The late scholar and historian, Dr. Bishambhar Nath Pande%u2019s research efforts exploded myths on Aurangzeb%u2019s rule. They also offer an excellent example of what history has to teach us if only we study it dispassionately
The Muslim rule in India lasted for almost 1,000 years. How come then, asked the British historian Sir Henry Elliot, that Hindus %u201Chad not left any account which could enable us to gauge the traumatic impact the Muslim conquest and rule had on them?%u201D Since there was none, Elliot went on to produce his own eight%u2013volume History of India from with contributions from British historians (1867). His history claimed Hindus were slain for disputing with %u2018Muhammedans%u2019, generally prohibited from worshipping and taking out religious processions, their idols were mutilated, their temples destroyed, they were forced into conversions and marriages, and were killed and massacred by drunk Muslim tyrants. Thus Sir Henry, and scores of other Empire scholars, went on to produce a synthetic Hindu versus Muslim history of India, and their lies became history.
