This electronic book compiled by me from the mentioned (well researched) sources is for

the awareness of Indians and world at large of the Hindu genocide that took place during
the 'glorious' period of invasion and introduction of islam and islamic culture in
Bharatvarsh or India.
For those of you who don't know about the these main consecutive rulers who came and
ruled India, for about 900 years, here is the list - Babur (he descended from Samarkand in
Uzbekistan, a former Soviet muslim republic), his son who succeeded his throne was
Humayun, then Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb.. This was one family. There were
many other rulers smaller than them though who came looted, killed and fled. They had
frequent looting killing trips to India.
Its a wonder how the Hindus have known and kept quite bearing so many atrocities in a
span of the last one thousand years!! How a nation so wealthy, that it was called the golden
bird, a nation that was a mine of material and spiritual abundance, was reduced to and
misrepresented as a poverty stricken, 'third world' developing nation.
The compilation does not carry my own written articles or research, except an occasional
note or two. Hope it would serve as an eye-opener for the current generation.
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The Magnitude of Muslim Atrocities

(Ghazanavi to Amir Timur)

The world famous historian, Will Durant has written in his Story of Civilisation that "the Mohammedan
conquest of India was probably the bloodiest story in history".

India before the advent of Islamic imperialism was not exactly a zone of peace. There were plenty of wars
fought by Hindu princes. But in all their wars, the Hindus had observed some time-honoured conventions
sanctioned by the Sastras. The Brahmins and the Bhikshus were never molested. The cows were never killed.
The temples were never touched. The chastity of women was never violated. The non-combatants were never
killed or captured. A human habitation was never attacked unless it was a fort. The civil population was never
plundered. War booty was an unknown item in the calculations of conquerors. The martial classes who
clashed, mostly in open spaces, had a code of honor. Sacrifice of honor for victory or material gain was
deemed as worse than death.
Islamic imperialism came with a different code--the Sunnah of the Prophet. It required its warriors to fall
upon the helpless civil population after a decisive victory had been won on the battlefield. It required them to
sack and burn down villages and towns after the defenders had died fighting or had fled. The cows, the
Brahmins, and the Bhikshus invited their special attention in mass murders of non-combatants. The temples
and monasteries were their special targets in an orgy of pillage and arson. Those whom they did not kill, they
captured and sold as slaves. The magnitude of the booty looted even from the bodies of the dead, was a
measure of the success of a military mission. And they did all this as mujahids (holy warriors) and ghazls
(kafir-killers) in the service of Allah and his Last Prophet.
Hindus found it very hard to understand, the psychology of this new invader. For the first time in their history,
Hindus were witnessing a scene which was described by Kanhadade Prabandha (1456 AD) in the following
words:
"The conquering army burnt villages, devastated the land, plundered people's wealth, took Brahmins and
children and women of all classes captive, flogged with thongs of raw hide, carried a moving prison with it,
and converted the prisoners into obsequious Turks."
That was written in remembrance of Alauddin Khalji's invasion of Gujarat in the year l298 AD. But the
gruesome game had started three centuries earlier when Mahmud Ghaznavi had vowed to invade India every
year in order to destroy idolatry, kill the kafirs, capture prisoners of war, and plunder vast wealth for which
India was well-known.

MAHMUD AND MASOOD GHAZNAVI

In 1000 AD Mahmud defeated Raja Jaipal, a scion of the Hindu Shahiya dynasty of Kabul. This dynasty had
been for long the doorkeeper of India in the Northwest. Mahmud collected 250,000 dinars as indemnity. That
perhaps was normal business of an empire builder. But in 1004 AD he stormed Bhatiya and plundered the
place. He stayed there for some time to convert the Hindus to Islam with the help of mullahs he had brought
with him.
In 1008 AD he captured Nagarkot (Kangra). The loot amounted to 70,000,000 dirhams in coins and 700,400
mans of gold and silver, besides plenty of precious stones and embroidered cloths. In 1011 AD he plundered
Thanesar which was undefended, destroyed many temples, and broke a large number of idols. The chief idol,
that of Chakraswamin, was taken to Ghazni and thrown into the public square for defilement under the feet of
the faithful. According to Tarikh-i-Yamini of Utbi, Mahmud's secretary,
"The blood of the infidels flowed so copiously [at Thanesar] that the stream was discolored, notwithstanding
its purity, and people were unable to drink it. The Sultan returned with plunder which is impossible to count.
Praise he to Allah for the honor he bestows on Islam and Muslims."
In 1013 AD Mahmud advanced against Nandana where the Shahiya king, Anandapal, had established his new
capital. The Hindus fought very hard but lost. Again, the temples were destroyed, and innocent citizens
slaughtered. Utbi provides an account of the plunder and the prisoners of war:
"The Sultan returned in the rear of immense booty, and slaves were so plentiful that they became very cheap
and men of respectability in their native land were degraded by becoming slaves of common shopkeepers.
But this is the goodness of Allah, who bestows honor on his own religion and degrades infidelity."
The road was now clear for an assault on the heartland of Hindustan. In December 1018 AD Mahmud crossed
the Yamuna, collected 1,000,000 dirhams from Baran (Bulandshahar), and marched to Mahaban in Mathura
district. Utbi records:
• "The infidels...deserted the fort and tried to cross the foaming river...but many of them were slain, taken or
drowned... Nearly fifty thousand men were killed."
Mathura was the next victim. Mahmud seized five gold idols weighing 89,300 missals and 200 silver idols.
According to Utbi, "The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naptha and fire, and
levelled with the ground." The pillage of the city continued for 20 days. Mahmud now turned towards Kanauj
which had been the seat of several Hindu dynasties. Utbi continues: "In Kanauj there were nearly ten
thousand temples... Many of the inhabitants of the place fled in consequence of witnessing the fate of their
deaf and dumb idols. Those who did not fly were put to death. The Sultan gave his soldiers leave to plunder
and take prisoners."
The Brahmins of Munj, which was attacked next, fought to the last man after throwing their wives and
children into fire. The fate of Asi was sealed when its ruler took fright and fled. According to Utbi, ".... the
Sultan ordered that his five forts should be demolished from their foundations, the inhabitants buried in their
ruins, and the soldiers of the garrison plundered, slain and captured".
Shrawa, the next important place to be invaded, met the same fate. Utbi concludes:

