With the invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni about 1000 A.D., began the Muslim invasions into the Indian subcontinent and they lasted for several centuries. Nadir Shah made a mountain of the skulls of the Hindus he killed in Delhi alone. Babur raised towers of Hindu skulls at Khanua when he defeated Rana Sanga in 1527 and later he repeated the same horrors after capturing the fort of Chanderi. Akbar ordered a general massacre of 30000 Rajputs after he captured Chithorgarh in 1568. The Bahamani Sultans had an annual agenda of killing a minimum of 100000 Hindus every year.
The history of medieval India is full of such instances. The holocaust of the Hindus in India continued for 800 years, till the brutal regimes were effectively overpowered in a life and death struggle by the Sikhs in the Panjab and the Hindu Maratha armies in other parts of India in the late 1700’s.
We have elaborate literary evidence of the World’s biggest holocaust from existing historical contemporary eyewitness accounts. The historians and biographers of the invading armies and subsequent rulers of India have left quite detailed records of the atrocities they committed in their day-to-day encounters with India’s Hindus.
These contemporary records boasted about and glorified the crimes that were committed – and the genocide of tens of millions of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhist and Jainist, mass rapes of women and the destruction of thousands of ancient Hindu / Buddhist temples and libraries have been well documented and provide solid proof of the World’s biggest holocaust.
Quotes from modern historians
Dr. Koenraad Elst in his article “Was There an Islamic Genocide of Hindus?” states:
“There is no official estimate of the total death toll of Hindus at the hands of Islam. A first glance at important testimonies by Muslim chroniclers suggests that, over 13 centuries and a territory as vast as the Subcontinent, Muslim Holy Warriors easily killed more Hindus than the 6 million of the Holocaust. Ferishtha lists several occasions when the Bahmani sultans in central India (1347-1528) killed a hundred thousand Hindus, which they set as a minimum goal whenever they felt like punishing the Hindus; and they were only a third-rank provincial dynasty.
The biggest slaughters took place during the raids of Mahmud Ghaznavi (ca. 1000 CE); during the actual conquest of North India by Mohammed Ghori and his lieutenants (1192 ff.); and under the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526).“
He also writes in his book “Negation in India”:
“The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus skulls. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter.” 
Will Durant argued in his 1935 book “The Story of Civilisation: Our Oriental Heritage” (page 459):
“The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period.”
Francois Gautier in his book ‘Rewriting Indian History’ (1996) wrote:
“The massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese.”
Alain Danielou in his book, Histoire de l’ Inde writes:
“From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of ‘a holy war’ of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races.”
Irfan Husain in his article “Demons from the Past” observes:
“While historical events should be judged in the context of their times, it cannot be denied that even in that bloody period of history, no mercy was shown to the Hindus unfortunate enough to be in the path of either the Arab conquerors of Sindh and south Punjab, or the Central Asians who swept in from Afghanistan…The Muslim heroes who figure larger than life in our history books committed some dreadful crimes. Mahmud of Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Balban, Mohammed bin Qasim, and Sultan Mohammad Tughlak, all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not cleansed..Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their homeland was an unmitigated disaster.
“Their temples were razed, their idols smashed, their women raped, their men killed or taken slaves. When Mahmud of Ghazni entered Somnath on one of his annual raids, he slaughtered all 50,000 inhabitants. Aibak killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands. The list of horrors is long and painful. These conquerors justified their deeds by claiming it was their religious duty to smite non-believers. Cloaking themselves in the banner of Islam, they claimed they were fighting for their faith when, in reality, they were indulging in straightforward slaughter and pillage…”
A sample of contemporary eyewitness accounts of the invaders and rulers, during the Indian conquests
The Afghan ruler Mahmud al-Ghazni invaded India no less than seventeen times between 1001 – 1026 AD. The book ‘Tarikh-i-Yamini’ – written by his secretary documents several episodes of his bloody military campaigns : “The blood of the infidels flowed so copiously [at the Indian city of Thanesar] that the stream was discoloured, notwithstanding its purity, and people were unable to drink it…the infidels deserted the fort and tried to cross the foaming river…but many of them were slain, taken or drowned… Nearly fifty thousand men were killed.”
