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One does not have to agree with everything the writer says to accept his main thesis that there were well meaning historians willing to be very economical with the truth about how all rulers -whether British or Muslim- were basically a bunch of pillagers and looters. This would of course be true of Shivaji and his marauding Maratha army which left large swathes of India from Gujarat to Orissa – and especially central India in shambles due to their looting. And this would be true of most rulers in pre-medieval India when there were neither Europeans or Muslims around. But one has to take the point seriously that hiding atrocities committed by Muslim rulers, to serve the needs of contemporary politics, is very short sighted if not totally dishonest to boot. An open discussion of all historical facts, however unpalatable they are to anyone should be the only approach to take. Indians are not fools and presenting the harsh truths about our past will only make India a better place.
By using the term ‘Muhammadan Army’, he seems to have a lack of knowledge about the history of Islam and how it spread. Mr Kapil needs to read about how Muhammad dealt with the prisoners, the people of Mecca. He forgave all. He was the most peaceful. Using his name to describe any King’s/Ruler’s army is to malign him and show your shallow knowledge of Islam. I suggest you to read about Islam. Quraan brought a sea change in my life. It will demolish your preconceived notions Mr Kapil too.
Really , he might have forgiven the Mecca prisoner but that doesn’t mean he did for all the prisoners. there has many recorded instance where is traded captured female and child and promoted slavery and sex slavery too by not objecting but supporting the Sahaba with many sex slave. No where in History there was a war among hindu kingdom and women where captured as sex slave. It was only prevalent in more of Arab cult as they were that time only seeing female of Europe and Indian sub continent. So far we havent not seen any Arab lady of African black. Why ? Because black african were considered slave . They were captured from all parts of africa and sold in arab market and to european market . They were never allowed to marry arab and hence one never find any black origin arab. Islam promoted slavery is deep rooted. Most of the mosque in pakistan , afganisatn and india are build on hindu buddist and jain temple. All these are recorded by many history of that era like Mohamed Kasim , in books like Jafarnama, Forez shahi , Iene Akbari etc. Quran is full of hatred for idol worshiper . Infact it has been mention as slave women are better than idol worshiper women , This on prove, female oppression as slave as well as discrimination degradation and humilating the kaffir/Idol worshiper.
When people like you were born in Sparta, they used to throw them down the cliff.
what a pile of horse shit article. the writer has no factual details to substantiate his argument. the only quote he states to seek support is
“The encounter between ‘the strictest and most extreme form of monotheism’ and ‘the richest and most varied polytheism’, Octavio Paz wrote in his luminous study of India, left a ‘deep wound’ on the psyche of its people.”
Octavia Paz seems to have little understanding of Islam itself. without further ref let me rip his statement apart. Paz is stating Islam as ‘strictest and most extreme form of monotheism,’ but what he fails to grasp is the plurality in Islam. he seems to be stating there is ONE ISLAM. the islam he so dreads is a current concept of Wahabi Islam [arab Isalmdom Islam] which he is taking into the past for application into an Islamicate region.the rulers we had were never Arabs and their concept of peaceful coexistence is cited factually by historians like Richard Eaton and his award winning book ‘Islam and Bengal frontier,’ which clearly states that Indian Muslims are not a product of conversion [instant process] but of islamicisation [slow process]. its conversion which the writer seems to imply with his plebeian English ‘Muhammadan forces began to kill and slaughter on the right and on the left unmercifully, through the impure land.’
you become what you read and if your read a witter who writes ‘mohammadan’ then ur still a colonial in your mindset. thus justifying his inability to truly grasp the plurality of SUL E KUL!!!!
pls dont read immature takes at a complex historical and cultural process. read Azfar Moin, Rajeev Kinra [his book is free online], audrey truschke, Richard Eaton.
Easier way to understand whether Islam is tolerant or not is to read Quran Sirah and Hadis.
Audrey truschke. Lol
really … better read books of all historian from 700AD to 1700 AD rather than all fraudster fake secualar historian to know the truth of islam. 90% of indian muslim are /were forced converted to islam by Mohamad GAzni or babar and rest Akbar, Tipu and Aurengeb.
Barking kutta repeating same old lies spread by the followers of Mr Sorrykar.
Hindus are fools who believe what others tell them. Otherwise how can they tolerate the barbaric rule of Muslim and still think that muslims are their brothers. This is because Hindus think that all the muslims in the Indian subcontinent are originally Hindus. But the problem with muslims is that they still think they are the original Muslims.
