The general policy of most of the rulers during the 700 years of Muslim occupation of India was to systematically replace the fabric of Hindu society and culture with a Muslim culture. They tried to destroy Indian religions, language and places of knowledge (universities e.g Nalanda and Taxshilawere totally destroyed by Muslims). They destroyed and desecrated places of thousands of temples including Somnath, Mathura, Benaras, Ayodhaya, Kannauj, Thaneswar and in other places. There was wholesale slaughter of the monks and priests and innocent Hindus with the aim to wipe out the intellectual bedrock of the people they overran.
The Muslims could not subjugate India with ease and were never able to rule it entirely. There was a valiant and ceaseless struggle for independence by Hindus to deliver India from Muslim tyranny. The Rajputs, Jats, Marathas and Sikhs led this struggle in North India. In the South this struggle was embodied in the Vijayanagar Empire. This struggle culminated when the Marathas ended the Muslim domination of India.
I do not hold the present generation of Muslims in India for the atrocities committed by the Invaders. They (or their ancestors) are in fact the victims of such atrocities. Learn from histroy and look forward to the future unbiased!
RE:Policy of Muslim rulers in India
by JGN on Feb 09, 2008 12:24 PM Permalink
veera, I am just wondering how the majority of Muslims are still liberal despite being taught The Koran and that too as a devine revealation. It contains so much hatred for the followers of other religion (rahter non-believers).
Though I do not believe in the dogmas of any religion, it seems that the Buddhist ideology in among the best!
RE:Policy of Muslim rulers in India
by JGN on Feb 09, 2008 12:30 PM Permalink
Dear veera, it seems that you are also under a wrong impression. If we follow the Right-wing hindu agenda (as a counter to Islamic militancy), we also would not be much better than Afghanistan in the near future. The better alternative is for all of us to get rid of the religious dogmas and see all our country-men as humanbeings (rather than compartmentalizing them on the basis of religion)!
RE:Policy of Muslim rulers in India
by JGN on Feb 09, 2008 12:36 PM Permalink
So one has to invent a god to believe in the ideology! The Buddhists believe in the well-being of all human-beings (or living things) and they defnitely do not believe in any supreme creator or god or even soul!!! That is one reason why I like the ideals of Buddhism (of course now Gautama the Buddha himself has become a diety for the Buddhists!!!!!)
RE:Policy of Muslim rulers in India
by JGN on Feb 09, 2008 12:45 PM Permalink
I disagree with you. And of course I do not beleive that there is any supreme creator or god. The idea of worship itself originated from the ignorance of the prmitive tribes. In today's world driven by science and technology, such beliefs have no place.