In the contemporary record – ‘ Taj-ul-Ma’asir’ by Hassn Nizam-i-Naishapuri, it is stated that when Qutb-ul- Din Aibak (of Turko – Afghan origin and the First Sultan of Delhi 1194-1210 AD) conquered Meerat, he demolished all the Hindu temples of the city and erected mosques on their sites. In the city of Aligarh, he converted Hindu inhabitants to Islam by the sword and beheaded all those who adhered to their own religion.
18th century Sikh scholar Bhai Mani Singh being executed by dismemberment
The Persian historian Wassaf writes in his book ‘Tazjiyat-ul-Amsar wa Tajriyat ul Asar’ that when the Alaul-Din Khilji (An Afghan of Turkish origin and second ruler of the Khilji Dynasty in India 1295-1316 AD) captured the city of Kambayat at the head of the gulf of Cambay, he killed the adult male Hindu inhabitants for the glory of Islam, set flowing rivers of blood, sent the women of the country with all their gold, silver, and jewels, to his own home, and made about twentv thousand Hindu maidens his private slaves.
This ruler once asked his spiritual advisor (or ‘Qazi’) as to what was the Islamic law prescribed for the Hindus. The Qazi replied:
“Hindus are like the mud; if silver is demanded from them, they must with the greatest humility offer gold. If a Mohammadan desires to spit into a Hindu’s mouth, the Hindu should open it wide for the purpose. God created the Hindus to be slaves of the Mohammadans. The Prophet hath ordained that, if the Hindus do not accept Islam, they should be imprisoned, tortured, finally put to death, and their property confiscated.”
Sacrifice of Bhai Mati Das for the Sikh faith, being brutually killed by the Mughals, this image is from a Sikh History museum
Timur was a Turkic conqueror and founder of the Timurid Dynasty. Timur’s Indian campaign (1398 – 1399 AD) was recorded in his memoirs, collectively known as ‘Tuzk-i-Timuri.’ In them, he vividly described probably the greatest gruesome act in the entire history of the world – where 100,000 Hindu prisoners of war in his camp were executed in a very short space of time. Timur after taking advice from his entourage says in his memoirs :
“they said that on the great day of battle these 100,000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolaters and foes of Islam at liberty.
“In fact, no other course remained but that of making them all food for the sword’
Timur thereupon resolved to put them to death. He proclaimed :
“throughout the camp that every man who has infidel prisoners was to put them to death, and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. 100,000 infidels, impious idolaters, were on that day slain. Maulana Nasir-ud-din Umar, a counselor and a man of learning, who, in all his life had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives“.
During his campaign in India – Timur describes the scene when his army conquered the Indian city of Delhi :
“In a short space of time all the people in the [Delhi] fort were put to the sword, and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all the goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year had been stored in the fort became the spoil of my soldiers.
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“They set fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the buildings and the fort to the ground….All these infidel Hindus were slain, their women and children, and their property and goods became the spoil of the victors. I proclaimed throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death.”
The Mughal emperor Babur (who ruled India from 1526 -1530 AD) writing in his memoirs called the ‘Baburnama’ – wrote : ” In AH 934 (2538 C.E.) I attacked Chanderi and by the grace of Allah captured it in a few hours. We got the infidels slaughtered and the place which had been Daru’l-Harb (nation of non-muslims) for years was made into a Daru’l-Islam (a muslim nation).”
In Babur’s own words in a poem about killing Hindus (From the ‘Baburnama’ ) he wrote :
“For the sake of Islam I became a wanderer,
I battled infidels and Hindus,
I determined to become a martyr
Thank God I became a Killer of Non-Muslims!”
The atrocities of the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan (who ruled India between 1628 – 1658 AD) are mentioned in the contemporary record called : ‘Badshah Nama, Qazinivi & Badshah Nama , Lahori’ and goes on to state : “When Shuja was appointed as governor of Kabul he carried on a ruthless war in the Hindu territory beyond Indus…The sword of Islam yielded a rich crop of converts….Most of the women (to save their honour) burnt themselves to death. Those captured were distributed among Muslim Mansabdars (Noblemen)”
The Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali attacked India in 1757 AD and made his way to the holy Hindu city of Mathura, the Bethlehem of the Hindus and birthplace of Krishna.
