THE BATTERED HINDU: History of India from 712 A.D. to 1947 A.D.
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By the beginning of the eighth century A.D. Mussalmans ventured effective thrusts into Indian Sub-continent. Hindus were ruthlessly converted to Islam and within two centuries Hindu Civilization was wiped out of the entire region of Sindh. The Arabs learned from HINDUS the decimal system of writing numbers, logic, astronomy, architecture, medicine, and fine arts.
Arabs made incursions into India for plundering and destroying places of worship of kafirs and collecting lawful war booty consisting of unimaginable wealth, prized women, and slaves. The events are presented without any emotional muck or pre-conceived notions.
Muslim rule was characterized by compulsions, carnages, vandalism, and cataclysmic upheavals for the subject race, not for days or months, or years but from century to century. Muslim conquerors dashed from one corner to the other of the sub-continent. The natives dispossessed of nationality were under constant persecution scourged by calamities, epidemics, famines, and large-scale slaughters.
As the attrition between Shia principalities of the south and Delhi Sultanates was taking different aspects Europeans came prowling through various sides for trade and foothold and Christian proselytism.
Mughal emperors, Farruk Siyar and Shah Alam II transferred de jure sovereignty of India to the English. How Indian slaves were treated as “Jungli” wretches by the British is a tantalizing story. An English civil servant A.O.Humes laid the foundation of the Indian National Congress with the blessings of Lord Dufferin. Varied and mosaic political activities of the party accentuated communal fault lines which pulled apart appreciable chunks of land in the East and West as a separate homeland for Muslims. There are separate chapters on Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose.
I desired to write a book for Hindus. Though I wrote some books and poetry but could not find time to write this book. In 2002 I suffered a serious accident and had to be hospitalized for a head injury and later for prostrate resection. It took a long time to recover. I am really indebted to my wife who made it possible for me to write this book and complete it. I am thankful to my daughter Dr. Raj Shree Dhar, Professor of Mathematics, for her creative suggestions in publishing the manuscript.
T.N. Dhar
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Triloki Nath Dhar (1930-2022) was born in Kashmir, J & K, India. He graduated in science from Punjab in 1948 and received a degree in Indology from Sharda Peeth Research Centre, Srinagar, as approved by Dr Tuci of Rome. In the past, he was a journalist and a theological preacher through religious organizations. For one, he gave lectures on the Bhagwat Geeta (BhagavadGita) through the auspices of the Vedic Bhavan during 1972 to 1974. Mr Dhar is an author of short romances, tales, and collections of essays, as well, a theory of Cosmological Physics which he had included in a ‘romantic fiction’ novel which was apparently confirmed fourteen years later by a US space satellite’s discovery of a particularly massive cloud of gas and dust. It was a possible indication that the expanding universe might eventually reverse toward collapse. He was formerly a member of several author’s organizations. Mr Dhar’s various public service efforts have included service from 1946 to 1948 as secretary of the Students’ Federation and in the Volunteer Corps; he was general secretary of the Bhokhatkeshwar Bhairov Nath Trust in Srinagar from 1972 through 1976, and general secretary of the All-India Saraswat Cultural Organisation from 1972 through 1981. He had declined some awards offered, for personal reasons. His published works include Theory of Creativity (1961), Tale of a Soviet Biologist (1961), A Bunch of Short Romances (l963), Origin of Saraswat Aryans (1976), Rupa Bhawani (Life, Teachings and Philosophy) (1977), Concept of I(1982), The Cascades (1983), a collection of poems, The Holy Virgin (an epic fragment), Inspiration in the North- East (2001), The story of Kashmir Affairs and the sundry topics(2013)
