5th Glorious Epoch: Intermittent Hindu Retaliation Against Muslim Religious Aggression

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter X

Far beyond the frontiers of India, wherever Muslim aggression took place, natives there totally deprived of their religion. But in India alone their attempts were not completely successful.The muslim invaders from Kasim in 8th Century, Ghazni in 11th till 18th when Peshwas in 18th century overthrow the Moghul empire. Why then did the muslims fail to destroy the hindu society completely?

• First reason, the political defeat which the Hindus inflicted on these muslims.Initial stage, Bhim and Rana Pratap and other Rajput princess, next Hindu kings of Vijyanagar and Lastly Marathas dealt it deadly blows under Peshwas.
• Other reason, The warriors Men and Women who opposed religious aggression of muslim with counter-aggression following the precepts the Maharshi Deval and Medhatithi.
• Bappa Raval of Mevad attacked Sindh and muslim strongholds beyond it, annexed them into his territory. He married a muslim princess who was captured in his final muslim rout and kept her in his harem. Offspring from this muslim convert queen were respected as born in the family of Sun god.
• Raval Chechak of Jaisalmir married the daughter of Sultan Haibatkhan named Somaldevi and established her in his Yadav race.
• Kanwar Jagmal married daughter of Sultan of Gujrath after crushing him in battle, called Gindoli.
• Raimal the King of Marwad captured 600 Muslim women and reconverted them to Hinduism married them publicly to several noblemen of his court.
• Kumbharana of Mevad took all the captured muslim women to his kingdom after defeating muslims.
• Historian of Rajasthan, Major Tod and political history, called Rassos of the Rajput also mentions many such instances of conversion of muslim women.
• Raja Jayasthiti of Nepal avenged muslim aggression in same manner after defeating Shamsuddin the Nawab of Bengal.
• Muslim historical records mentioned that Hindu kafirs converted even Muslim women to Hinduism which is not found even in our Hindu historical books.E.g: Tarikh-i-Sorath mentions how King of Anhilwad at the time Ghazni carried away several of Turkish, Moghul and Afghan women.
• Arundevrai of Ajmer built Lake Anasagar. Whichever muslim convert take bath in this lake was considered purified and could enter Hinduism.
• Similar lake Lake Amarsagar built by Amarsingh Maharaj of Jaisalmir.
• Shree Vidyaranyaswami like Maharshi Deval and Medatithi converted brothers Harihar and Bukka and established in 1336 A.D., the Hindu state of Vijayanagar. He built Madhavteerth in Gomantak and performed mass reconversion.
• Shree Ramanujacharya disciples Ramanand and Chaitanya Prabhu of Bengal, Shree Shivachhatrapati performed mass reconversion.

A Counter-Aggression?

Under leadership of powerful Maharana Jaswantsingh and the brave Durgadas Rathod, Masjids were razed to the ground and Hindu temples were built. The Rathod armies cast pork in Masjid after Masjid. Hundreds of muslim women kept as concubines. The whole muslim society in Rajputana was horror stricken.

Smritis and the Ban on sea Voyages
After Mohammed Ghori's invasion, there was ban on Sea Voyage (crossing Attock) solely to save Hinduism as there was no armed support for Hindus. The great king Maharaja Bhoj of Dhara (999 A.C. - 1054 A.C.) at this time fixed the boundaries. It is foolish to think of any order by the Smritis which claimed to follow the Vedic Cult. Emperor Rajendra Chola a trict follower of Vedic Cult was called "Trisamudreshwar" - ruler of the three seas - as that if "Samrat" in the north.
The only mistake happened that the writers of these Smritis stamped them with old authoritative seal of "This is the old tradition" instead they should have mentioned as currently we don't have arm support to protect our ships so ban will be there till we get stronger to protect our interest.

On the other side in South brutal conversion by Portuguese missionaries was going on under threat of arms.

So, many kings and saints followed counter aggression on religious front. However, when a particular hero dies, his followers give up these aggression. The Hindu society in general felt no urgency of handing down to the later generations the anecdotes and legends of these heroic deeds. The muslim enemy always feared that even the Hindus also could avenge religious persecution on occasions. But still many Hindus didn't followed the aggression on religious front. Justification by Hindus of those times was that Muslim might have been more enraged and their attacks might have been more brutal.

Will see how these justification were totally illogical. It was only lack of will in Hindus which prevented this.

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