• "The Muslims paid no regard to the booty till they had satiated themselves with the slaughter of the infidels
and worshipers of sun and fire. The friends of Allah searched the bodies of the slain for three days in order
to obtain booty...The booty amounted in gold and silver, rubies and pearls nearly to three hundred thousand
dirhams, and the number of prisoners may be conceived from the fact that each was sold for two to ten
dirhams. These were afterwards taken to Ghazni and merchants came from distant cities to purchase them,
so that the countries of Mawaraun-Nahr, Iraq and Khurasan were filled with them, and the fair and the
dark, the rich and the poor, were commingled in one common slavery."
Mahmud's sack of Somnath is too well-known to be retold here. What needs emphasizing is that the
fragments of the famous Sivalinga were carried to Ghazni. Some of them were turned into steps of the Jama
Masjid in that city. The rest were sent to Mecca, Medina, and Baghdad to be desecrated in the same manner.
Mahmud's son Masud tried to follow in the footsteps of his father. In 1037 AD he succeeded in sacking the
fort of Hansi which was defended very bravely by the Hindus. The Tarikh-us-Subuktigin records: "The
Brahmins and other high ranking men were slain, and their women and children were carried away captive,
and all the treasure which was found was distributed among the army."
Masud could not repeat the performance due to his preoccupations elsewhere.

MUHAMMAD GHORI AND HIS LEUTENANTS

Invasion of India by Islamic imperialism was renewed by Muhmmad Ghori in the last quarter of the 12th
century. After Prithiviraj Chauhan had been defeated in 1192 AD, Ghori took Ajmer by assault.
According the Taj-ul-Ma'sir of Hasan Nizami, "While the Sultan remained at Ajmer, he destroyed the pillars
and foundations of the idol temples and built in their stead mosques and colleges and precepts of Islam, and
the customs of the law were divulged and established."
Next year he defeated Jayachandra of Kanauj. A general massacre, rapine, and pillage followed. The
Gahadvad treasuries at Asni and Varanasi were plundered. Hasan Nizami rejoices that "in Benares which is
the centre of the country of Hind, they destroyed one thousand temples and raised mosques on their
foundations".
According to Kamil-ut-Tawarikh of Ibn Asir, "The slaughter of Hindus (at Varanasi) was immense; none were
spared except women and children, and the carnage of men went on until the earth was weary."
The women and children were spared so that they could be enslaved and sold all over the Islamic world. It
may be added that the Buddhist complex at Sarnath was sacked at this time, and the Bhikshus were
slaughtered.
Ghori's lieutenant Qutbuddin Aibak was also busy meanwhile. Hasan Nizami writes that after the suppression
of a Hindu revolt at Kol (modern day Aligarh) in 1193 AD, Aibak raised "three bastions as high as heaven
with their heads, and their carcases became food for beasts of prey. The tract was freed from idols and idol
worship and the foundations of infidelism were destroyed."
In 1194 AD Aibak destroyed 27 Hindu temples at Delhi and built the Quwwat-ul-lslam mosque with their
debris. According to Nizami, Aibak "adorned it with the stones and gold obtained from the temples which had
been demolished by elephants".
In 1195 AD the Mher tribe of Ajmer rose in revolt, and the Chaulukyas of Gujarat came to their assistance.
Aibak had to invite reinforcements from Ghazni before he could meet the challenge. In 1196 AD he advanced
against Anahilwar Patan, the capital of Gujarat. Nizami writes that after Raja Karan was defeated and forced
to flee, "fifty thousand infidels were dispatched to hell by the sword" and "more than twenty thousand slaves,
and cattle beyond all calculation fell into the hands of the victors".
The city was sacked, its temples demolished, and its palaces plundered. On his return to Ajmer, Aibak
destroyed the Sanskrit College of Visaladeva, and laid the foundations of a mosque which came to be known
as 'Adhai Din ka Jhompada'.
Conquest of Kalinjar in 1202 AD was Aibak's crowning achievement. Nizami concludes: "The temples were
converted into mosques... Fifty thousand men came under the collar of slavery and the plain became black as
pitch with Hindus."
A free-lance adventurer, Muhammad Bakhtyar Khalji, was moving further east. In 1200 AD he sacked the
undefended university town of Odantpuri in Bihar and massacred the Buddhist monks in the monasteries. In
1202 AD he took Nadiya by surprise. Badauni records in his Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh that "property and
booty beyond computation fell into the hands of the Muslims and Muhammad Bakhtyar having destroyed the
places of worship and idol temples of the infidels founded mosques and Khanqahs".

THE SLAVE (MAMLUK) SULTANS

Shamsuddin Iltutmish who succeeded Aibak at Delhi invaded Malwa in 1234 AD. He destroyed an ancient
temple at Vidisha. Badauni reports in his 'Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh':
• "Having destroyed the idol temple of Ujjain which had been built six hundred years previously, and was
called Mahakal, he levelled it to its foundations, and threw down the image of Rai Vikramajit from whom
the Hindus reckon their era, and brought certain images of cast molten brass and placed them on the
ground in front of the doors of mosques of old Delhi, and ordered the people of trample them under foot."
Muslim power in India suffered a serious setback after Iltutmish. Balkan had to battle against a revival of
Hindu power. The Katehar Rajputs of what came to be known as Rohilkhand in later history, had so far
refused to submit to Islamic imperialism. Balkan led an expedition across the Ganges in 1254 AD. According
to Badauni,
• "In two days after leaving Delhi, he arrived in the midst of the territory of Katihar and put to death every
male, even those of eight years of age, and bound the women."
But in spite of such wanton cruelty, Muslim power continued to decline till the Khaljis revived it after 1290
AD.