But Arabs (original muslims) think these muslims as slaves. But muslims of subcontinent think arabs are their brothers.
These converted Muslims never understand. They are more faithful than the king himself
Exactly . Just one twit from some european female convert who were captured during ottoman empire, forced converted to islam and someone become princess for obvious reason and all indian muslim think they are muslim of arab going gagagaga.. They never understood why azan was asked by muslim to do looking at meecaa 5 times . Azzan was a nice way to make sure newly captured and converted slave never forget who were their new master and from where they came..! so all new slave were asked by islamic army to look toward mecca and read 5 times a day ..that Allah is only god and moahmed his messenger. but joker still cant understand why ! Infact Arab ruler were saying non arab muslim are slave of Arab muslim. Affirm the fact , that islam is infact religion of slave and force converted in original . All the muslim who are like 6/7 generation muslim dont know their original hindu linage . and truth of this forceful conversion. They still believe the gagaga that they accepted it peacefully !
Whatever is the past, minority majoritarianism dominated the political narrative, and I know what we learn is historiography, therefore, how do we now construct a project ‘India’?
Continual Genocide in Bharat covering at least two to three generations. So much so that the current generations of those used by the British for this work, have now become the perpetrators. Specially the Muslims, Christians and the polity belonging to the
scheduled caste.
Rather, it has been the persecution of the Savarna (the pre 1921 “Hindoo”)who were merged into a legal fiction of a religion with others by the British and their Pangolin stooges who are responsible for the rise of this “Hindutva” which is nothing to do with Hindutva (i.e. religious plyuralism or genuine secularism)
This was a systematic, vicious and brilliant plan that the British (Indian Political Service) devised in the Viceregal period following the supercession of the East India Company by the Crown (1858). Delayed by the opposition of Lord Roberts and Curzon, the resumption of “reprisals” under Hardinge, led to wide spread unrest under Chelmsford leading to the implementation of the diabolical Indian Political Service scheme unleashed by Lord Reading.
After the 1857 mutiny, having had every Brahmin man, woman and child that they could lay hands in the erstwhile Bengal Presidency, Central Provinces, and United Provinces massacred by way of reprisal by their Madrassi, Pathan and Sikh soldiers, the British put together their plan to subjugate India and began the implementation from 1921; Confiscation of Savarna Commonwealth (Temples, treasure etc) in 1923 and expulsion of the Brahmanas from the courts and de recognizing their judicial authority. Distribution of agricultural lands on which guru kulas and temples were dependent to the ryots, Commencement of Daalit Movement (Phule, Ambedkar etc) in the West. Commencement of Draavid movement (EVR Naiker etc) in the South. Subversion of the Sikhs through Kartar and Karag (Sialkot) to commence the Akali movement in the North. Self emasculating pacifism and worship of alien religions and ideologies such as communism (Alan Octavian Hume, Indian National Congress, Gandhi, Nehru) etc etc. This and the pampering of the Deen e Kitabi (Christians and Moslems) as well as Daalits was enshrined in the Indian Constitution condemning India to a perpetual low intensity civil war. They solidified this by confiscating the commonwealth, including temples, educational institutions, gymnasiums, lands, water bodies, religious freedoms and dispossessing their hereditary law and education giving priesthood so that they would become rootless.
The PANGOLIN*s extended the same policies to residual India including the unfortunate, formerly well governed, Princely States (Vijayanagar Viceregalities or Palegars and Maratha Governorates) such as Mysore, Travancore, Puri, Kohlapur, etc.
The Government of India Act (1935) which was modified by Sir Maurice Gwyer for Nehru and Ambedkar to plagiarize into the Indian Constitution, and into which they embroidered ideas that they borrowed from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, such as “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” and “Four legs good, two legs bad”
A nation locked in the iron maiden of the British Judiciary, Bureaucracy, Police, garnished with self serving politicians, and raised on the gibbet of the Reservations-Extortion Constitution and laws to fall to 135 out of 172 countries (and below Sub-Saharan Africa) in the Global Human and Social Development Index (UNDP – 2016) and 143 rd out of 172 countries in internal Peace and Stability (UNDP – 2016) , home to 30% of the World’s poor (World Bank 2016) and with the highest number of Bomb Blast in the World 2016) pushing Iraq to a lowly second place with just half as many; in just 67 years. India ranks 107 out of 124 countries in corruption free law enforcement and personal security. And in 2018 achieved the distinction of ranking 81 on the list of corrupt countries, ranked from Least Corrupt downwards, and 182 in terms of Freedom of Speech !
