Saffronisation of Indian History

Q. Why Jizya on Hindus by Muslim kings?

A. Muslims kings used to have two separate definitions for taxes based on religion. A tax charged on a muslim is ZAKAT and a tax charged on a non-muslim is known as JIZYA. The eligibility and percentage of charging tax is same in both the categories. ZAKAT and JIZYA are taxes collected from people living in that area by the king and is used for the development of people mostly Hindus and different projects.

Q. Hindus are worried about their religion because of Muslims in India? Is fighting to save our thousand's year old culture and religion wrong?

A. I would like to ask a basic question which you should be able to answer. Why are Hindus worried about Muslims? Give some rational explanation. Today we are in a Democracy with well framed constitution which safe guards our fundamental rights of religion, freedom etc. You will agree with me that Muslims don't interfere in Hindu religious matters. They don't worship Hindu god's. They don't enter our temples, they dont interfere in anyway . So how Muslims are a threat to Hinduism? Yes, I will agree with you that christian missionaries do attract people towards Christianity by helping them financially. But this is not a force to convert. Hindus have right to accept or deny it. They can go to court if they think that they are forced to change their religion. Missionaries are not  doing this job in India only, but throughout the world especially in African nations. Muslims also throughout the world call people to their religion via dialogue. There is no force and here again Hindus have right to choose or reject. This is called religious freedom and is available to every citizen of this country whether a Hindu or a Muslim. We should not indulge in people's personal matters. If a person without force, which is highest form of violence, is attracted towards Hinduism or Islam or Christianity, we should respect his/her decision. You may have to ask yourself, what makes you feel that all Hindus will be converted to Islam or Christianity?  Hindus have very right to learn, preach and propagate their religion same as Muslims and Christians have and in the same manner people also have right to choose their religion. If a person born in a Hindu family wants to convert to Christianity or Islam or wants to live life being an Agnostic, we have no right to stop him/her for doing that or vice versa. We cant impose our principles and ideas on others. Everyone is accountable to his/her deeds before God and not human beings. We cant attack people just because he/she has a different set of ideas. How will this society remain peaceful if every one of us wants others to live life like our's? This is not possible.

Q. Muslim invaders mostly from Arab's looted our country and converted Hindus to Islam?

A. Yes, you are right about invasion of India from foreign lands. But this is not about religion, this is kingship is all about. First of all the word "country" which we use today to define our piece of land India was not valid at the time of kingship as it is today. If we read History, today's India before a few thousand years was ruled by different kings in south and North and in East and West.  In kingship sovereignty of a area occupied by another king is not respected as in the case of Democratic nations which we see today. Before world was not ruled by democracy, every king wanted to conquer whole mankind. The more area they occupy, the more powerful a king was. Many Hindu kings also dream to conquer the whole world and that was not possible with out bloodshed. Asoka whom we refer as Asoka the Great conquered upto today's Afghanistan as well as South-East Iran. On what basis Asoka attacked the land of Afghanistan or Iran? There was no Hindu god born in Afghanistan or South-East Iran. Every idol worship does not mean Hinduism. Romans and Greeks were also idol worshipers, Arabs were also Idol worshipers and I would say that Idol worshiping was an easiest form of a mad-made religion throughout the world. As Prophet Abrahim came to his people and forbade them for idol worshiping. Prophet Jesus pbuh was also against idol worshiping of Romans god's and followers ofJesus pbuh stopped worshiping idols. Arabs were also idol worshipers and Prophet Muhammed pbuh came to guide them towards truth. Mostly in India continued with the  idol worshippingwith different philosophies.

Asoka is also famous for battle of Kalinga, there was huge bloodshed in this battle and the people who killed each other were Hindus. History is witness how Hindu kings used to fight with each other in order to conquer more lands. There is a basic rule in kingship that the subjects have to follow the religion same as that of the king. No Roman god was worshipped by Indians, such as Zeus, Jupiter etc because the ruling king themselves were not their followers. In the same manner no Roman used to worship Indian god's as the kings themselves were not their followers. Today in a age of democracy, we will find people from different religions in every country. Buddhism prevailed in India at the time of Asoka, but when Asoka was a Hindu, he was against Buddhism. Buddhism which was born in India should have been dominant religion in India rather India's neighboring states. The reason is Buddhists persecution by Hindu kings. As Asoka converted to Buddhism, Buddhism was a dominant religion. When Asoka died, Hindus kings did not even allowed Asoka's Son and Daughter to preach Buddhism in India and they fled to Ceylon, today's Sri lanka. Sashanka of Gowda even cut the "Boo tree" under which Buddha got enlightenment. All Hindus kings were hostile to followers of Buddha and only a handful of Buddhists were able to save themselves. Conversion was always a willful decision especially towards Islam as Quran guides Muslims not to force anyone for religion. The main reason of conversion from Hinduism to other religions was Hindu caste system which is evident even today. 1.5 lac lower caste Hindus converted to Buddhism in a single day by Dr Ambedkar. Hindus not only converted to Islam, but these were Hindus who converted to Buddhism and Jainism. These were Hindus who converted to Christianity. These were same Hindus who converted to Sikhism. It is improper to say that all these non-Hindus of today were forced to leave Hinduism in a dominant Hindu society. 

No Historian will deny that Muslim kings did not cause bloodshed or looted temples. Muslim kings caused bloodshed same as other kings in the battle field in order to gain more power and conquer more lands. A king is said to be brave if he conquers more lands in his rein and no land can be conquered without bloodshed in the battle ground. Muslim kings also attacked temples, not to hurt religious sentiments of Hindus or destroy Hindu god's, but to take the wealth which was rotting their for no good and was again used for the welfare of people who were mostly Hindus. They did not took this wealth to Mecca and built Kaaba their. Hindu kings also attacked Temples for wealth as mentioned in all authentic History books written by Hindu historians. Famous Raja Harshdev who was ruling in kashmir in 11th century, as mentioned in Rajtarangini written by Hindu poet and priest Pandit kalhana, created a new department for the uprooting of idols from all the temples which were made of Gold and Silver and other precious stones.
In the Army which accompanied with Mahmud Ghaznavi to plunder Somnath temple, 35% of the soldiers were Hindus. Out of 12 Army Generals, 5 were Hindus. Thus, it is clear that the plundering of Somnath temple was not an attack on Hindu religion rather it was an attack for the wealth of the temple. Not only temples but also mosques, churches were destroyed in the medieval period in selective basis and their intentions was to loot the depository wealth which was kept in treasury to empower the kingdom.
If we talk about Mughal ruler Babar. It is worth noting that it was Rana Sanga, ruler of Mewar who invited Babar to fight against the ruler of Delhi Sultanate, Ibrahim Lodi. Thus Babar’s first war in India was against a Muslim ruler Ibrahim Lodhiruler, with support of a Hindu king, Ibrahim Lodi.

Mughal's rule India without disturbing the social structure of the country, it is extremists who tries to fabricate the history to project Muslim rulers responsible for destroying the culture of India.
Mughal rulers collected taxes and utilized it for the welfare of Indian people and British rulers collected tax and revenue for the welfare of British. During their regime nation was richest in the world.
Mughal rulers never hurt the religious sentiment and British rulers hurt it by coating the bullet with the fat of pork and beef which caused the revolt of 1857.

 In medieval times, many Hindu kings attacked temples with huge wealth to increase their power and for the benefit of society. Every Muslim king in India was accompanied by many Hindu army generals as well as foot soldiers and there is no record which says that they were treated as rebellions, but were loyal to the king.