The greatest treachery in the recounting of history of India, perhaps in the history of the world, is the fact that most Indians do not know of the horrific abuse that they have been dealing with for the past 1000 years: That they are ignorant about the 100 million or more Hindus who have met their death or destruction at the hands of the Muslim and Christian invaders into India. The unsaid story of the Hindu Holocaust. A holocaust that continues till date and shows no sign of abating. People who forget history are bound to repeat it. It is high time Hindus wake up to this war that they are sleeping through.

We have been told that India has always been made up of small princely states that were constantly at war and that the Muslim and Christian invasions were just an addition to the already present state of division and fighting. Nothing can be further than the truth. Wars in pre-islamic India were fought in open fields far away from the cities to avoid civilian losses. Women and children were never hurt or abused. Nor cattle or human habitation were attacked and no destruction of lands or property happened. This is in stark contrast to the barbaric onslaught that the Islamic invaders brought with them. Their armies burnt villages and ravaged the lands, they plundered all the wealth and killed all they could. They took men and women as prisoners and made them into sex slaves and servants. Their inhuman nature was not something that the Indian civilization was not prepared for. They had, for many millennia, lived in a civilization ruled by Vedic Dharma and the fact that such beasts roamed the earth had been forgotten.

Perhaps the crown jewel of the lies that have been fed to Indians is this theory of the Aryan Invasion. Not willing to accept the truth that India was the home of all of the world’s civilizations and to justify their own bloodthirsty and greedy conquests, the British historians invented an non-existence civilization that existed somewhere around Persia from which they claimed the Aryans came and then invaded India. No proof exists for this ridiculous theory except in the minds of the people who created it. Yet many historians carry this lie because it suits the worldview they want to project. This theory makes people not recognize the Hindu Holocaust as a clear and terrible happening in the history of the world.

Traditionally the story of the Hindu Holocaust begins with the invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni who invaded India during the 11th century in order to spread Islam. But the precursors to that started right from the beginning of Islam. All the countries between Arabia and India had been practicing some form of Hinduism and in the 400 years from when Islam began, all of them had been brutally conquered, ravaged and converted. Their stories are not told, because no civilization remains to remember them.

Mahmud Ghazni’s campaigns across the Gangetic plains are often cited for their iconoclast plundering and destruction of temples. Mahmud’s court historian Al-Utbi viewed Mahmud’s expeditions as a jihad to propagate Islam and extirpate idolatry. Of his campaign on Mathura, it is written:

“Orders were given that all the temples should be burnt with naphthala and fire and leveled with the ground. The city was given up to plunder for twenty days. Among the spoil are said to have been five great idols of pure gold with eyes of rubies and adornments of other precious stones, together with a vast number of smaller silver images, which, when broken up, formed a load for more than a hundred camels. The loot from Mathura is estimated at 3 million rupees and over 5,000 slaves. His son sacked the second Somnath Temple in 1026, looted it, and the famous Shiva lingam of the temple was destroyed.”

Alberuni, a historian who accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni, described the conquests in North Western India by stating that Mahmud impoverished the region and that the civilization of the scattered Hindus declined and retreated from the North West.

Thus, with blood, rape and wanton destruction, began the largest and longest running targeted abuse that any civilization has faced in the history of the world.

Part 2: Mohammed Ghori, Timur and the Sultans of Delhi.