THE KHALJIS
Jalaluddin Khalji led an expedition to Ranthambhor in 1291 AD. On the way he destroyed Hindu temples at
Chain. The broken idols were sent to Delhi to be spread before the gates of the Jama Masjid. His nephew
Alauddin led an expedition to Vidisha in 1292 AD. According to Badauni in Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh,
Alauddin "brought much booty to the Sultan and the idol which was the object of worship of the Hindus, he
caused to be cast in front of the Badaun gate to be trampled upon by the people. The services of Alauddin
were highly appreciated, the jagir of Oudh (or Avadh - Central U.P.) also was added to his other estates."
Alauddin became Sultan in 1296 AD after murdering his uncle and father-in-law, Jalaluddin. In 1298 AD he
equipped an expedition to Gujarat under his generals Ulugh Khan and Nusrat Khan. The invaders plundered
the ports of Surat and Cambay. The temple of Somnath, which had been rebuilt by the Hindus, was plundered
and the idol taken to Delhi for being trodden upon by the Muslims. The whole region was subjected to fire
and sword, and Hindus were slaughtered en masse. Kampala Devi, the queen of Gujarat, was captured along
with the royal treasury, brought to Delhi and forced into Alauddin's harem. The doings of the Malik Naib
during his expedition to South India in 1310-1311 AD have already mentioned in earlier parts.

THE TUGHLAQS
Muslim power again suffered a setback after the death of Alauddin Khalji in 1316 AD. But it was soon
revived by the Tughlaqs. By now most of the famous temples over the length and breadth of the Islamic
occupation in India had been demolished, except in Orissa and Rajasthan which had retained their
independence. By now most of the rich treasuries had been plundered and shared between the Islamic state
and its swordsmen. Firuz Shah Tughlaq led an expedition to Orissa in 1360 AD. He destroyed the temple of
Jagannath at Puri, and desecrated many other Hindu shrines. According to 'Sirat-i-Firoz Shahi' which he
himself wrote or dictated,
"Allah who is the only true God and has no other emanation, endowed the king of Islam with the strength to
destroy this ancient shrine on the eastern sea-coast and to plunge it into the sea, and after its destruction he
ordered the image of Jagannath to be perforated, and disgraced it by casting it down on the ground. They dug
out other idols which were worshipped by the polytheists in the kingdom of Jajnagar and overthrew them as
they did the image of Jagannath, for being laid in front of the mosques along the path of the Sunnis and the
way of the 'musallis' (Muslim congregation for namaz) and stretched them in front of the portals of every
mosque, so that the body and sides of the images might be trampled at the time of ascent and descent,
entrance and exit, by the shoes on the feet of the Muslims."
After the sack of the temples in Orissa, Firoz Shah Tughlaq attacked an island on the sea-coast where "nearly
100,000 men of Jajnagar had taken refuge with their women, children, kinsmen and relations". The
swordsmen of Islam turned "the island into a basin of blood by the massacre of the unbelievers".
A worse fate overtook the Hindu women. Sirat-i-Firuz Shahs records: "Women with babies and pregnant
ladies were haltered, manacled, fettered and enchained, and pressed as slaves into service in the house of
every soldier."
Still more horrible scenes were enacted by Firuz Shah Tughlaq at Nagarkot (Kangra) where he sacked the
shrine of Jvalamukhi. Firishta records that the Sultan "broke the idols of Jvalamukhi, mixed their fragments
with the flesh of cows and hung them in nose bags round the necks of Brahmins. He sent the principal idol as
trophy to Medina."

THE PROVINCIAL MUSLIM SATRAPS

In 1931 AD the Muslims of Gujarat complained to Nasiruddin Muhammad, the Tughlaq Sultan of Delhi, that
the local governor, Kurhat-ul-Mulk, was practising tolerance towards the Hindus. The Sultan immediately
appointed Muzzaffar Khan as the new Governor. He became independent after the death of the Delhi Sultan
and assumed the title of Muzzaffar Shah in 1392 AD. Next year he led an expidition to Somnath and sacked
the temple which the Hindus had built once again. He killed many Hindus to chastise them for this
"impudence," and raised a mosque on the site of the ancient temple. The Hindus, however, restarted restoring
the temple soon after. In 1401 AD Muzaffar came back with a huge army. He again killed many Hindus,
demolished the temple once more, and erected another mosque.
Muzaffar was succeeded by his grandson, Ahmad Shah, in 1411 AD. Three years later Ahmad appointed a
special darogah to destroy all temples throughout Gujarat. In 1415 AD Ahmad invaded Sidhpur where he
destroyed the images in Rudramahalaya, and converted the grand temple into a mosque. Sidhpur was
renamed Sayyadpur.
Mahmud Begrha who became the Sultan of Gujarat in 1458 AD was the worst fanatic of this dynasty. One of
his vassals was the Mandalika of Junagadh who had never withheld the regular tribute. Yet in 1469 AD
Mahmud invaded Junagadh. In reply to the Mandalika's protests, Mahmud said that he was not interested in
money as much as in the spread of Islam. The Mandalika was forcibly converted to Islam and Junagadh was
renamed Mustafabad. In 1472 AD Mahmud attacked Dwarka, destroyed the local temples, and plundered the
city. Raja Jaya Singh, the ruler of Champaner, and his minister were murdered by Mahmud in cold blood for
refusing to embrace Islam after they had been defeated and their country pillaged and plundered. Champaner
was renamed Mahmudabad.
Mahmud Khalji of Malwa (1436-69 AD) also destroyed Hindu temples and built mosques on their sites. He
heaped many more insults on the Hindus. Ilyas Shah of Bengal (1339-1379 AD) invaded Nepal and destroyed
the temple of Svayambhunath at Kathmandu. He also invaded Orissa, demolished many temples, and
plundered many places. The Bahmani sultans of Gulbarga and Bidar considered it meritorious to kill a
hundred thousand Hindu men, women, and children every year. They demolished and desecrated temples all
over South India.

