Your comment on the nature of muslim-hindu confrontation during the 11th and 12th centuries?
shahab a asked:
Your comment on the nature and extent of muslim-hindu confrontation during the 11th and 12th centuries?
And why was it important to the history of India.
Or any source where I can found more info on that?
January 21st, 2008 at 12:57 am
The two cultures don’t coexist well together and haven’t for a long time (just look at the way India and Pakistan act to each other).
The confrontations back then have contributed to the strain that is still felt today.
Its impact on India was that it helped lead to the split off of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
January 21st, 2008 at 6:32 am
when islam was brought to indian shores by arab traders it was welcomed by learned upper caste hindus. they even married their girls to arabs seeing the beauty of islam and its ideology. islam was equally attractive for downtrodden classes among hindus as it preached equality. in later stages muslim inavaders alleged to have committed things that hindoos dint like, like desecrating their temples, ridiculing the worship of elephants, monkeys, snakes, cows, trees and rocks. but for indian independence hindus and muslims fought shoulder to shoulder and ejected british from the indian soil. hindu belligerent and intolerant attitude from the leaders like sardar vallabh patel and nehru drove muslims like jinnah to go for a separate home land.
RSS whcih was founded in 1925 made the reconciliation between hindus and muslims harder. it founding leaders were die hard hindu fanatics and traitors who dint want peace between hindus and muslims. they want to avenge the wrong doings of muslim invading armies under ghazni and ghori mahmud. Now RSS and its dozen plus affiliate outfits are very active in india and USA.