunningham described the exterior of the Jhonpra even more eloquently: "For gorgeous prodigality of ornament, beautiful richness of tracery, delicate sharpness of finish, laborious accuracy of workmanship, endless variety of detail, all of which are due to the Hindu masons, this building may justly vie with the noblest buildings which the world has yet produced."

 


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