AMlR TIMUR
The climax came during the invasion of Timur in 1399 AD. He starts by quoting the Quran in his Tuzk-i-
Timuri: "O Prophet, make war upon the infidels and unbelievers, and treat them severely."
He continues: "My great object in invading Hindustan had been to wage a religious war against the infidel
Hindus...[so that] the army of Islam might gain something by plundering the wealth and valuables of the
Hindus." To start with he stormed the fort of Kator on the border of Kashmir. He ordered his soldiers "to kill
all the men, to make prisoners of women and children, and to plunder and lay waste all their property". Next,
he "directed towers to be built on the mountain of the skulls of those obstinate unbelievers". Soon after, he
laid siege to Bhatnir defended by Rajputs. They surrendered after some fight, and were pardoned. But Islam
did not bind Timur to keep his word given to the "unbelievers". His Tuzk-i-Timuri records:
• "In a short space of time all the people in the fort were put to the sword, and in the course of one hour the
heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all
the goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year had been stored in the fort
became the spoil of my soldiers. They set fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the
buildings and the fort to the ground."
At Sarsuti, the next city to be sacked, "all these infidel Hindus were slain, their wives and children were made
prisoners and their property and goods became the spoil of the victors". Timur was now moving through
(modern day) Haryana, the land of the Jats. He directed his soldiers to "plunder and destroy and kill every
one whom they met". And so the soldiers "plundered every village, killed the men, and carried a number of
Hindu prisoners, both male and female".
Loni which was captured before he arrived at Delhi was predominantly a Hindu town. But some Muslim
inhabitants were also taken prisoners. Timur ordered that "the Musulman prisoners should be separated and
saved, but the infidels should all be dispatched to hell with the proselytizing sword".
By now Timur had captured 100,000 Hindus. As he prepared for battle against the Tughlaq army after
crossing the Yamuna, his Amirs advised him "that on the great day of battle these 100,000 prisoners could not
be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolators and
enemies of Islam at liberty". Therefore, "no other course remained but that of making them all food for the
sword".
Tuzk-i-Timuri continues:
• "I proclaimed throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and
whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this
 order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. One
hundred thousand infidels, impious idolators, were on that day slain. Maulana Nasiruddin Umar, a
counselor and man of learning, who, in all his life, had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my
order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives."
The Tughlaq army was defeated in the battle that ensued next day. Timur entered Delhi and learnt that a
"great number of Hindus with their wives and children, and goods and valuables, had come into the city from
all the country round".
He directed his soldiers to seize these Hindus and their property. Tuzk-i-Timuri concludes:
• "Many of them (Hindus) drew their swords and resisted...The flames of strife were thus lighted and spread
through the whole city from Jahanpanah and Siri to Old Delhi, burning up all it reached. The Hindus set
fire to their houses with their own hands, burned their wives and children in them and rushed into the fight
and were killed...On that day, Thursday, and all the night of Friday, nearly 15,000 Turks were engaged in
slaying, plundering and destroying. When morning broke on Friday, all my army ...went off to the city and
thought of nothing but killing, plundering and making prisoners....The following day, Saturday the 17th, all
passed in the same way, and the spoil was so great.that each man secured from fifty to a hundred prisoners,
men, women, and children. There was no man who took less than twenty. The other booty was immense in
rubies, diamonds, garnets, pearls, and other gems and jewels; ashrafis, tankas of gold and silver of the
celebrated Alai coinage: vessels of gold and silver; and brocades and silks of great value. Gold and silver
ornaments of Hindu women were obtained in such quantities as to exceed all account. Excepting the
quarter of the Saiyids, the Ulama and the other Musulmans, the whole city was sacked."

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Akbar, The Great

A Tyrannical Monarch

Introduction

History of India has witnessed innumerable invasions by hoards of armed marauders coming in from the
west, perhaps attracted to the riches and wealth India then possessed. Apart from looting of wealth and
destruction of property, the 'aliens' who remained, who committed grave atrocities against the local populace,
and themselves, wallowing in immoral and unethical behaviour; except for one, it is said, Akbar.
Akbar, the third generation Moghal emperor who lived from 1542-1605 A.D, has been extolled as the greatest
of all Moghals, righteous in deed and noble in character. He is praised to be the only and truly secular
Emperor of the times, very caring and protective of his subjects. However, assessment and analysis of
contemporary notings expose this unjustified edification of Akbar and provides a remarkably different picture
of Akbar's personality.
The following is not a comprehensive report on Akbar's reign, but an attempt to provide a summary to the
reader, on the real nature of Akbar based on contemporary records. It is hoped that the reader will make a
judgement on Akbar's "greatness" based on the information provided below.

Akbar's Ancestors
Akbar's ancestors were barbarous and vicious, and so were his descendants like Aurangzeb and others' down
the line. Akbar was born and brought up in a illiterate and foul atmosphere characterized by excessive
drinking, womanizing and drug addiction. Vincent Smith in "Akbar - The Great Mogul" (p.294) writes, "
Intemperance was the besetting sin of the Timuroid royal family, as it was of many other muslim ruling
houses. Babur (was) an elegant toper ... Humayun made himself stupid with opium ... Akbar permitted
himself the practices of both vices .. Akbar's two sons died in early manhood from chronic alcoholism, and
their elder brother was saved from the same fate by a strong constitution, and not by virtue." With such an
atmosphere to nourish Akbar's thoughts, it is rather unsual for Akbar to become "divine incarnate"!
Describing the demoniac pleasure which Babur used to derive by raising towers of heads of people he used to
slaughter, Col. Tod writes that after defeating Rana Sanga at Fatehpur Sikri "triumphal pyriamids were raised
of the heads of the slain, and on a hillock which overlooked the field of the battle, a tower of skulls was
erected and the conquerer Babur assumed the title of Ghazi." (p.246). Akbar seems to have preserved this
"great" legacy of erecting minarets as is obvious from the accounts of battles he fought.
Humayun, the son of Babar, was even more degenerate and cruel than his father. After repeated battles,
Humayum captured his elder brother Kamran and subjected the latter to brutal torture. A detailed account is
left by Humayun's servant Jauhar and is quoted by Smith (p.20), which says, " .. (Humayun) had little
concerns for his brother's sufferings .. One of the men was sitting on Kamran's knees. He was pulled out of
the tent and a lancet was thrust into his eyes .. Some lemon juice and salt was put into his eyes .. After
sometime he was put on horseback." One can imagine the cruelty and torture that Humayun was capable of
inflicting on others when he subjected to his own brother to such atrocities. Humayun was also a slave to
opium habit, engaged in excessive alcohol consumption and a lecherous degenarate when it came to women
(Shelat, p.27). He is also known to have married a 14 year old Hamida Begum by force. The cruelties
perpetrated by of Akbar's descendants (Jehangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, etc.) are not entirely different from
those of his ancestors. Having brought up in the company and under the guidance of a lineage of drug addicts,
drunkards and sadists, it is rather anamalous that Akbar held such a gentle and noble character. Even
assuming that he fancied nobility, it is amazing that Akbar let his comtemporaries and Generals, like Peer
Mohammad, loot and rape the helpless citizenry that he was ruling! It would however be interesting to
observe the incidents in Akbar's reign and evaluate his character.

