STALINIST “HISTORIANS”

SPREAD THE BIG LIE

Presentation based on a book by

Sita Ram Goel

The Babri Masjid

The Babri masjid built on the site of Rama Janmabhumi at Ayodhya is just the tip of iceberg which remains submerged in hundreds of histories written by Muslim historians

BABRI MASJID

THE MARXIST HISTORIANS

Only few historians have related the vandalism to the theology of Islam based on Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet.

On the contrary, the subject has been politicized by the votaries of Secularism.

Some politicians are masquerading as academicians and selling far-fetched apologies for the havoc caused by Islamic Iconoclasm.

MARXIST HISTORIANS, IN THEIR EFFORT TO

WHITEWASH ISLAM, HAVE ENDED BY BLACKENING

HINDUISM

ILL-INFORMED COMMENTS OF TIMES OF INDIA

QUTUB MINAR In August 1986, the Times of India printed

on its front page the photos of two stone carrying defaced carvings of some Hindu deities.

There was a short statement beneath the photos that two stones had been found by the Archeological Survey of India in course of repairs to the Qutub Minar at Delhi.

According to ASI, the stones had been built into a wall with the carved faces turned inwards.

But the Daily had dropped this part of the news.

The Quwwat al-Islam Masjid

Nobody drew any conclusion from the fact that the Qutub Minar stands near the Quwwat al-Islam Masjid which, according to an inscription on its eastern gate, was built from the materials of 27 Hindu temples.

KESAVADEVA TEMPLE On September 15, 1986, Times of India

printed a photo of Idgah built by Aurangzeb on the site of the Kesavadeva temple at Mathura.

It gave the news that a committee had been formed by some leading citizens for the liberation of what is known to be Sri Krishna’s birth place.

None of the news-items threw any light on what was the Kesavadeva temple & why and when Aurangzeb converted it into mosque.

TRUTH ABOUT KESAVADEVA

TEMPLEKesavadeva temple which was destroyed & replaced with an

Idgah by Aurangzeb, was built by Bir Singh Deva Bundela in the

reign of Jahangir.

But he did not built it on the same spot where an earlier Kesavadeva temple stood and which had been

destroyed by Islamic iconoclast.

There were many letters from Marxist historians who wrote that this report by TOI is a debasement of history to distort these events for present day communal propaganda.

Quite a few readers of TOI wrote letters challenging the facts as well as the logic of the Marxist professors. But they were never published.

The controversy had only started and TOI announced that the “controversy has been closed”

WHY AURANGZEB DESTROYED THE TEMPLE?

In 1665, Aurangzeb imposed a pilgrim tax on all Hindus.

In 1668, he prohibited celebration of all Hindu festivals.

Aurangzeb

STATEMENT OF MARXIST HISTORIANS

Marxist historians say that the temple was destroyed because it had “acquired considerable wealth” which attracted Aurangzeb.

OR That the destruction was “politically

motivated as well, for at the time when the temple was destroyed he faced problems with the Bundela & Jat rebellions in the Mathura region.”

“THE EMPEROR ORDERED THE

GOVERNORS OF ALL PROVINCES TO

DEMOLISH THE SCHOOLS & TEMPLES OF THE

INFIDELS AND STRONGLY PUT DOWN THEIR

TEACHING & RELIGIOUS PRACTICES.”

According to Ma’sir-i-Alamgiri,

April 9, 1669

THE TRUTH

There was no Bundela uprising in 1670 when the Kesavadeva temple was destroyed.

The Jats had risen in revolt after and not before Aurangzeb issued his firman of April, 1969 ordering destruction of Hindu temples everywhere.

The Kesavadeva temple was not the only place of worship which was wealthy. Many mosques were bursting with riches in his time.

Theology of Islam lays down loud and clear that it is a pious act for a Muslim to destroy the temples of the infidels and smash their idols.

The political and economic motives, invented by Marxists, are not only far-fetched but also do not explain the destruction and conversion of temples.

QURAN, 9:123

"O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers near you and let them see

how harsh you can be...”

QURAN 2:191

"... kill the disbelievers wherever we find them …"

QURAN 8:12

"Instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers;"

QURAN 8:59

"The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against

them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may

terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah's enemy."

THE ISSUE OVER THE BIRTH PLACE OF SHRI RAMA

“A PERSIAN TEXT OF MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

STATES THAT THE BABRI MOSQUE WAS ADJACENT TO THE SITA-KI-RASOI-GHAR & WAS KNOWN A RASOI-SITA MOSQUE & ADJOINED THE

AREA ASSOCIATED WITH THE BIRTHPLACE OF RAMA.”

