Originally posted by: fredoom
I'm engineer student and i dont know lot of world's history, but i know my religion, and i know some basic tips about history so it was normal that some empires made their rules according to that century and their targets, but how i said before, that doesnt mean that they are representing their religion in right way, people are not religon and if you want to know better about some religion dont look what are doing follows but read books and learn!!!
I am honestly sorry for this thread. The problem is actually quite deep. It all started by damning critique of indian culture given by James mill in the 19th century. He wrote something like Hindus are the most uncivilized people on this earth because of the way they treat their woman- sati, female infanticide, child marriage etc. To counter this a reform movement started within Hinduism which claimed that ancient indian culture was quite good but the problem started later. Why specificaly muslims got blamed for is very complicated. muslims and hinduas ahve shared almost 1000 years in the subcontinent and have actually evolved a common culture. In fact hindu muslim distiction is not very clear in medieval india. i have given some examples in one of the post. It was british who once again did the damage by distingusinhing between the two communities and following divide and rule policy.
Newer scholars have far better understanding of this issue, we think this blaming of muslims is purely illogical and unscientific and against the facts. When the tm said muslim invasion, I was sure this from someone who comes has listened to history from British times not new reasonable histories written in the university. its a fact that such histories are still alive today. may be with time they will go.
When somebody said muslim invasions made hindus defensive, i tried to ask how and why. Why would child marriage stop invasions or protect hinduism. And what sort of threat were muslims? There are perceptions of forced conversions, which are not entirely true. Hindus -muslims on the contrary evolved a common culture. Then why do people say I don't see a difference between delhi and Lahore. You should after all Lahore is muslim and Delhi in India Hindu dominated.
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