Which rulers supported hinduism

In recent years, there have been demands from several communities to be recognised as OBCs - in there were violent protests by the Jat community in Haryana and the Patel community led huge protests in Gujarat in demanding access to caste quotas.

Both are prosperous and politically dominant communities, but they support their demand for caste quotas by saying large numbers in their communities are poor and suffering.

Some say the caste system would have disappeared by now if the fires were not regularly fanned by politicians. At elections, many caste groups still vote as a block and are wooed by politicians looking for electoral gains. As a result, what was originally meant to be a temporary affirmative action plan to improve the lot of the unprivileged groups has now become a vote-grabbing exercise for many politicians.

BBC - Religion- Hinduism. How did caste come about? Image source, AFP. How does caste work? India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of social stratification surviving to this day. He continues to be remembered in India to this day. It is featured on the Wikipedia entry on Prithviraj Chauhan and appears on numerous other websites. In this poem composed in medieval Hindi, Prithviraj does not simply sink into obscurity after his defeat as most historians now believe.

Instead, Prithviraj Raso tells us that the king was taken captive and blinded. With this gratifying ending to his life story, the king regains his honor if not his kingdom. The almost two hundred surviving manuscripts of Prithviraj Raso show that it was a favorite of the Rajput warriors of northwestern India. Rajputs were the main group of Hindus who fought on behalf of the mighty Mughal empire, most of whose leading officers were Muslim.

Prithviraj Raso maintained its status as an authoritative source of information on King Prithviraj among Rajputs well into the nineteenth century. After marvelling at the structure, I wandered around the ground and was shocked to see that there were lying some remains of pillars, columns etc and on it, were carved some statues, sculptures.

Upon neat observation, it was clear that it belonged to Jain religion. The guide with me was little bit bit uncomfortable but informed that Kutubminar was built after destroying the beautiful Jain Temple! I think there r hundreds of facts lying in whole India just to prove how the above article is useless.

I can laugh on people who try to hit Ms. Thaper as neither they are anywhere nearby Ms. Thaper so for as her knowledge is concerned nor they know anything about history except which was fed by bjp. Temples were also broken by hindu rulers, hindu rulers were also equally cruel lekin ye schools ke nalayak bachhe jinse inka school me history ka syllabus pooch lo to dum daba ke bhag len, janta ko fake nationalizm sikha rahe hen. U historians have damaged Mother India more than plus invaders, British brutality , also u historians still defend and want repeat of martyrdom of Sikh Gurus to happen now to all Hindus.

Bharat Varsh. For them cast , language differences are the diet to feed on. Inspite of these differences Indians stood firm against the atrocities committed by invading Muslim barbarian s. The Great Persian empire fell flat against invading Muslim and abandoned Zoroastrian religion.

Whereas Indians stood firm and now are growing cultural ly politically, economically. Romila Thapar is sad because the project started by her in JNU is on the path of failure. She is giving undue importance to foreign sources and ignoring latest findings at Rakhi Garhi etc.

I wonder how much proof Romila Thapar provided for her historical fact presentations. This carries no authenticity.

All the leftists, liberals becoming another Bhajapa… losing my faith in journalism and Indian politics. It is seen that The wok of Romila Thapar is being read with personal perception. It is research work. After reading with references , opnion to be formed. It is not to be accompanied with personal feelings. Suresh Dhole Advocate. Respected Madam, please open your eyes and mind how these people manipulate things against Hindus not only in India and outside our country.

I am a victim and lost my job. Please come out of nut shell and let us together build better India mobile. Romila thapar stop being a pseudo hindu even in your name.

For u every problem lies in Sanatan Dharma and the evils like Islam and Christianity are pure. Islam and Christianity are the biggest stains on our country, culture and religion. I fail to understand why the historians opine. I as a reader should interpret history based on facts. Using words like eminent etc is like idolising them.

