Foreign Invasions on India in Medieval Times - Causes, Events and their Impact

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Yeh sab aap isliye kar rahe hain kyonki aapki kai baatein udharan de kar palat di gayi thhi.

Well apart from being generously rewarded for putting forth my arguments, I was awarded infraction points even for my signature, this doesn't happen even on Pakistani forums. And that too for a quote from Gita, may be I would have been better served if I had quoted some verse from Quran regarding treatment to be met out to kafirs.



Anyway to return back to the discussion (that is assuming this reply sees light of the day),


In 1989, in West Bengal a circular (Dated 28/04/1989, Syl/89/1) was issued by the Government regarding Class IX textbooks. The circular issued amendments to the existing ashuddho history books to be incorporated into textbooks in subsequent editions, and as corrigendum for already published books. The suggested amendments have been reproduced here for the perusal of members,

Bharat Katha, by Burdwan Education Society

Page	Ashuddho	Shuddho
140	'In Sindhudesh the Arabs did not describe Hindus as Kafir. They had banned cow-slaughter.'	Delete, "They had banned cow-slaughter.
141	'Fourthly, using force to destroy Hindu temples was also an expression of aggression. Fifthly, forcibly marrying Hindu women and converting them to Islam before marriage was another way to propagate the fundamentalism of the ulema.'	though the ashuddho column reproduces the sentences only from 'Fourthly ...,' the Board directs that the entire matter from 'Secondly ... to ulema' be deleted.
141	'The logical, philosophical, materialist, Mutazilla disappeared. On the one hand, the fundamentalist thinking based on the Quran and the hadis....'	Delete, 'On the one hand, the fundamentalist thinking based on the Quran and the hadis

Bharatvarsher Itihash published by Chakravarty and Son

89	'Sultan Mahmud used force for widespread murder, loot, destruction and conversion.'	'There was widespread loot and destruction by Mahmud.'
89	'He looted valuables worth 2 crore dirham from the Somanth temple and used the Shivling as a step leading up to the masjid in Ghazni.'	Delete, 'and used the Shivling as a step leading up to the masjid in Ghazni.'
112	'Hindu-Muslim relations of the medieval ages constitute a very sensitive issue. The non-believers had to embrace Islam or death.'	All matter to be deleted.
113	'According to Islamic law non-Muslims will have to choose between death and Islam. Only the Hanafis allow non-Muslims to pay jaziya in exchange for their lives.'	Rewrite this as follows: 'By paying jaziya to Alauddin Khalji, Hindus could lead normal lives.' Moreover, all the subsequent sentences 'Qazi ....', 'Taimur's arrival in India....' to be deleted.
113	'Mahmud was a believer in the rule of Islam whose core was "Either Islam or death".'	Delete

Bharat Itihash by Narmada Publishers

181

'To prevent Hindu women from being seen by Muslims, they were directed to remain indoors.'

Delete

Itihasher Kahini published by B.B. Kumar

132	'According to Todd [the famous chronicler of Rajasthan annals] the purpose behind Alauddin's Chittor expedition was to secure Rana Rattan Singh's beautiful wife, Padmini'	Delete
154	'As dictated by Islam, there were three options for non-Muslims: get yourself converted to Islam, pay jaziya; accept death. In an Islamic State non-Muslims had to accept one of these three options.'	Delete
161	'The early Sultans were eager to expand the sway of Islam by forcibly converting Hindus into Islam.'	Delete

Bharater Itihash, Sreedhar Prakashani

117	'There is an account that Alauddin attacked the capital of Mewar, Chittorgarh, to get Padmini, the beautiful wife of Rana Rattan Singh''	Delete
139	'There was a sense of aristocratic superiority in the purdah system. That is why upper-class Hindus adopted this from upper-class Muslims. Another opinion has it that purdah came into practice to save Hindu women from Muslims. Most probably, purdah came into vogue because of both factors.'	Delete

Swadesh O Shobhyota, Abhinav Prakashan

126	'Some people believe that Alauddin's Mewar expedition was to get hold of Padmini, the wife of Rana Rattan Singh.'	Delete
145	'Apart from this, because Islam used extreme, inhuman means to establish itself in India, this became an obstacle for the coming together of Indian and Islamic cultures.'	Delete

Bharat Katha, Bulbul Prakashan

40	'Muslims used to take recourse to torture and inhuman means to force their religious beliefs and practices on Indians.'	Delete
41	'The liberal, humane elements in Islam held out hope for oppressed Hindus.'	The entire paragraph beginning with 'the caste system among Hindus.... was attacked' is to be deleted. Instead write, 'There was no place for casteism in Islam. Understandably, the influence of Islam created an awakening among Hindus against caste discrimination. Lower caste oppressed Hindus embraces Islam.'
77	'His main task was to oppress non-believers, especially Hindus.	This and preceding sentence to be deleted.

Bharater Itihash, published by Prantik

102	'There is an account of Alauddin attacked Chittor to get the beautiful wife of Rana Rattan Singh, Padmini.'	Delete
164	'It was his commitment to Islam which made him a fundamentalist.'	Delete

Bharat Kahini, published by A.K. Sarkar and Co.

130

'That is why he adopted the policy of converting Hindus to Islam - so as to increase the number of Muslims. Those Hindus who refused to discard the religion were indiscriminately massacred by him or his generals.'

Delete

All the above has been quoted from the book Eminent Historians by Arun Shourie.