*Note: PANGOLIN: An enemy of India who believes in inequality under law, exceptions to the rule of law and persecution of some for the benefit of others. At present, the sole purpose of the Indian Republic, Constitutional or otherwise, is to pamper and provide for certain constitutionally preferred sections of society who the British found useful to hold and exploit India at the cost of those who the British hated and persecuted. The Pangolin is a creature that is unique to India and feeds on ants that are known in nature to be industrious and hard working if not quite as fruitful as bees who flee to better climes. (PANGOLIN is an acronym for the Periyar-Ambedkar-Nehru-Gandhi-Other (alien) Religions-Communist Consensus that usurped the British Mantle and has worn it with elan to loot, plunder, and rape India since 1921 and re write History and laws to their exclusive benefit since 1947)
Mr Aiyer, You seem to have taken the ‘persecution’ of the Savarnas very personally. One wonders why that is the case?
I believe it is deeply ingrained in the Hindu psyche to be suspicious of Muslims because of the history of the country. While the historians are not explicit in the horrors that must have followed because of Islamic invasions, the Hindus do guess and have always known. The partition situation is more well known and that was marked by both Muslim and Hindu violence. Violence by Hindus against Muslims is also to be condemned as the religion inherently is accepting and liberal. I would say with every passing generation the communities would learn to live more harmoniously together. However, somewhere still the Hindus believe they are in need of a show of strength which is a defensive strategy, and so the rise of hindutva and bjp.
if the present day Muslims are not responsible for the actions of their ancestors, why would they oppose the re-construction of the Hindu Mandir’s at Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi ? But for the actions of the Baburs and Ghaznavis and Timurs, there would be no Islam today in South Asia !!!
Present day muslim are text book bigots…voted for their Islamic republic never went there, hindoon nay theka lay Rakha hai bhai chare ka hai?
If present day Muslims say, “Ye hamare wali hain” about invaders like Aurangzeb, Akbar, Shah Jahan. Then they are as complicit in their crimes as enslavers.
Only when they acknowledge the past (not even apologise, as they are now moot), only then we can together be free of past.
Just like if present day Germans don’t acknowledge Nazis and their doings, then they are as guilty as Nazis
One does not have to agree with everything the writer says to accept his main thesis that there were well meaning historians willing to be very economical with the truth about how all rulers -whether British or Muslim- were basically a bunch of pillagers and looters. This would of course be true of Shivaji and his marauding Maratha army which left large swathes of India from Gujarat to Orissa – and especially central India in shambles due to their looting. And this would be true of most rulers in pre-medieval India when there were neither Europeans or Muslims around. But one has to take the point seriously that hiding atrocities committed by Muslim rulers, to serve the needs of contemporary politics, is very short sighted if not totally dishonest to boot. An open discussion of all historical facts, however unpalatable they are to anyone should be the only approach to take. Indians are not fools and presenting the harsh truths about our past will only make India a better place.
By using the term ‘Muhammadan Army’, he seems to have a lack of knowledge about the history of Islam and how it spread. Mr Kapil needs to read about how Muhammad dealt with the prisoners, the people of Mecca. He forgave all. He was the most peaceful. Using his name to describe any King’s/Ruler’s army is to malign him and show your shallow knowledge of Islam. I suggest you to read about Islam. Quraan brought a sea change in my life. It will demolish your preconceived notions Mr Kapil too.
Really , he might have forgiven the Mecca prisoner but that doesn’t mean he did for all the prisoners. there has many recorded instance where is traded captured female and child and promoted slavery and sex slavery too by not objecting but supporting the Sahaba with many sex slave. No where in History there was a war among hindu kingdom and women where captured as sex slave. It was only prevalent in more of Arab cult as they were that time only seeing female of Europe and Indian sub continent. So far we havent not seen any Arab lady of African black. Why ? Because black african were considered slave . They were captured from all parts of africa and sold in arab market and to european market . They were never allowed to marry arab and hence one never find any black origin arab. Islam promoted slavery is deep rooted. Most of the mosque in pakistan , afganisatn and india are build on hindu buddist and jain temple. All these are recorded by many history of that era like Mohamed Kasim , in books like Jafarnama, Forez shahi , Iene Akbari etc. Quran is full of hatred for idol worshiper . Infact it has been mention as slave women are better than idol worshiper women , This on prove, female oppression as slave as well as discrimination degradation and humilating the kaffir/Idol worshiper.
