For five days, starting Oct. The violence, however, was centered in Delhi. A series of anti-Sikh pogroms were launched after then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards. Hindu mobs attacked and destroyed the historical Babri Mosque in Ayodhya city of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The mosque was built by 16th-century Mughal Emperor Babur. The riots began on Dec. Some people were killed and 2, injured. Some 20, Muslim homes and businesses and places of worship were destroyed. Roughly, , people were displaced. The two-month violence took place when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state.
Support Our Journalism. According to me there are a lots of people in this planet who are literally fools. This article is not for them. Who are literally fools or fucked by pseudo history.
Violence is in Indian history First against lower castes by upper castes Against dravidiyans. Then now with minorities of Republic India.
India needs dictatorship to know the value of democracy. Which is already in progress now see will they succeed or not. However , the Marxist contention that the Hindu-Muslim riots in India have been nurtured by the British is totally false. Edward C.
Part of it has been thrown into the hippodrome of the town, together with the Cakrasvamin, an idol of bronze, that had been brought from Taneshar. II : Dr. Throughout the valley of the Ganges, from Thaneswar to Bihar , the most famous and therefore, the finest of the Hindu temples were ruthlessly overthrown, partly to persecute the idolaters, partly to furnish to the chief materials for mosques.
Of the places which escaped or resisted the fierce onslaught of Muhammad bin Sam and Iltitmish , some fell before the ruthless hand of Ala-ud —din Khilji and the remainder were swept away by the vindictive bigotry of Sikandar Lodi. The Muslim Turks, like the Spanish Catholic conquistadores in Mexico and Peru and elsewhere in America, sought to destroy the culture and religion of the land as the handiwork of Satan.
This is still today a very controversial subject, since Indian history books have chosen to keep quiet about this huge chunk of Indian history — nearly 10 centuries of horrors. At Independence, Nehru too, put it aside, perhaps because he thought that this was a topic which could divide India, as there was a strong Muslim minority which chose to stay and not emigrate to Pakistan.
And whatever happens in contemporary India, is a consequence of these invasions, whether it is the creation of Pakistan, whether it is Kashmir, whether it is Ayodhya, or Kargil. There is no point in passing a moral judgment on these invasions, as they are a thing of the past. And so as long as this concept is ingrained in the minds of Muslims, there will be a problem of tolerance, of tolerating other creeds.
And this is what happened in India from the 7th century onwards : invaders, who believed in one God, came upon this country which had a million gods… And for them it was the symbol of all what they thought was wrong.
So the genocide — and the word genocide has to be used — which was perpetrated was tremendous, because of the staunch resistance of the year old Hindu faith. Indeed, the Muslim policy vis a vis India seems to have been a conscious and systematic destruction of everything that was beautiful, holy, refined. Entire cities were burnt down and their populations massacred. Each successive campaign brought hundreds of thousands of victims and similar numbers were deported as slaves.
Every new invader often made literally his hill of Hindu skulls. The Bahmani sultans in central India, made it a rule to kill In , Teimur killed Thus, Indian students since the early twenties, were taught that that there never was a Muslim genocide on the person of Hindus, but rather that the Moghols brought great refinement to Indian culture. What are the facts, according to Muslim records? Aurangzeb did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all temples destroyed and mosques to be built on their site.
This genocide is still a reality which should not be wished away. Because what the Muslims invasions have done to India is to instil terror in the Hindu collective psyche, which still lingers many centuries later and triggers unconscious reactions.
The paranoia displayed today by Indians, their indiscipline, their lack of charity for their own brethren , the abject disregard of their environment, are a direct consequence of these invasions.
What India has to do today, is to look squarely at the facts pertaining to these invasions and come to term with them, without any spirit of vengeance, so as to regain a little bit of self-pride. It would also help the Muslim community of India to acknowledge these horrors, which paradoxically, were committed against them, as they are the Hindus who were then converted by force, their women raped, their children taken into slavery — even though today they have made theirs the religion which their ancestors once hate.
You need to study history before writing articles, as otherwise these are merely the ill-informed opinions of a ideologically prejudiced mind. The British took over India from the Marathas, and not from the mughals. The Marathas were the pre-eminent power in India, having defeated the mughals many decades earlier.
Moving on — if the absence of Hindu — Muslim riots is an indicator of religious freedom and harmony, then the Chinese Muslims must enjoy an exemplary degree of freedom, with brother relations between them and the han Chinese.
I wish to remind the Author that when Lord Clive rode on his horse into the town of Murshidabad after defeating Siraj-ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, people came out on the streets and showered rose petals on him. This is recorded history, written by British historians of the time. Hope this tells the Author how the Indic population viewed the likes of Siraj-ud-Daulah and his compatriots. The fact that there were no Hindu-Muslim strife then is primarily because the Muslims were the rulers and you do not riot against your rulers.
Once those rulers went and the British came to implement the Rule of Law, as the Author says, the Indic people regained their will and might to fight the injustice meted out to them by the virulent amongst the Muslims. There was still a lot of amity amongst the Indic people and the moderates amongst the Muslims and that is seen in many narratives of those times.
But to put a blanket statement that there were no riots back then indicated complete harmony between the two communities is at best a blatant lie. The british were right. After years of slavery ghulami when the hindu marathas came to power, these muslims actually invited ahmed shah abdali to save islam.
After the third battle of panipat, the next big battle for muslims was Yes the british did save us from muslim slavery. Or the mugal empire would still be alive and we would still be kowtowing to some zille illahi.
While the restrictions led to a decline in crime, civil clashes saw a significant hike. Cases of religious riots nearly doubled in compared to the previous year, according to a government report released Thursday.
The National Crime Records Bureau, in its annual report titled "Crime in India ," said cases of communal or religious rioting were registered in the country in the last year. Of the incidents of rioting, , more than half, were reported in the national capital of New Delhi, which was the center of demonstrations against a controversial citizenship law.
Since India gained independence in following a bloody partition, incidents of communal clashes between Hindu and Muslim communities have claimed thousands of lives. New Delhi saw the worst communal rioting in decades in February One of the relief camps for the victims of the riots has been set up inside an Eidgah, a large open-air mosque designated for Eid al-Fitr prayers.
Set up by the Delhi government, it now shelters about 1, people affected by the violence. It's located in the Mustafabad area of the Indian capital. It is hard to imagine whether the camps let these people forget what happened to them. They are living in trauma, pain and are clueless about how they will rebuild their lives.
The trigger for the riots was a citizenship law introduced last year that critics say marginalizes India's Muslim minority. Police data show at least 53 people, many of them Muslims, were killed and over were injured. This camp is segregated into two sections, with separate areas for men and women. The communal riots shocked Delhi residents, with many saying they never expected such violence to take place in their home city.
Children who were exposed to the violence have been left traumatized. Many schools were burnt down during the riots.
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