Hello Dear Guest, Even though the message is pretty old but still I felt like responding as the entire chain is heading into a wrong direction. No one is saying that he was flawless and perfect king. He was unlike anyone else and has his share of pros and cons and the only concern here was to clarify whether he forced conversion and demolished temples or not. Yes he did that but as rightly stated by Murali, that was situational rather than self motived..similar to what Karsevaks did to RJB-Babri Mosque. He was cruel in some context and on the same hand, some historians claims that he did a lot many good things too, irrespective of religious biasness. Do let me know if you need proofs or some reference books and I can surely refer some of them (to me it looked very close to reality but not sure if you will like that) Thanks, SAK