Temples demolished? Who? Where?

"Who said temples were demolished?", "What are you talking about?" is something a Congressi will ask you. A communist will go as far as to say, "Muslim rulers were like that wonly, what else do you expect from them? Why make a hue and cry about that?" In fact Irfan Habib actually says this. According to him, Indians were at fault in keeping the gold and other valuables in the temples. What the innocent Muslim king will do? He will have no way other than to loot all the valuables, insult the deity, order to build a mosque on that spot.

So any or all of these traits is called "Denial of History" or "Negationism".

Did you know that millions of Hindus were slaughtered in the region of today's Kandahar and Tashkent? Muslim invaders and rulers ordered killing of Hindus as easily as they would order their evening sherbet?

Let me also tell you this. We the Hindus do not have any voice. We are dumb and basically of no good. I will tell you why. I read reports of Archeological Society Of India and the Congress Government saying that Ramayana is not history, it's just a story and that Ram was a fictitious character. They actually declared that Ramayana was a figment of mind. What happened next, out of pity they re-tracted the lines. But what did we do? Virtually nothing!! Isn't that disappointing?

I will not do the reading for you. I will say things here and it will be upon you to verify. You find your own references. I will not do that for you.

Ramayana happened. Right on this land where we live. There was a time when Ram walked on this earth, as did Ravana, Hanuman, Lakshman, Sita, Bharat, Taksh, Guru Vashishth, Vishwamitra and all. It is as true as the day and night.

Once we have clearly enconsed it in our minds, let's see a few other interesting things.

Ram's brother, Bharat married Mandavi, who is Sita's sister. They had 2 sons, Taksha and Pushkala. So, Taksha and Pushkal were cousins of Lava and Kusha. Also, Yuddhajeet was Ram's maternal uncle or Mama as we say.

What I am going to say now in the next few lines can be found in the Uttarkaand of the Valmiki Ramayan.

There were 2 beautiful regions on both sides of the Sindhu river. Yuddhajeet sent Gaargya to meet Ram with a message saying that he wants Ram to conquer that land and merge it with his own.

Ram liked the idea and said that the sons of Bharat, Taksh and Pushkal, along with their father leading them, will conquer the land and establish the twin cities there under the protection of their maternal uncle Yuddhjeet.

This region was near the Kingdom of Kekeya (modern day Pakistan). Yuddhjeet was king of Kekeya. Yuddhjeet was brother of Kaikeyi.

After travelling for around one and half months they reached Kekeya. The region they were set to conquer were ruled by the Gandharvas. In a battle which continued for little over seven days and nights, Bharat and his sons killed all the Gandharvas. Then Bharat founded the two properous cities of Takshshila and Pushkalavati. Takshshila was in Gandharva Desa and Pushkalavati in Gandhara Desa. Gandharva and Gandhara were the two regions on both sides of the river Sindhu. After 5 years of establishing the kingdoms Bharat returned to Ayodhya.

Takshshila is the modern day Taxila. Today Taxila is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pushkalavati is in NWFP of Pakistan. It is now known as Charsadda.

So we, the Hindus, ruled lands far beyond today's political map, encompassing the areas of today's Pakistan and Afghanistan. A question comes to my mind. What were the events that caused these Kingdoms to be replaced by Muslim rule?

Show me a history book which says about these events and aspect of Indian History. I didn't find it anywhere, not at least in the books used in schools. Don't you think the children should know about our past?

I'm sure the invaders either killed or converted the Hindus that they could lay their hands on. Many fled from these region to escape persecution by the Muslim invaders.

This is just one example to show how Muslims have plundered and encroached on our land. Heard about something called PoK? That's another encroachment.

Think of those times when these kingdoms were uprooted and slowly the entire population (of Hindus, mind it) were killed ruthlessly or converted to Islam.

We must know our past. Read and find out.