When people like you were born in Sparta, they used to throw them down the cliff.
what a pile of horse shit article. the writer has no factual details to substantiate his argument. the only quote he states to seek support is
“The encounter between ‘the strictest and most extreme form of monotheism’ and ‘the richest and most varied polytheism’, Octavio Paz wrote in his luminous study of India, left a ‘deep wound’ on the psyche of its people.”
Octavia Paz seems to have little understanding of Islam itself. without further ref let me rip his statement apart. Paz is stating Islam as ‘strictest and most extreme form of monotheism,’ but what he fails to grasp is the plurality in Islam. he seems to be stating there is ONE ISLAM. the islam he so dreads is a current concept of Wahabi Islam [arab Isalmdom Islam] which he is taking into the past for application into an Islamicate region.the rulers we had were never Arabs and their concept of peaceful coexistence is cited factually by historians like Richard Eaton and his award winning book ‘Islam and Bengal frontier,’ which clearly states that Indian Muslims are not a product of conversion [instant process] but of islamicisation [slow process]. its conversion which the writer seems to imply with his plebeian English ‘Muhammadan forces began to kill and slaughter on the right and on the left unmercifully, through the impure land.’
you become what you read and if your read a witter who writes ‘mohammadan’ then ur still a colonial in your mindset. thus justifying his inability to truly grasp the plurality of SUL E KUL!!!!
pls dont read immature takes at a complex historical and cultural process. read Azfar Moin, Rajeev Kinra [his book is free online], audrey truschke, Richard Eaton.
Easier way to understand whether Islam is tolerant or not is to read Quran Sirah and Hadis.
Audrey truschke. Lol
really … better read books of all historian from 700AD to 1700 AD rather than all fraudster fake secualar historian to know the truth of islam. 90% of indian muslim are /were forced converted to islam by Mohamad GAzni or babar and rest Akbar, Tipu and Aurengeb.
Barking kutta repeating same old lies spread by the followers of Mr Sorrykar.
Hindus are fools who believe what others tell them. Otherwise how can they tolerate the barbaric rule of Muslim and still think that muslims are their brothers. This is because Hindus think that all the muslims in the Indian subcontinent are originally Hindus. But the problem with muslims is that they still think they are the original Muslims.
But Arabs (original muslims) think these muslims as slaves. But muslims of subcontinent think arabs are their brothers.
These converted Muslims never understand. They are more faithful than the king himself
Exactly . Just one twit from some european female convert who were captured during ottoman empire, forced converted to islam and someone become princess for obvious reason and all indian muslim think they are muslim of arab going gagagaga.. They never understood why azan was asked by muslim to do looking at meecaa 5 times . Azzan was a nice way to make sure newly captured and converted slave never forget who were their new master and from where they came..! so all new slave were asked by islamic army to look toward mecca and read 5 times a day ..that Allah is only god and moahmed his messenger. but joker still cant understand why ! Infact Arab ruler were saying non arab muslim are slave of Arab muslim. Affirm the fact , that islam is infact religion of slave and force converted in original . All the muslim who are like 6/7 generation muslim dont know their original hindu linage . and truth of this forceful conversion. They still believe the gagaga that they accepted it peacefully !
Whatever is the past, minority majoritarianism dominated the political narrative, and I know what we learn is historiography, therefore, how do we now construct a project ‘India’?
Continual Genocide in Bharat covering at least two to three generations. So much so that the current generations of those used by the British for this work, have now become the perpetrators. Specially the Muslims, Christians and the polity belonging to the
scheduled caste.
Rather, it has been the persecution of the Savarna (the pre 1921 “Hindoo”)who were merged into a legal fiction of a religion with others by the British and their Pangolin stooges who are responsible for the rise of this “Hindutva” which is nothing to do with Hindutva (i.e. religious plyuralism or genuine secularism)
This was a systematic, vicious and brilliant plan that the British (Indian Political Service) devised in the Viceregal period following the supercession of the East India Company by the Crown (1858). Delayed by the opposition of Lord Roberts and Curzon, the resumption of “reprisals” under Hardinge, led to wide spread unrest under Chelmsford leading to the implementation of the diabolical Indian Political Service scheme unleashed by Lord Reading.