Akbar's (Immoral) Character and Nature

Akbar possessed a inordinate lust for women, just like his ancestors and predecessors. One of Akbar's
motives during his wars of aggression against various rulers was to appropriate their women, daughters and
sisters. The Rajput women of Chittor prefered "Jauhar" (immolation) than to be captured and disrespectfully
treated as servants and prostitutes in Akbar's harem. On his licentous relations with women, Smith refers to a
contemporary Jesuits testimony (p.81) thus, "... Akbar habitually drank hard. The good father had boldly
dared to reprove the emperor sharply for his licentous relations with women. Akbar instead of resenting the
priests audacity, blushingly excused himself." Both drinking and enganging in debauched sexual activities
was inherited by Akbar from his ancestors.
Abul Fazl in Ain-i-Akbari (Blochmann,V.1,p.276), ".. His majesty has established a wine shop near the palace
... The prostitues of the realm collected at the shop could scarcely be counter, so large was their number .. The
dancing girls used to be taken home by the courtiers. If any well known courtier wanted to have a virgin they
should first have His Majesty's [Akbar's] permission. In the same way, boys prostituted themselves, and
drunkeness and ignorance soon lead to bloodshed ... His Majesty [Akbar] himself called some of the
prostitutes and asked them who had deprived them of their virginity?" This was the state of affairs during
Akbar's rule, where alcoholism, sodomy, prostitution and murderous assaults were permitted by the king
himself. The conditions of the civic life during Akbar's life is shocking!
Sodomy was a precious service of Akbar's own family. Babur, Akbar's grandfather, has given a lengthy
description of this sodomic infatuation for a male sweetheart. Humayun was no different. Though perhaps
Akbar did not engage in sodomy, he "allowed" it to be practiced by his servants, courtiers and sycophats.
Abul Fazal in Ain-e-Akbari provides accounts of some such acts which are too disgusting to even mention.
Such perverse gratification was prevelant during the Moghal rule, and in Akbar's times.
That Akbar remained monogamous throughout his life is indeed history falsified myth. Again quoting
V.Smith (pp.47),".. Akbar, throughout his life, allowed himself ample latitude in the matter of wives and
concubines!" and further, " Akbar had introduced a whole host of Hindu the daughters of eminent Hindu
Rajah's into his harem." (pp.212). An account of how the Jaipur rulers were coerced into sending their
daughters to the Mogul harem is found in Dr. Srivastava's book Akbar - The Mogul (Vol.1). Shelat notes (p.
90)," (after the "Jauhar" that followed the killing of Rani Durgawati) the two women left alive, Kamalavati
(sister of Rani Durgawati) and the daughter of the Raja of Purangad (daughter-in-law of the deceased queen)
were sent to Agra to enter Akbar's harem." It should also be observed that adimittance into Akbar's harem was
available mainly to virgins and others' were "disqualified". Inspite of such disgusting and lewd personal
affairs, inducting women of abducted or killed Hindu warriors into his harem as slaves and prostitutes, it is
bewildering that Akbar is hailed as a righteous and noble emperor.
The personality and nature of Akbar has been nicely summed up by the Editor of Father Monserrate's
Commentarius. The editor's introduction states, "In the long line of Indian soverigns, the towering
personalities of Ashoka and Akbar (because of his dread) stand high above the rest... Akbar's greed for
conquest and glory and his lack of sincerity form a marked contrast to Ashoka's paternal rule, genuine self-
control and spiritual ambition. Akbar's wars were those of a true descendent of Timur, and had all the
gruesome associations which this fact implies."
"The old notion that Akbar's was a near approximation to Plato's philosopher king has been dissipated by
modern resarches. His character with its mixture of ambition and cunning has now been laid bare. He has
been rightly compared to a pike in a pond preying upon his weaker neighbours .. Akbar was unable to give up
his polygamous habits, for no importance needs to be attached to the bazaar gossip of the time that he once
intended to distribute his wives among his grandees."
Whole of India was reduced to a brothel during the Moghal rule and Akbar, one of the Emperors, is being
glorified as one of the patrons of the vast brothel. The above instances may suffice to convince the impartial
reader that Akbar's whole career was a saga of uninhibited licentiousness backed by the royal brute.

Akbar's Barbarites
Glancing at the events in the reign of Akbar, it is a compelling deduction that he was no less cruel a tyrant
than any of his ancestors. With his trecherous nature and the unlimited power than he wielded over a vast
region qualifies him to be one of the foremost tyrants and sadists in India's history, or perhaps, even world
history.
Vincent Smith (p.50) says that in a privately executing Kamran's son [namely, Akbar's own cousin] at
Gwalior in 1565, ".. Akbar set an evil example, initiated on a large scale by his descendents Shahjahan and
Aurangzeb." This does not cause a serious alarm knowing the percious heritage of duplicity and trechery
handed down to Akbar by his ancestors. Generations of martial races (Rajputs) were cut off by his (Akbar)
sword ... he was long ranked with Shahbuddin and Alla (Allauddin) and other instruments of destruction, and
with every just claim; and like these he constructed a Mumbar (a pulpit for islamic preachers) for the Koran
from the altar of Eklingji (the deity of the Rajput warriors)." (Todd, p.259) Not only that he forcibly
annihilated innumerable humans, he also had no respect for temples and deities and willingly indulged in
destruction of such places of worship.

