EXCELLENT ARTICLE - BREAKING INDIA FORCES Manufacturing History Collusively - By Dr. Rahul Shastri Manufacturing Mahmud Ghazny Indian oral tradition recalls the raids of Mahmud Ghazny, his large scale destruction of temples, especially the destruction of Somnath. This tradition does not suit a certain ideology, which may be called “pseudo-secularism” for convenience. As a result, Nehru made the first attempt at manufacturing the history of Mahmud Ghazny. In his Discovery of India, He said: “Mahmud was far more a warrior than a man of faith and like many other conquerors he used and exploited the name of religion for his conquests. India was to him just a place from which he could carry off treasure and material to his homeland.” This interpretation ran up against medieval Muslim accounts of Mahmud. If treasure was his sole object, why would he refuse annual tribute, fifty elephants and jewels in order to spare the idol of Thaneshwar? Also, it is reported that while rejecting the offer, Mahmud said “in proportion as the tenets of the Prophet are diffused, and his followers exert themselves in the subversion of idolatry, so shall be their reward in heaven;’ that therefore, it behoved him, with the assistance of God, to root out the worship of idols from the face of India. How, then, should he spare Thanesar?” He is said to have repeated similar sentiments in Somnath, proclaiming: “… I desire that on the day of resurrection I should be summoned with the words ‘Where is that Mahmud who broke the greatest of heathen idols?’ rather than by these: ‘Where is that Mahmud who sold the greatest of the idols to the infidels for gold?’” Evidently, Mahmud was not interested in booty alone. He razed the temple to the ground and broke the idol into four pieces. Firishta writes “two pieces of the idol were to be broken off and sent to Ghazni so that one might be thrown at the threshold of the public mosque and the other at the court door of his own palace. …. Two more fragments were reserved to be sent to Mecca and Medina.” So what is historical fact here? George Orwell said that he, who controls the present, controls the past. “Pseudo-secularism” ensures that a majority of scholars will side with Nehru. FOR MORE centreright.in/2014/02/manufacturing-history-collusively/#.UvTZ_fldW1U
Posted on: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:24:02 +0000
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