The professors have not named the Persian texts to which they are referring.

The Persian text creates complication rather than clear the confusion, which according to historians .

They found it difficult to hide the atrocities committed by Islam in India, they have invented stories of Buddhist, Jain and Animist temples destroyed by the Hindus.

HINDUS HAVE RECEIVED UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM FOR

PROVIDING REFUGE & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TO THE JEWS, THE

CHRISTIANS, AND THE PARSIS WHO HAD RUN AWAY FROM

PERSECUTIONS AT THE HANDS OF CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC

RULERS IN WEST ASIA & IRAN.

THE BIG LIE Marxist historians spread the big lie that

the Hindus destroyed many Buddhists and Jain temples.

But they never produced any evidence in support of their statement.

It is unfortunate that some Buddhist and Jain scholars have swallowed this Big Lie without any evidence.

Professors are prepared for an investigation for finding whether the Katra mound hides the remains of a Buddhist monastery under the remains of the Kesavadeva temple.

The Buddha, Kushana period, 2nd century A.D., Katra mound,

Mathura region

But they should be prepared for the

possibility that the Buddhist monastery

itself was built on the ruins of the earlier

Hindu temple because the most ancient literature

associates Mathura with the birth &

youth of Shri Krishna, while Buddhist

associations with Mathura do not go beyond Greek and

Kushan.

Krishna Temple, Mathura, Uttar

Pradesh

A dialogue which took place between Harsh Narain & Hukam Dev Narain Singh Yadav, MP of the Janta Dal (Mandal Commission Report, October, 1990)

Hukum Singh Yadav: “Brahminical tyranny, when rivers of the blood of Buddhist monks were made to flow in the Buddhist monasteries.”

Harsh Narain: “Could you kindly name the Buddhist monasteries where it happened, & also the time when it happened?”

Hukum Singh Yadav: “I will not pretend that I know. I must have heard it from someone, or read it somewhere.”

Harsh Narain: “I give you six months for finding a single instance of Hindus murdering Buddhist monks. I am demanding only one instance, not two.”

Hukum Singh Yadav: “I will try”

Now many years have passed and there is no

word from the “eminent” politician, because such evidence does not exist.

It is Big Lie spread by Hindu-baiters.

“SUPPRESSIO VERI SUGGESTIO

FALSI”

ROMILA THAPAR CLAIMS:

Hsuan Tsang refers to the atrocities of Saiva devotee, Mihirakula, against the Buddhists both in Punjab and Kashmir in the 6th century A.D.

Kalhana gives an account of the king killing innocent people by the hundreds.

ROMILA THAPAR

Thapar has suppressed the fact stated by Huen Tsang

Mihirakula had requested the Buddhist Sangha to teach him the tents of Buddhism.

The Sangha did not assign the task to a qualified teacher but sent a monk who had the rank of a servant.

Mihirakula felt outraged at this insult & persecuted Buddhists.

Kashmir had known many Saiva kings before Mihirakula as well as after him. None of them persecuted Buddhism.

His fury had nothing to do with Saivism, it was fury of a tyrant whose ego had been hurt.

ROMILA THAPAR CLAIMS: The recently discovered stupa at Shangol in

Punjab, where sculpted railings were found in the vicinity of a stupa dismantled & packed away, indicates the persecution of Buddhists in Kashmir & willful destruction of a vihara, by a Saivite king.

No archeologist ever said that stupa was “dismantled or packed away” or Mihirakula was leading an invasion.

All that is known is that many stones had een finished, & were meant to be parts of a stupa. But no one knows why they were left in pits & trenches.

ROMILA THAPAR CLAIMS: The prabodha-candrodaya of Krsna Misra, a

drama of the 11th century, dwells on the theme of a Kapalika converting a Jaina & a Buddhist monk to Saivism by offering them wine & women.

Professor Thapar is incensed that a Jain and a Buddhist monks have been shown in a Sanskrit drama as hankering wine & women.

But she herself admits that “the Tantric version of these system [Buddhism and Jainism] conceded to practices which were opposed to pluralism.”

She is aware that Tantricism was not confined to Shaivsm, & was shared by both Buddhism & Jainism.

Yet she uses the Tantric portrayal of Buddhist & Jain monks just to support her story of Saivas persecuting the Buddhists & Jains.

THERE WERE SOME INSTANCES OF CONFLICT AMONG THE SECTS AND SUB-SECTS OF SANATANA DHARMA BUT THESE INSTANCES WERE NOT INSPIRED BY ANY THEOLOGY AS IN THE CASE OF ISLAM.