NOTE: (Yes, the Indian government has named a road in honor of Akbar the 'great' - 'Akbar
Road. There is an Akbar Road, a Humayun Road and a Babar Road in New Delhi's central
locations glorifying these tyrants who changed and defaced the Indian history with their
barbaric acts of mass killing, looting and rape of innocent civilians. Interesting huh? All
glories to demoncracy!)
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Destruction of Hindu Temples by Aurangzeb

By Rajiv Varma
Background

Islamic literary sources provide far more extensive evidence of temple destruction by the Muslim invaders of
India in medieval times. They also cover a large area, from Sinkiang and Transoxiana in the North to Tamil
Nadu in the South, and from Siestan province of present day Iran in the West to Assam in the East. This vast
area, which was long the cradle of hindu culture, came to be littered with the ruins of temples and
monasteries, belonging to all schools of Santana Dharma - Baudhha, Jaina, Shaiva, Sakta, Vaishnava, and the
rest. Archeological explorations and excavations in modern times have proved unmistakably that most of the
mosques, mazars, ziarats and dargahs which were built in this area, stood on the sites of and were made from
the materials of deliberately demolished Hindu monuments.
Hundreds of medieval muslim historians who flourished in India and elsewhere in the world of Islam, have
written detailed accounts of what their heroes did in various parts of the extensive Hindu homeland as they
were invaded one after another. It is alear from the literary evidence collected alone that all Muslim rulers
destroyed or desecrated Hindu temples whenever and whereever they could. Archeological evidence from
various Muslim monuments, particularly mosques and dargahs, not only confirms the literary evidence but
also adds the names of some Muslim rulers whom Muslim historians have failed to credit with this pious
performance.
Some of the literary evidence of temple destruction during Aurangzeb's rule is listed below.
[Emphasis mine.]

1. "Mir'at-i-Alam" by Bakhtawar Khan

The author was a nobleman of Aurangzeb's court. He died in AD 1684. the history ascribed to him was really
compiled by Muhammad Baqa of Saharanpur who gave the name of his friend as its author. Baqa was a
prolific writer who was invited by Bakhtawar Khan to Aurangzeb's court and given a respectable rank. He
died in AD 1683.
Excerpts:
Muhiyu'd-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb 'Alamgir Padshah Ghazi (1658-1707) General Order
" ...Hindu writers have been entirely excluded from holding public offices, and ALL THE WORSHIPPING
PLACES OF THE INFIDELS AND GREAT TEMPLES of these infamous people HAVE BEEN THROWN
DOWN AND DESTROYED in a manner which excites astonishment at the successful completion of so
difficult a task. His Majesty personally teaches the sacred kalima to many infidels with success. ... All
mosques in the empire are repaired at public expense..."

2. "Alamgir-Nama" by Mirza Muhammad Kazim

This work, written in AD 1688 contains a history of the first ten years of Aurangzeb's reign.
Excerpts:
Muhiyu'd-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb 'Alamgir Padshah Ghazi (1658-1707) Palamau (Bihar)
" ...In 1661 Aurangzeb in his zeal to uphold the law of Islam sent orders to his viceroy in Bihar, Daud Khan,
to conquer Palamau. In the military operations that followed MANY TEMPLES WERE DESTROYED..."
Koch Bihar (Bengal)
" ...Towards the end of the same year when Mir Jumla made a war on the Raja of Kuch Bihar, the
MUGHALS DESTROYED MANY TEMPLES during the course of their operations. IDOLS WERE
BROKEN AND SOME TEMPLES WERE CONVERTED INTO MOSQUES. ..."

3. "Mas'ir-i-'Alamgiri" by Saqi Must'ad Khan

The author completed this history in 1710 at the behest of Inayatu''llah Khan Kashmiri, Aurangzeb's last
secretary and favorite disciple in state policy and religiosity. The materials which Must'ad Khan used in this
history of Aurangzeb's reign came mostly from the State archives.
Excerpts:
Muhiyu'd-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb 'Alamgir Padshah Ghazi (1658-1707) General Order
"...The Lord Cherisher of the faith learnt that in the provinces of Tatta, Multan, and especially at Benaras, the
Brahmin misbelievers used to teach their false books in their established schools, and that admirers and
students both Hindu and Muslim, used to come from great distances to these misguided men in order to
acquire this vile learning. His majesty, eager to establish Islam, issues orders to the governors of all the
provinces TO DEMOLISH THE SCHOOLS AND TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS and with utmost urgency
put down the teaching and the public practice of the religion of these misbelievers..."

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)

" ...It was reported that, according to the Emperor's command, his officers HAD DEMOLISHED THE
TEMPLE OF VISHWANATH AT KASHI. ..." Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)
" ... During this month of Ramzan abounding in miracles, the Emperor as the promoter of justice and
overthrower of mischief, as the knower of truth and destroyer of oppression, as the zephyr of the garden of
victory and the reviver of the faith of the Prophet, ISSUED ORDERS FOR THE DEMOLITION OF THE
TEMPLE SITUATED IN MATHURA< FAMOUS AS THE DEHRA OF KESHO RAI. In the short time by
the great exertions of his officers the DESTRUCTION OF THIS STRONG FOUNDATION OF INFIDELITY
WAS ACCOMPLISHED< AND ON ITS SITE A LOFTY MOSQUE WAS BUILT at the expenditure of a
large sum..."
" ...Praised be the August God of the faith of Islam, that in the auspicious reign of this DESTROYER OF
INFIDELITY AND TURBULENCE, such a wonderful and seemingly impossible work was successfully
accomplished. On seeing this instance of strength of the Emperor's faith and the grandeur of his devotion to
God, the proud Rajas were stifled and in amazement they stood like images facing the wall. THE IDOLS,
LARGE AND SMALL< SET WITH COSTLY JEWELS WHIC HAD BEEN SET UP IN THE TEMPLE
WERE BROUGHT TO AGRA< AND BURIED UNDER THE STEPS OF THE MOSQUE OF BEGUM
SAHIB, IN ORDER TO BE CONTINUALLY TRODDEN UPON. The name of Mathura was changed to
Islamabad. ..."