The atrocities that followed are recorded in the contemporary chronicle called : ‘Tarikh-I-Alamgiri’ :
“Abdali’s soldiers would be paid 5 Rupees (a sizeable amount at the time) for every enemy head brought in. Every horseman had loaded up all his horses with the plundered property, and atop of it rode the girl-captives and the slaves. The severed heads were tied up in rugs like bundles of grain and placed on the heads of the captives…Then the heads were stuck upon lances and taken to the gate of the chief minister for payment.
“It was an extraordinary display! Daily did this manner of slaughter and plundering proceed. And at night the shrieks of the women captives who were being raped, deafened the ears of the people…All those heads that had been cut off were built into pillars, and the captive men upon whose heads those bloody bundles had been brought in, were made to grind corn, and then their heads too were cut off. These things went on all the way to the city of Agra, nor was any part of the country spared.”
Banda Singh Bahadur was tortured to death after being imprisoned for 3 months. The heart of Banda Singh’s son was put in his mouth in an attempt to humiliate him
Why we should remember
The biggest holocaust in World History has been whitewashed from history.
When we hear the word HOLOCAUST most of us think immediately of the Jewish holocaust. Today, with increased awareness and countless cinema films and television documentaries – many of us are also aware of the Holocaust of the Native American peoples, the genocide of the Armenian peoples in the Ottoman Empire, and the millions of African lives lost during the Atlantic slave trade.
Europe and America produced at least a few thousand films highlighting the human misery caused by Hitler and his army. The films expose the horrors of Nazi regime and reinforce the beliefs and attitude of the present day generation towards the evils of the Nazi dictatorship.
In contrast look at India. There is hardly any awareness among the Indians of today of what happened to their ancestors in the past, because a great majority of historians are reluctant to touch this sensitive subject.
The World seems to either ignore or just does not seem to care about the many millions of lives lost during the 800 – year long holocaust of Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhist in India.
The Indian historian Professor K.S. Lal estimates that the Hindu population in India decreased by 80 million between 1000 AD and 1525 AD, an extermination unparalleled in World history. This slaughter of millions of people occurred over regular periods during many centuries of Arab, Afghan, Turkish and Mughal rule in India.
Many Indian heroes emerged during these dark times – including the 10th Sikh Guru – Guru Gobind Singh and also the Hindu Maratha king – Shivaji Maratha – who led the resistance against this tyranny and eventually led to its defeat by the late 1700s – after centuries of death and destruction.
The modern World today is facing a global threat from organizations and groups of terrorists such as the ISIS, Taliban and Al-Qaeeda – whose ideology is chillingly similar to that of the perpetrators of the World’s biggest holocaust in India.
Let us hope that the bloody lessons of the past are learnt so that history does not even have the remotest chance of repeating itself.
Sad to know the gory history, to know the ordeals of our forefathers! This is the worst genocide of the history of mankind. Mankind has not fallen from folly, of such dastardly attacks, but had risen time and again with the indomitable spirit of human spirit achievements. Now the entire world, including fundamentalists, is reaping the benefits of technology and comforts. So is the case of Hindu philosophy, which has the following of most people who believe in 'Live & Let live' while achieving higher goals of human spirit…slowly & steadily, are tormenting the fundamentalists (satan). No fear, for me, whether we fall prey or not to these unkind fundamentalists in the coming future, Hindu sprirituality will flourish to torment these fundamentalists! (sounding queer?!! Haha..) ..Namaste!!
Muslims are killing Muslims world over.
Another plot to defame Indian Muslim and a well devised story to increase Hindu Muslim tensions in India and thus destabilize indian peace and prosperity.
Oh really??? LOL… its history and you can't deny it. Muslim destyoed India and they r stilll doing samething.
Do u know anything about recent Malda violence? Muslim burnt cars, police station in west bengal and NO NEWS IN TV CHANNELS. This is what happen everytime. No news against muslim
History is mute witness of barbarity of moghuls on kafirs, genocide of Hindus by moghuls is unparalleled in world history. Lessons learnt from history must
not be ignored.
I have a few questions to ask of the intelligent and creative people who compiled these evidences.