This phenomenon worked till a mahatma or a pandit was used as a title to brain wash the public. Present generation is either not interested or are generally too ignorant of such phenomenon. Now logic — the need to bell the thought cat if to be given credence is to make believe india is inherently secular and we all together hindu, muslim and Christians have together created it. But the fact.

Muslims suffering anywhere in the world mobilises Muslims to the extent of making other religion followers suffer.

There is no nation first notion there. It is a universal religion which has political ramifications ingrained in its philosophy. They believe in a theocratic nation Muslims should be preferred as they are a majority and in a democracy minority should get preference. Where is the evolution of society. And what to say of conversions by church.

We are all part of history in making. Leave the past, a sense of nationalism irrespective of religion is mandatory for every country, so should be for ours. Kavita Krishnan, Romila Thapar, Kanhaiya Kumar, Mahua Maitra all are puppets of congress and anti national propaganda machines, though Indian know them very well. If anybody search about the relation among the family of Thapar, Congress, anti Indian secularists and literates of pakistani origin.

The vicious pack of wolves always try to present their narratives in different formats, and by these they always try to use divide and rule policy between Hindu, Muslims and others Presently they have started their campaign heavily through digital media like NDTV, Wire etc. Beaware my brothers and sisters of India from these colour changing people and unity of India. How to become famous? Today it is quite easy and it is just my blaming Hindus!

Whatever may be the atrocities of the Invaders, it must be conceded that the caste system in itself , legitimizes or at least perpetuates slavery. That is why none of the blacks have become Pope. Racism exist in Christianity as well. So much so till recently none from other continents was allowed to become Pope. White supremacy continues to be the hallmark of Christianity.

She is not fit to write this when she ignores Dravidian culture and history when discuss about India. She should know that Tamil predates all the languages almost. She should check the facts before committing. Leftists are the new Jaychands of India. And pseudo-historian leftists like Roimil Thapa are the lowliest creatures amongst then. JNU has lost its credibility and one of the main reasons is all the communist bent historians do not hesitate to twist history to support their ideology.

Lady please manage and focus your psychosomatic health, its not a good time for you to do research and conclude, end of days is near be calm and composed for absolute salvation. Thapar has ignited a vital dialogue. Congratulation to her kin. We want more such historians that encourage healthy dialogue. We Indians are so engrossed in just family expansion, be it Hindu, Muslim, Christian or the rest remaining religion that thrives happily even today.

The last one happened in followed by The latter one due to political benefits. In the past at gun or sword point we were converted to Christianity or Muslim. We had a rich culture in the past so be it at present and inspire rest of the world into spiritual ways rather than be barbaric in nature.

The barrier between rich and poor is too great in India. What else you can expect from this lady and Pysudo secularists and more than that The Print is there to publish all their vomiting. Congress has not only spoiled this country and envoursged people who have vacant space in their head. A bare glance at her article, gives the impression that it is bald, generalistic and devoid of any facts and figures, but infact it is a manifestation of her day dreams.

Ms Thapar even a 5 year old can do a better job. Nothing better is expected from Romila. She first needs to accept the fact that Muslims indeed carried out atrocities on Hindus. Aurangzeb, Tipu etc leadtvno stone unturned to convert people to Islam and in doing this carried out a lot of inhuman torture on the Hindus.

Very strange. That she has a certain committed mindset is well known but she should back up her statements with justifiable argument. Why is she stressing on Aryans and ignoring Dravidians for whom Sanskrit words are even now amongst their daily spoken language. Why is she being ignorant of the historical location till down South of massive ancient temples. She should understand that she is talking of civilization and culture, not history. Just by undermining it by being critical to catch limelight which she has over period of time is not going to change facts and history.

Muslims enslaved kafirs and not hindhu as such Accordingly millions of hindhu s have been reduced to the status of slaves Muslims did in india what they did Arabia Islam accepted and encouraged slavery It allows Muslims to sexually enslave kafir women. According Islam even in heaven there are slaves to be owned by muslims There is another group of kafirs called dhimmis protected kafirs who can continue ther religion by paying jiziya and accepting the hegemony of Islam The communist historians are using the case of these dhimmis to show the better treatment of kafirs by muslims.

