TheRealHistoryOfSouthAsia
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Can we get some really pernicious myths out of the way first?
Hindu right-wingers are propagating the misconception that Islam arrived in the Indian subcontinent by conquest, and that a large number of Muslims in South Asia were converted by force. Most of the above propaganda references accounts supposedly attributed to the invaders that were written by scribes, mostly from the Brahmin community. While it is well-known that the aforementioned writings are mostly fabrications, the actual truth of the matter needs to be revealed.
Can someone please explain why, if the historical Islamic caliphates were so anti-Hindu, were there Indian scholars working in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad? If the Hindu right is to be believed, then scholars like Manka al-Hindi would have been decapitated and his writings burned.
Can we get some really pernicious myths out of the way first?
Hindu right-wingers are propagating the misconception that Islam arrived in the Indian subcontinent by conquest, and that a large number of Muslims in South Asia were converted by force. Most of the above propaganda references accounts supposedly attributed to the invaders that were written by scribes, mostly from the Brahmin community. While it is well-known that the aforementioned writings are mostly fabrications, the actual truth of the matter needs to be revealed.
Can someone please explain why, if the historical Islamic caliphates were so anti-Hindu, were there Indian scholars working in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad? If the Hindu right is to be believed, then scholars like Manka al-Hindi would have been decapitated and his writings burned.