After the 1857 mutiny, having had every Brahmin man, woman and child that they could lay hands in the erstwhile Bengal Presidency, Central Provinces, and United Provinces massacred by way of reprisal by their Madrassi, Pathan and Sikh soldiers, the British put together their plan to subjugate India and began the implementation from 1921; Confiscation of Savarna Commonwealth (Temples, treasure etc) in 1923 and expulsion of the Brahmanas from the courts and de recognizing their judicial authority. Distribution of agricultural lands on which guru kulas and temples were dependent to the ryots, Commencement of Daalit Movement (Phule, Ambedkar etc) in the West. Commencement of Draavid movement (EVR Naiker etc) in the South. Subversion of the Sikhs through Kartar and Karag (Sialkot) to commence the Akali movement in the North. Self emasculating pacifism and worship of alien religions and ideologies such as communism (Alan Octavian Hume, Indian National Congress, Gandhi, Nehru) etc etc. This and the pampering of the Deen e Kitabi (Christians and Moslems) as well as Daalits was enshrined in the Indian Constitution condemning India to a perpetual low intensity civil war. They solidified this by confiscating the commonwealth, including temples, educational institutions, gymnasiums, lands, water bodies, religious freedoms and dispossessing their hereditary law and education giving priesthood so that they would become rootless.
The PANGOLIN*s extended the same policies to residual India including the unfortunate, formerly well governed, Princely States (Vijayanagar Viceregalities or Palegars and Maratha Governorates) such as Mysore, Travancore, Puri, Kohlapur, etc.
The Government of India Act (1935) which was modified by Sir Maurice Gwyer for Nehru and Ambedkar to plagiarize into the Indian Constitution, and into which they embroidered ideas that they borrowed from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, such as “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” and “Four legs good, two legs bad”
A nation locked in the iron maiden of the British Judiciary, Bureaucracy, Police, garnished with self serving politicians, and raised on the gibbet of the Reservations-Extortion Constitution and laws to fall to 135 out of 172 countries (and below Sub-Saharan Africa) in the Global Human and Social Development Index (UNDP – 2016) and 143 rd out of 172 countries in internal Peace and Stability (UNDP – 2016) , home to 30% of the World’s poor (World Bank 2016) and with the highest number of Bomb Blast in the World 2016) pushing Iraq to a lowly second place with just half as many; in just 67 years. India ranks 107 out of 124 countries in corruption free law enforcement and personal security. And in 2018 achieved the distinction of ranking 81 on the list of corrupt countries, ranked from Least Corrupt downwards, and 182 in terms of Freedom of Speech !
*Note: PANGOLIN: An enemy of India who believes in inequality under law, exceptions to the rule of law and persecution of some for the benefit of others. At present, the sole purpose of the Indian Republic, Constitutional or otherwise, is to pamper and provide for certain constitutionally preferred sections of society who the British found useful to hold and exploit India at the cost of those who the British hated and persecuted. The Pangolin is a creature that is unique to India and feeds on ants that are known in nature to be industrious and hard working if not quite as fruitful as bees who flee to better climes. (PANGOLIN is an acronym for the Periyar-Ambedkar-Nehru-Gandhi-Other (alien) Religions-Communist Consensus that usurped the British Mantle and has worn it with elan to loot, plunder, and rape India since 1921 and re write History and laws to their exclusive benefit since 1947)
Mr Aiyer, You seem to have taken the ‘persecution’ of the Savarnas very personally. One wonders why that is the case?
I believe it is deeply ingrained in the Hindu psyche to be suspicious of Muslims because of the history of the country. While the historians are not explicit in the horrors that must have followed because of Islamic invasions, the Hindus do guess and have always known. The partition situation is more well known and that was marked by both Muslim and Hindu violence. Violence by Hindus against Muslims is also to be condemned as the religion inherently is accepting and liberal. I would say with every passing generation the communities would learn to live more harmoniously together. However, somewhere still the Hindus believe they are in need of a show of strength which is a defensive strategy, and so the rise of hindutva and bjp.
Present day Muslims can not be held responsible for acts of Muslims of bygone era.
However Hindus expect Muslims to acknowledge that fact and make token amendment like giving up Babri & Gyanwapi Mosque.
if the present day Muslims are not responsible for the actions of their ancestors, why would they oppose the re-construction of the Hindu Mandir’s at Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi ? But for the actions of the Baburs and Ghaznavis and Timurs, there would be no Islam today in South Asia !!!
Present day muslim are text book bigots…voted for their Islamic republic never went there, hindoon nay theka lay Rakha hai bhai chare ka hai?
If present day Muslims say, “Ye hamare wali hain” about invaders like Aurangzeb, Akbar, Shah Jahan. Then they are as complicit in their crimes as enslavers.
Only when they acknowledge the past (not even apologise, as they are now moot), only then we can together be free of past.
Just like if present day Germans don’t acknowledge Nazis and their doings, then they are as guilty as Nazis