INTERESTING ARTICLE..
Interestin
This is a good insight into the reasons why the Hindus
are an aggrieved party.
Subject: : Past Invaders of India: Interesting article..
It's a long, informative read worth your efforts...
of how this country was ruined by the invaders. Today even the historians refuse to
accept the fact that the conquerors could resort to such dastardly acts.
The Archaeological Dept., too, follows the rules laid by the bureaucrats and the politicians
for fear of communal backlash. Do we have such leaders who can stand up and preserve
the cultural heritage of this country? Let the truths be known to all, honestly.
Worth reading.
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What the Islamic Invaders did to India!
by Rizwan Salim
12 Nov, 2007
On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992),
it is important for Hindus (and Muslims, too,) to understand the importance
of the event in the context of Hindustans' history, past and recent, present
and the future.
Savages at a very low level of civilization, and no culture worth the name,
from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century
onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered
uncountable sculptures and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts
of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women.This story, the educated and a lot of illiterate Indians know very well.
History books tell it in remarkable detail. But many Indians do not seem to
recognize that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution
of the earth's most mentally advanced civilization, the most richly imaginative
culture, and the most vigorously creative society.
It is clear that India at the time when Muslim invaders turned towards it
(8 through 11th century) was the earth's richest region for its wealth in
precious and semi-precious stones, gold and silver, religion and culture,
and its fine arts and letters. Tenth century Hindustan was also too far
advanced than its contemporaries in the East and the West for its
achievements in the realms of speculative philosophy and scientific
theorizing, mathematics and knowledge of nature's workings. Hindus
of the early medieval period were unquestionably superior in more things
than the Chinese, the Persians (including the Sassanians), the Romans
and the Byzantines of the immediate proceeding centuries.The followers of Shiva and Vishnu, on this subcontinent, had created for
themselves a society more mentally evolved, joyous and prosperous, too,
than had been realized by Jews, Christians, and Muslim monotheists of
the time. Medieval India, until the Islamic invaders destroyed it, was
history's most richly imaginative culture and one of the five most advanced
civilizations of all times.
Look at the Hindu art that Muslim iconoclasts severely damaged or destroyed
. Ancient Hindu sculpture is vigorous and sensual in the highest degree,
more fascinating than human figurative art created anywhere else on earth.
Only statues created by classical Greek artists are in the same class as
Hindu temple sculpture. Ancient Hindu temple architecture is the most
awe-inspiring, ornate and spell-binding architectural style found anywhere
in the world.The Gothic art of cathedrals in France is the only other religious architecture
that is comparable with the intricate architecture of Hindu temples. No
artists of any historical civilization have ever revealed the same genius
as ancient Hindustans' artists and artisans.
Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of Hindustan,
the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu temples. This is a
historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chroniclers and others of the time.A number of temples were merely damaged and remained standing. But
a large number, not hundreds but many thousands, of the ancient temples
were broken into shreds of cracked stone.In the ancient cities of Varanasi and Mathura, Ujjain and Maheshwar,
Jwalamukhi and Dwarka, not one temple survives whole and intact from
the ancient times.
The wrecking of Hindu temples went on from the early years of the 8th
century to well past 1700 AD, a period of almost 1000 years. Every Muslim
ruler in Delhi or Governor of Provinces, spent most of his time warring against
Hindu kings in the north and the south, the east and the west, and almost
every Muslim Sultan and his army commanders indulged in large scale
destructions of Hindu temples and idols. They also slaughtered a lot
of Hindus.It is easy to conclude that virtually every Hindu temple built in the ancient
times is a perfect work of art. The evidence of the ferocity with which
the Muslim invaders must have struck at the sculptures of gods and
goddesses, demons and apsaras, kings and queens, dancers and
musicians, is frightful.At so many ancient temples of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, for
example, shattered portions of stone images still lie scattered in the
temple courtyards. Considering the fury used on the idols and sculptures,
the stone-breaking axe must have been applied to thousands upon
thousands of images of hypnotic beauty.
Giving proof of the resentment that men belonging to an inferior civilization
feel upon encountering a superior civilization of individuals with a more
refined culture, Islamic invaders from Arabia and western Asia broke and
burned everything beautiful they came across in Hindustan. So morally
degenerate were the Muslim Sultans that, rather than attract Hindu "infidels"
to Islam through force of personal example and exhortation, they just built
a number of mosques at the sites of torn down temples-and foolishly
pretended they had triumphed over the minds and culture of the Hindus.I have seen stones and columns of Hindu temples incorporated into the
architecture of several mosques, including the Jama Masjid and Ahmed
Shah Masjid in Ahmedabad; the mosque in the Uparkot Fort of Junagadh,
Gujarat, and in Vidisha near Bhopal; the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra right next to
the famous dargah in Ajmer and the currently controversial Bhojshala
"mosque" in Dhar near Indore.Hindu culture was at its imaginative best and vigorously creative when
the severely allergic-to-images, Muslims entered Hindustan. Islamic invaders
did not just destroy countless temples and constructions, but, also suppressed
cultural and religious practices; damaged the pristine vigor of Hindu religion,
prevented the intensification of Hindu culture, debilitating it permanently,
stopped the development of Hindu arts; ended the creative impulse in all
realms of thought and action, damaged the people's cultural pride, disrupted
the transmission of values and wisdom, cultural practices and tradition
from one generation to the next; destroyed the proper historical evolution
of Hindu kingdoms and society, affected severely the acquisition of knowledge,
research and reflection and violated the moral basis of Hindu society.The Hindus suffered immense psychic damage. The Muslims also plundered
the wealth of the Hindu kingdoms, impoverished the Hindu populace, and
destroyed the prosperity of Hindustan.
Gaze in wonder at the Kailash Mandir in the Ellora caves and remember
that it is carved out of a solid stone hill, an effort that inscriptions say
took nearly 200 years. This is art as devotion. The temple built by the
Rashtrakuta kings (who also built the colossal sculpture in the Elephenta
caves off Mumbai harbour) gives proof of the ancient Hindus' religious fervor.
But the Kailash temple also indicated a will power, a creative imagination,
and an intellect eager to take on the greatest of artistic challenges.
The descendants of those who built the magnificent temples of Bhojpur
and Thanjavur, Konark and Kailash, invented mathematics and brain surgery,
created mind body disciplines (yoga) of astonishing power, and built mighty
empires would almost certainly have attained technological superiority
over Europe.
It is not just for "political reasons" that Hindus want to build grand
temples at the sites of the wrecked Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Gyanvapi
mosque in Varanasi, and the Mathura. The efforts of religion-intoxicated
and politically active Hindus to rebuild the Ram Mandir, the Kashi
Vishwanath Mandir, and the Krishna Mandir are just three
episodes of a one-thousand year long Hindu struggle to reclaim their
culture and religion from alien invaders.
The demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December, 1992,
was just one episode in the millennial struggle of the Hindus to repossess
their religion-centered culture and nation. Meanwhile, hundreds of ancient
Hindu temples forsaken all over Hindustan await the reawakening of Hindu
cultural pride to be repaired or rebuilt and restored to their original,
ancient glory.
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This article was published in Hindustan Times on December 28, 1997
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Rizwan Salim is a reviewer of New York Tribune, Capitol Hill reporter,
_____________________________________________________________________________assistant Editor of American Sentinel.
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