Khandela (Rajasthan)
" ... Darab Khan who had been sent with a strong force to punish the Rajputs of Khandela and TO
DEMOLISH THE GREAT TEMPLE OF THE PLACE, attacked on March 8th/Safar 5th, and slew the three
hundred and odd men who made a bold defence, not one of them escaping alive. THE TEMPLES OF
KHANDELA AND SANULA AND ALL OTHER TEMPLES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WERE
DEMOLISHED ..."
Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
" ... On 24th Rabi S. (Sunday, May 25th), Khan Jahan Bahadur came from Jodhpur, AFTER DEMOLISHING
THE TEMPLES and bringing with himself some cart-loads of idols, and had audience of the Emperor, who
higly praised him and ordered that the idols, which were mostly jewelled, golden, silver, bronze, copper, or
stone, should be cast in the yard (jilaukhanah) of the Court AND UNDER THE STEPS OF THE JAMA
MOSQUE, TO BE TRODDEN UPON..."

Udaipur (Rajasthan)
" ... Ruhullah Khan and Ekkataz Khan WENT TO DEMOLISH THE GREAT TEMPLE in front of the Rana's
palace, which was one of the rarest buildings of the age and the chief cause of the destruction of the life and
property of the despised worshippers. Twenty 'machator' Rajputs who were sitting in the Temple vowed to
give up their lives; first one of them came out to fight, killed some and was them himself slain, then came out
another and so on, until every one of the twenty perished, after killing a large number of the imperialists
including the trusted slave Ikhlas. The Temple was found empty. THE HEWERS BROKE THE IMAGES. ..."
" ...On Saturday, the 24th January, 1680 (2nd Muharram), the Emperor went to view lake Udaisagar,
constructed by the Rana, AND ORDERED ALL THE THREE TEMPLES ON ITS BANKS TO BE
DEMOLISHED. ..."
" ...On the 29th January/7th Muharram, Hasan Ali Khan brought to the Emperor twenty camel-loads of tents
and other things captured from the Rana's Palace and REPORTED THAT ONE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-TWO OTHER TEMPLES IN THE ENVIRONS OF UDAIPUR HAD BEEN DESTROYED. The
Khan received the title of Bahadur Alamgirshahi..."

Amber (Rajasthan)
"... Abu Turab, who had been SENT TO DEMOLISH THE TEMPLES of AMBER, returned to the Court on
Tuesday August 10th (Rajab 24th), and reported that HE HAD PULLED DOWN SIXTY-SIX TEMPLES. ..."

Bijapur (Karnataka)
" ... Hamiduddin Khan Bahadur WHO HAD GONE TO DEMOLISH A TEMPLE AND BUILD A MOSQUE
(IN ITS PLACE) in Bijapur, having excellently carried his orders, came to court and gained praise and the
post of darogha of gusulkhanah, which brought him near the Emperor's person..."

General Text
"...LARGE NUMBERS OF PLACES OF WORSHIP OF THE INFIDELS AND GREAT TEMPLES OF
THESE WICKED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THROWN DOWN AND DESOLATED. Men who can see only
the outside of things are filled with wonder at the successful accomplishment of such a seemingly difficult
task. AND ON THE SITES OF THE TEMPLES LOFTY MOSQUES HAVE BEEN BUILT..."

4. "Akhbarat"
These were reports from different provinces compiled in the reign of Aurangzeb.
Excerpts:
Muhiyu'd-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb 'Alamgir Padshah Ghazi (1658-1707)
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)
" ... The emporer learning that in the temple of Keshav Rai at Mathura there was a stone railing presented by
Dara Shikoh, remarked, 'In the Muslim faith it is a sin even to look at a temple, and this Dara Shikoh had
restored a railing in a temple. This fact is not creditable to the Muhammadans. REMOVE THE RAILING.'
By his order Abdun Nabi Khan (the faujdar of Mathura) REMOVED IT..."

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)

" ... News came from Malwa that Wazir Khan had sent Gada Beg, a slave, with 400 troopers, TO DESTROY
ALL TEMPLES AROUND UJJAIN... A Rawat of the place resisted and slew Gada Beg with 121 of his
men..."

Aurangabad (Maharashtra)
"...... The Emperor learnt from a secret news writer of Delhi that in Jaisinghpura Bairagis used to worship
idols, and that the Censor on hearing of it had gone there, arrested Sri Krishna Bairagis and taken him with 15
idols away to his house; then the Rajputs had assembled, flocked to the Censor's house, wounded three
footmen of the Censor and tried to seize the Censor himself; so that the latter set the Bairagis free and sent the
copper idols to the local subahdar ..."

Pandharpur (Maharashtra) .............

NOTE: (Its interesting to note that the Indian Government graciously named a major street
in the centre of New Delhi, the ancient country's capital in honor of Aurangzeb. Its called
'Aurangzeb Road' that is lined up with V.I.P. houses and bungalows of members of Indian
Parliament. But that's not all! As I mentioned before, there is an 'Akbar Road, a Humayun
Road, Shahjahan Road, Tughlaq Road and a Babar Road in New Delhi's central locations as
well glorifying these tyrants who changed and defaced the Indian history with their
barbaric acts of mass killing, looting and rape of innocent civilians! A glorifying memory for
us to remember these tyrants long departed to hell!)
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Kutub Minar: Its Origins

