"Excerpt: In 1360 AD., Firoz Shah Tughlaq invaded Orissa and desecrated the temple of Lord Jagannath at Puri and threw the idol in the Bay of Bengal. On his return journey, when he was passing through Jajnagar, the then capital of Orissa, it was brought to his knowledge that nearly 120,000 Hindus had taken shelter at an offshore island. Firoz Shah then went to that island with his men and butchered those 120,000 Hindus on a single day. Ulugh Khan (later on became Sultan Ghiasuddin Balban), when he was serving sultan Nassiruddin (brother of Sultana Rizia) as a commander, went to the Gahrwal region and promised his men that he would reward them with one rupee for bringing the head of a slain Hindu and two rupees for bringing a Hindu alive. Like hungry dogs his army set out for the hunt of kafir Hindus. The massacre went on for three long weeks and several hundreds of thousands of Hindus were slain. Ulugh Khan then built three high-rise bastions with the heads of the slain Hindus."
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:13:15 +0000
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