Most of the times the service and skill of these kafirs were indispensable too. Kafir are non-belivers of Islam and in Allah. They believe in forceful conversions and that is totally wrong and against humanity.

Good for pseudoliberals as they can enjoy reading stories from this fake historian muslim appeasers. Attacking, destroying and converting other person, community and tribe is not justified and wrongful action it lead to hatred, but in circumstances it is necessary to protect, conserve and flourish our identity..

On the name of higher education and hype of pseudo-intellectuallism… These kind of people always claim themselves as the repository of all truths. They always try to molest the modesity of Hinduism philosophy.. For Romila , modern Afghanistan and Pakistan were not India , for Muslim started their raids and conquest in 8th century. Narrow minded darbari historian. She should correct herself wherever she is wrong. Any ways she can say anything she wants to say as she is also having freedom of speach and expression.

God Bless Her. All I see with such issues on the national front and making it headlines it makes our enemies like China and Pakistan to find more ways to find scapegoats in India to succeed over their mission in fighting against our country.

They wanted to divide us but we are already divided. No one has seen the dangers and outcome of any war. I would suggest people need to let go something that should not be a concern today.

Because of our inhuman actions today we may have to suffer next yrs. Think over it. But who says that those who do not believe in Veda is not Hindu.

Budhist are also hindu. So why she is emphasizing so much on vedic Aryans. We all believe i certain Indian cultural norms which differ from abrahamic religion and culture theifore we are hindu. She is emphasizing so much on aryans or veda to disunite hindus and meanwhile encourage muslim umma concept. Those whom claim aryan do not disclaim Indian culture but muslims of India not only discarding Indian culture but they want to become more Arabic or Islamic. Romila did not discuss this attitude of Muslims.

Atleast Romila Thapar should say to muslims that they should use hindu names rather than Arabic names, wear Hindu sari than Arabic Burqua. Will she dare as so called aryan have hindu names. To protect the temple, to protect the idols and culture and Dharma , the then King offered His 16 year old daughter to that Mughal general Pl describe it , what was the episode, slavery or what, pl reply.

It was a custom for Hindus or Sanatanis to keep Sikha or some long hair uncut above the head, Mughal king imposed tax on keeping Sikha, what was that, slavery or good governance???? The entire city including the temple at Srirangam was destroyed, many hundred killed, what was it???? Truth is not one sided. And Truth hunts, devours everything including false narrative too.

Is it history or one sided biased piece of report only??? We were not alive to see what happened yrs ago. That ails Indian intellectuals, not ready for healthy arguments..

Why the book Inquilab has forward by Swara Bhaskar? Have our publishing industry reached such a low level? She should learn science how magnetic poles are shifting from time to time. She is confused and forget the discovery of Dwarka and rise of sea level during last ice age years ago. She does not know anything other than her day dreaming imagination. The problem with india is that such senior age people are still alive and also taken care….

Why are we chasing the phantoms of the past and not gearing up for life on earth after This is of course not to deny that all was hunky dory in the past —-. Romila Thapar has written the account of the Indian society right from sensitive period. Majority of one faith followers always created adversities for minorities.

Intra faith conflict created five effects i. Majority constantly created feelings that their customs and way of life are the best, undrmining cutoms of minorities. It resulted in hatetrade amongst each others. The feelings of insecurity of minorities were encashed by leaders paving way for two nations theory.

Intrafaiths inequalities introduced by wise people to secure their services like slaves and put them out in sharing social status costed the generations to convert in other religions. The Oppressed asked for their deprived rights. The wise people all the time set forth various imaginary theories making to believe common man.

These theories were only to create instability and restlessness in Indian society with motive to get socio-political powers. In short, wise people did whatever was benifical to them but a common man suffered continuously. What Romila Thapar has written, has intrinsic value.