P.N.Oak

About the Kutub Minar itself there is overwhelming proof that it was a Hindu tower existing hundreds of
years before Kutubuddin and therefore it is wrong to ascribe the tower to Kutubuddin.
The township adjoining the Kutub Minar is known as Mehrauli. That is a Sanskrit word Mihira-awali. It
signifies the town- ship where the well known astronomer Mihira of Vikramaditya's court lived along with his
helpers, mathemati- cians and technicians. They used the so-called Kutub tower as an observation post for
astronomical study. Around the tower were pavilions dedicated to the 27 constel- lations of the Hindu Zodiac.
Kutubuddin has left us an inscription that he destroyed these pavilions. But he has not said that he raised any
tower. The ravaged temple was renamed as Kuwat-ul-Islam mosque.
Stones dislodged from the so-called Kutub Minar have Hindu images on one side with Arabic lettering on the
other. Those stones have now been removed to the Museum. They clearly show that Muslim invaders used to
remove the stone- dressing of Hindu buildings, turn the stones inside out to hide the image facial and inscribe
Arabic lettering on the new frontage.
Bits of Sanskrit inscriptions can still be deciphered in the premises on numerous pillars and walls. Numerous
images still adorn the cornices though disfigured.
The tower is but a part of the surrounding structures. It is not that while the temples around are earlier Hindu
build- ings there was sufficient space left in between for Kutubud- din to come and build a tower. Its very
ornate style proves that it is a Hindu tower. Mosque minarets have plane sur- faces. Those who contend that
the tower was meant to call the Muslim residents to prayer have perhaps never tried to go to the top and try to
shout to the people below. Had they done so they would have found out for themselves that no one on the
ground can hear them from that height. Such absurd claims have been made to justfy Muslim authorship of
earlier Hindu buildings.
Another important consideration is that the entrance to the tower faces north and not the west as is enjoined
by Islamic theology and practice.
At either side of the entrance is the stone lotus flower emblem which also proves that it was a Hindu building.
The stone flowers are a very important sign of the Hindu author- ship of mediaeval buildings. Muslims never
use such flowers on the buildings they construct.
The frieze Patterns on the tower show signs of tampering, ending abruptly or in a medley of incongruent
lines. The Arabic lettering is interspersed with Hindu motifs like lotus buds hanging limp. Sir Sayyad Ahmad
Khan, a staunch Muslim and a scholar, has admitted that the tower is a Hindu building.
If one were to hoover in an aeroplane over the top of the tower the various galleries sliding into each other
from top to bottom appear like a 24-petal lotus in full bloom. The figure 24 being a multiple of 8 is sacred in
Vedic tradi- tion. Even the brick red colour of the tower is sacred to the Hindus.
The Hindu title of the tower was Vishnu Dhwaj (i.e. Vishnu's standard) alias Vishnu Stambh alias Dhruv
Stambh (i.e., a polar pillar) obviously connoting an astronomical observa- tion tower. The Sanskrit inscription
in Brahmi script on the non-rusting iron pillar close by proclaims that the lofty standard of Vishnu was raised
on the hillock named Vishnupad Giri. That description indicates that a statue of the rec- lining Vishnu
initiating the creation was consecrated in the central shrine there which was ravaged by Mohammad Ghori
and his henchman Kutubuddin. The pillar was raised at the com- mand is an ancient Hindu king who had
made great conquests in the East and the West.
The tower had seven storeys representing the week of those only five exist now. The sixth was dismantled,
hauled down and re-erected on the lawns closeby.
The seventh storey had actually a statue of the four-faced Brahma holding the Vedas at the beginning of
creation. Above Brahma was a white marble canopy with gold bell patterns laid in it. The t top three stories
were in mle. They were ravaged by iconoclastic muslims who detested the Brahma sta- tue. The Muslim
raiders also destroyed the reclining Vishnu image at the bottom.
The iron pillar was the Garud Dhwaj alias Garud Stambh, i.e, the sentinel post of the Vishnu temple.
On one side was an elliptical enclave formed by 27 Nakshatra (constellation) temples. A gigantic red-stone,
ornate gate- way led to the sacred enclave known as Nakshatralaya. There- fore gateway is traditionally
known as Alaya-Dwar.
Cunningham twists the traditional Hindu name to fraudulently ascribe the great doorway to Sultan Allauddin
though Allaud- din himself makes no such claim.
By Allauddin's time the surroundings were totally crumbling ruins. Why would Allauddin want to raise an
ornate gigantic gatewwa(of the Hindu orange colour) leading from nowhere to nowhere ?
The theory propounded by interested Muslims that it is a muazzin's tower is a motivated lie. No muazzin
would even for a day adept a job where he has to climb and unclimb five times a day a flight of 365
narrowing, curving steps in the dark confines of the tower. He is bound to fall and die through sheer
exhaustion.
The arched gateway of the adjoining so-called Kuwat-ul-Islam mosque is in no way different from the ornate
archways of temples in Gujarat. The frieze patterns on this building too. The frieze patterns on this building
too show signs of tampering proving that Muslim conquerors transposed stones at random to ease their
conscience in readying earlier tem- ples for use as mosques.
The tower girth is made up of exactly 24 folds, arcs and triangles alternating. This shows that the figure 24
had social prominence and significance in the premises. The apertures for letting in light are 27. Considered
along with the 27 constellation pavilions mentioned earlier it leaves no doubt that the tower too was an
astronomical observation pole.
In Arabic the term 'Kutub Minar' signifies an astronomical Tower. That was how it was described to Sultan
and later referred to in court correspondence. In course of time the name of Sultan Kutubuddin came to be
un- wittingly associ- ated with the Kutub Tower leading to the misleading asser- tion that Kutubuddin built
the Kutub Minar.
Iron strips have been used to keep the huge boulders fastened together in the construction of the tower.
Similar strips have been used in the stone walls of Agra Fort. In my book Tajmahal was a Rajput Palace I
have already dealt at some length on the origin of the fort and proved that it existed during pre-muslim times.
Therefore it is apparent that the use of iron strips to keep together stones in huge buildings was a Hindu
device. That device used in the so- called Kutub Minar in Delhi another proof of its having been a pre-
Muslim Hindu tower. If a 24-petal lotus is pulled up from its centre it will form a tower of that pattern. Lotus
pattern is never Muslim.
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