Elst is also known to be a Christian fundamentalist- many in the Hindu right think that the Vatican has been sponsoring conversions. Elst meanwhile purports to show the Hindu-Christian relations as peaceful with Islam as a common enemy.Mr. Elst hence in the face of mounting evidence of Hindutva hatred of Christianity tries to falsify facts and construct a common enemy. Why should his pseudo-history be believed? Moreover, he compares the holocaust lasting at most 12 years and causing enormous loss of life, to a period of 700 years (that is when we take his figures at face value). His sense of analogy shows that he will go to any extent to falsify facts. These 'facts of his are propagated by RSS and its affiliates for purely electoral reasons which cause nothing but communal tensions and strife. The RSS meanwhile hide their own history of betrayals from the freedom struggle and hatred of Ambedkar by hiding their own works like 'We and Our Nationhood Defined' where Golwalkar praised Hitler and Mussolini. This year, their government has deliberately not allowed the publication of Ambedkar's works from the govt owned Publications and hence the works are not being sold in the World Book Fair. Who the hell are they fooling while talking of 'Hindu Unity' when they are in reality an organization of Chitpawan Brahmins founded to counter Ambedkar with not a single record of fighting the British?
If the Hindus were so subjugated under Muslim rule- how the hell did Jagat Seth become the Country's richest financier under Siraj-ud-Daulah, capable enough to aide the British against the Nawab who allowed him to prosper.
If the Hindus were so united. why was Raja Jai Singh and Jaswant Singh, the Rajput Kings, fighting as generals for the Mughals against Shivaji? Why did Shivaji not get a single Brahmin to bless him and had to import Brahmins from the north for his Tilak?
If Muslims were so barbaric- why did Raskhan right poetry in devotion of Krishna when he was a Muslim? Why did Kabir criticize both Hindus and Muslims? Who was Rahim and Dara Shikoh?
If there was a Mass slaughter, why is India 80% Hindu unlike Countries like Iran and Indonesia which changed their majority religions during the course of History?
If there was a Hindu-Muslim struggle going on, why did the Marathas invade and loot Bengal causing such enormous devastation in 1739-40, knowing full well that the majority of Bnegal was Hindu?
Why did the Rajput and Sikhs not collaborate with the Marathas during the Third Battle of Panipat?
If only the Muslims are barbarians- why did Changez Khan, a Mongol Buddhist invade Iran and not only caused enormous destruction and rapes, but put salt in the fields so that no crops could grow there for centuries? Do the patriotic Sanghis know that had Iltutmish as the Sultan of Delhi not acted diplomatically, Changez Khan would have invaded India and caused havoc as he did throughout much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe?
The project to paint Muslims as the enemy by conducting a false reading of History based on pseudo-Historians in the service of Evangelical fundamentalist organization is a clear move to hide their own shameful past by the Sangh Pariwar- where they collaborated with the Muslim League for India's partition and opposed the constitution and even the national flag.
Fascists should not talk of massacres when they themselves have to offer nothing but hatred and killings to the country.
You have some points but we can't deny the fact that its our History. Hindu Kings fought each other and thats why Muslim easily conquered India. Same tactics was later used by British. Our Temple were destoyed and converted to mosque, People were killed and forced to convert to islam. However there were many people (Shudra Caste) who converted to Islam because they were treated as slave by Brahmins and Upper Classes.
Hindu are not 80% of India, don't forget that Pakistan, Bangladesh and some parts of Afghanistan were also part of India. and now these countires are 99% Muslim. SO if we combine the population of these countires than Hindu are about 60%.
Also don't forget that in 1947 there were 25% of Hindu, Sikhs in Pakistan and now less than 2%, and they live a life like Hell.
We all know that European are also responsible for many massacres and Holocaust but it was more for Land Acquisition rather than Religion Domination. And muslim ahev only 1 objective: Islam as religion of whole world.
These bastards are still doind same thing that they did in last 1000 years. Do you have any idea of situation of Yezidis people in Arab Counties?
