5th Glorious Epoch - Beginning of Muslim Incursion

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter VI

Generally in all history books, writers jump from Hunnish onslaught to the first successful Muslim campaign in Sindh, without writing what happen in between period of more than hundred years or so.

It been projected that Hindus is nothing but a doleful tale of foreign subjugation and national defeats.

Dr. Ambedkar, writes with hatred against Hindus:"The Hindus has been a life of a continuous defeat. It is a mode of survival of whihc every Hindu will feel ashamed".

Since, 550 A.D., many Hindu kings crossed Indus river at various places and conquered area beyond that. E.g: Uttar Kurus, Khotan in Central Asia beyond Kashmir, Gazani ruled by King Sheeladitya.

Beginning of Aweful Muslim War

• Even before Mohd. Bin-Kasim around 50 years, Arabian Muslim had started to pick fight with Brahmins of Sindh. All these attempts were foiled.
• Usman, governor of Oman openly attacked Sindh. King of Sindh, Chacha crushed the Arabs and killed their very commander-in-chief, Abdul Aziz in battle.
• In 711 A.D. Mohd. Bin-Kasim attacks Sindh with 50 Thousadm strong army. King Dahir was ruling Sindh.
• After Hun King Mihirgula who persecuted Buddhist, under Vedic King Buddhist were totally safe. They were free to follow their religion.
• However, when Muslim invasion started they again started to see them to embrace Buddhist cult and avenge Hindus.
• Buddhist greeted Arab Leader when they captured Port Deval from King Dahir and appealed to him : "We have nothing to do with King Dahir and his Vedic Cult. Who ever rules here, we just follow him. We will never help Dahir in any way. So, we pray that the Buddhist should not be subjected to any indignities or troubles at your hand."
• Kasim gave them temporary assurance of safety.
• Muslim writers of Tarikhs testify that Buddhist in Sindh helped Muslim in every possible way, like by showing them difficult passes, providing food stuff and fodder, supplying them secret military intelligence.

King Dahir Dies Fighting

• Main battle happen between Hindus and Muslims in Brahmanabad. Muslims had no canon but new kind of weapon - fire-arms. Hindus find themselves at weaker position.
• Muslim platoons under King Dahir rebelled. They marched on their King Dahir and attacked him.
• King Dahir was keep on fighting on his elephant. At last he was killed and Hindu army was routed. Muslims entered the city in hot pursuit.
• After hearing King Dahir's death, the Queen and hundreds of other Brave Hindu ladies jumped into the fire (Johar). It was the limit of warlike spirit, the Kashatriyadharma.
• Somehow in this Dahir's two daughters named Suryadevi and Pramiladevi fell into the hands of the Muslims. Kasim took them and hundreds of others as courtesans.
• Looting and massacre of the Hindus and large scale arson in the city went on unhindered.
• Not only this but all city or town in Sindh met with same fate when Muslims marched onward.
• Muslims started to behead Buddhists as there was no armed opposition from their side. Vedic people were fighting in groups or individually.

Buddhist High Treason, Ahimsa

• Because of this Buddhist treachery, unpatriotic and anti-national stand they didn't get any support from politically conscious Indian population.
• In 700 A.D. the new Rajput kingdoms which were staunch supporters of the Vedic religion began to prosper but Buddhist started to decline, socially boycotted, weak and invalid everywhere in India.
• In seventh century King Harsha who copied Ashoka Institutes did religious persecution of Vedic people. Anyone who slay any animal or using flesh as food was subjected to capital punishment. (by Vincent Smith)
• Similarly, Kumar Pal, a Jain king of Gujrath imposed savage penalties upon violators of his similar rules. (by Vincent Smith)

Untouchability aggravated by the Buddhists and confrontation with Muslims

• As per Chinese travellers, some communities like Chandals who didn't gave up the violent profession were banished from town as untouchables. They had to form colonies of their own outside the town.
• If at all they had an occasion and were permitted to come to town on some market-day, they need to carry child's rattle or drum and beat it so that people can avoid any possible contact with them.
• So, it was not Peshwas who started it but it was prevalent from the days of Buddhist and Jain regimes. All these should be criticize in same tone.
• Thats why thousands of these people who voluntarily (or helplessly and under pressure) embraced Buddhism, now renounced it and joined Vedic religion again.
• This is also one of the reason Buddhism started to vanish from all over India even from the holy places of it. 

Majority of Muslims in East Bengal Explained

• Muslims massacred Buddhist in en masse as it was easy. Many Buddhist fled to Tibet and China on seeing Bakhtyar Kilijee march on Bihar.
• Those who accepted Muslim religion were spared.
• The whole of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, northern India right upto West Bengal where Muslim Sultan and Emperors ruled for five hundred years, the Vedic Hindus maintained their numerical superiority.
• East Bengal province had numerically more Buddhist who became Muslim without any fight. Thats how East Bengal became Muslim majority province.
• However, just as a stream separated from the river Bhagirathi should flow separately for miles and once again should leap as a tributary into the same Bhagirathi, the buddhist cult born out of the Vedic hinduism merged in the end in the same Hindu religion and Lord Buddha himself was established as the tenth of the Godly Avatars and was Hinduized.

After the fall of Sindh in 711 A.D., Hindu kings most effectivley checked the muslim advance outside Sindh for more or less 300 Years. But this Hindu heroism quite easily escapes the notice.

During Same period Arabs overrun Nations from Baghdad to Mediterranean, along north African coast straight to Gilbrater, whence they subjugated Portugal and Spain and knocked at the gates of southern France.

Bapa Raval from Chittod once attacked Sindh and annexed it to his kingdom. Arabs latter captured it again but ultimately Sumra Rajputs firmly established their rule over Sindh.

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