And this continue to till date.. Well then we should say to please read the unbiased literature. Go on read the literature and then come to debate. Additions and omissions are welcome.

And Also it is necessary to know that everything we have learned from history books is just a cheap, disgusting and manupulative version of reality. It was done by britishers and mughal kings for their own sake. Even assuming that he fancied nobility, it is amazing that Akbar let his comtemporaries and Generals, like Peer Mohammad, loot and rape the helpless citizenry that he was ruling!

Babur was a chronic drinker … Humayun made himself stupid with opium … Akbar permitted himself the practices of both vices.. Describing the demoniac pleasure which Babur used to derive by raising towers of heads of people he used to slaughter, Col. Humayun, the son of Babar, was even more degenerate and cruel than his father. After repeated battles, Humayum captured his elder brother Kamran and subjected the latter to brutal torture.

He was pulled out of the tent and a lancet was thrust into his eyes.. Some lemon juice and salt was put into his eyes.. After sometime he was put on horseback. You can imagine the cruelty and torture that Humayun was capable of inflicting on others when he subjected to his own brother to such atrocities. Humayun was also a slave to opium habit and a lecherous degenarate when it came to women. He is also known to have married a 14 year old Hamida Begum by force.

Akbar possessed a inordinate lust for women, just like his ancestors and predecessors. Akbar, throughout his life, allowed himself ample latitude in the matter of wives and mistresses! Whole of India except few parts of rajputana was reduced to a brothel during the Moghal rule and Akbar who is being glorified as one of the patrons of the vast brothel.

By the way do you know that when Akbar visited Deosa to marry Jodha bai, whole villages in the route fled away. Akbar was born a muslim, lived like a muslim and died as a muslim; that too a very fanatic one. Histories have dubbed him as a true believer who accomplished a synthesis of the best principles of all religions.

The infamous Jiziya tax, which is special tax exaction from the Hindus, was never abolished by Akbar. Time and time again different people had approached seeking exemption from Jiziya. Everytime the exemption was ostensibly issued, but never was actually implemented.

The holy Hindu cities of Prayag and Banaras were plundered by Akbar because their residents were rash enough to close their gates! No wonder Prayag of today has no ancient monuments — whatever remain are a rubble! It is rather obvious that Akbar had no respect and reverance for cities considered holy by Hindus, let alone esteem for human life and property.

If at all Akbar was so magnanimous, why then did not the people come forward and greet him? In place of Hindu temples, countless tombs and little shrines of wicked and worthless Musalmans have been erected in which these men are worshipped with vain superstition as though they were saints. Akbar has neither any love or compassion for Hindus as is apparent from the above examples. Akbar was only one of the many links of the despotic and cruel Moghal rule in India, and enforced the tradition of his forefathers with sincerity and equal ruthlessness.

Even Gujrat, one of the richest provinces in India, suffered severly for 6 months in The famine was not caused by drought or the failure of seasonal rains, but was due to the destruction wrought by prolonged wars and rebellions, constant marching and counter-marching of troops, and killing men on a large scale, and the breakdown of admnistrative machinary and the economic system … The mortality rate was so high that on an average cart-loads of dead bodies were taken out for burial in the city of Ahemadabad alone.

It has a massive defensive wall around it, enclosing redstone gateways and a majestic palace complex, explicitly in the Rajput style.

Eighty thousand horses, seven Rajas of the highest rank, nine Raos and cheiftains, bearing the titles of Rawal and Rawut with elephants follwed him into the field against Babur. As many books say that was the year when the original red fort was destroyed. Also, its said that in Adam khan was punished and thrown from second floor of red fort.

Even the foundation might have took 3 years to be built. Then how we get a 2 floor fort considering akbar was comfortable living in an under construction palace :D. He simply comandeered the fort from its original inhabitants, and claimed to have been built by him. He never ordered engineers and architects to build to build magnificent buildings. Akbar has been given unecessary credit of being tolerant, secular and an altruist king.

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