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Writing
politically correct history - Getting awards from America
Romila
Thapar gets 2008 Kluge Prize
The
wise may arraign or applaud
Wealth may flow in or vanish
as it will,
Death may occur today
or when the epoch ends
The steadfast never stray
from the path of righeousness
- written in Sanskrit by Bhartrihari
in
Nitishatak
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-Taimuri�.
“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.
***
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
***
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
***
"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).
***
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 India. 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 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. Refer
to Exodus
of Kashmiri Pandits -
By Aditya Raj
Kaul.
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
***
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 Exodus
of Kashmiri Pandits -
By Aditya
Raj Kaul.
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.
***
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
***
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 Exodus
of Kashmiri Pandits -
By Aditya
Raj Kaul
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
***
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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