Goldent, there is no doubt that christianity has done a lot of harm. But there is no doubt either that muslim invaders by their own accounts tried to convert by force and the Sikh gurus are just one example. The reason that it was not worse than what it is (30-40% of the total population if you look at unpartitioned India or even by combining BAngla/Pak?iNdia now) is becasue India was too large and the invaders were not as much in number as could have assaulted the entire Hindu population. Moreoever at some point they got tired of it or were distracted by power, or were thwarted by the more secular and tolerant such as Akbar. But conversions were going on throughout and the Hindus were kept at bay as second class citizens who had value enough not to be wiped out.
Even now, I have heard numerous accounts of how muslims are advised in mosques in bengal and elsewhere (even in some British mosques) to marry Hindu girls and to convert them. It is not the sword anymore but it goes on in other ways.
The important thing right now is not to deny it but to accept history, to distance oneself from the invaders (not embrace them as many muslims do) and to bond with the Hindus as equals and as brothers and as Indians with a great joint destiny.