Sorry but you have to try to understand what exactly is happening in Arab countires and moreover in our own country. Latest Example is Malda Violence: No coverage from Media at all. This exactly what happen everytime. They kill innocents and no coverage from Media, they detsroy house of Hindu, Sikhs, Buddhist, they burn Temple, They burn Police station, They destroy Vehicles,BUT NO COVERAGE FROM MEDIA. but 1 muslim is killed by angry mod its a breaking and and suddenly everyone wake up (including Amir Khan and Sharukh Kahn) and India become Intollerant
So the tortures in Sikh museum is their figment of imagination
Basically ISIS has always existed
It is a history written by Muslim historians only, no denial. Hats off to Sikh ancestors and and Maratha fighters. These Muslim barbarians existed right from 6 or 7th century..They create problems and claim they are peaceful:-). Muslims need to reform themselves in this modern society, there is no other option.
Well India had a Hindu population so obviously an invading Muslim army would be killing Hindus. 30k Hindus killed, that may have been the army. Armies are usually killed in such instances, historically speaking. Sad thing yea…but…Such massacres happened a lot in history. Romans did it, Persians did it. (Europeans did it in the Americas. It was not done primarily because they were not of the same faith. It was for ambitions, love of conquest, riches, gold and then later civilizing them by forcing Christianity on them. All conquests are.). Saying it was because it was because they were Hindu is taking a wrong line. Maybe they did kill more, some individuals because they were Hindus, maybe there were few forced conversions. History knowledge is fine but they need to be taken with a pinch of salt. First reader needs to know there is no proof provided in above article which proves such a thing happened because they were Hindus. Its just being said some other guy documented this in the past.
Oh btw, Hindu Kush meaning Hindu slaughter is not confirmed accurate. There are other origins to that name which also should have been mentioned. (Top of my mind there is a Indus river and there used to be a Kushan empire, maybe some mixture happened). You make it sound like we Hindus are supposed to feel sorry for slaughter of our ancestors which happened a 1000 years ago.
Really man we don't need such articles stirring up emotions of the wrong kind. You want to talk history, speak of it without taking sides. You are talking like Hindus are due for a payback and Muslims are so bad.
I am a born Hindu and I don't give a fuck if some Muslim conqueror killed some Hindu a few hundred years back. They are dead I cant help them. Important thing to keep in mind is, even if the Hindu holocaust happened, it was in the past. Nobody living today had anything to do with it.
And buddy I do care. For my living friends and family who are from many different faiths. I care for the living and not dead.
But course, logic is not needed when emotions run high.
Another Chutiya Spotted… Sorry for my words but you don't have any knowledge of what is happening in India right now…..
Entire cities were burnt and all inhabitants were killed. they were no army… I am from Sultanpur Lodhi, Punjab. This city was burnt 3 TIMES, by muslim invaders and all civilians were killed. There are still archaeology & written proof of it.
So you don't give a fuck to what happened 100 years back… but what about that is happening right now in India? What about Kashmiri pandits (milliones were forced to leave their home in their own country). Do you have any idea about situation of Hindu and sikhs living in pakistan?
Everyday Hindu's are killed by muslims in India but there are no news in News channels, but 1 muslim is killed and it become breaking news, and they start returing their awards… WTF?
Do u know anything about Malda Violence in West Bengal? go and google it
Do you knwo what these bastards are doing with non-muslims in Arab countries? ISIS is Killing thousands of innocents. ALL THIS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, IN PRESENT. DO YOU STILL GIVE A FUCK…..?
THAN YOU ARE CHUTIYA
Good one Desi Munde…..where in Sultanpur are u from……?
Does the truth depend on Media? Should we trust to media which spread the news that creates dispute and birth the communal violence. I have a question like, I am not saying the Islamic India was good. But if they have really killed this number of Hindus, we have 80% population of this community in India. Muslims are just 20% inspite of people saying muslims are not following family member restrictions.
Please add 16 Crore Muslims of Bangladesh and 20 crore of Pakistan. Because these 2 countries were parts of India. Pkaistan 20 crore, Bangladesh 16 crore and India almost over 20 crore. 20+20+16 = 56 Crore. And You know whats the population of all Arab Countries put together????? 30 Crore. I hope you understand the situation here….
I agree with you. But as I believe, the Islamic India was for more than 500 years.If they have really killed the number that is mentioned, if they have really broken the temples that we aware via media then in 500 years they have destroyed everything…If all of them are cruel then 500 years is enough for that… But still in India we have lots of temples which are proud that we have thousands of year old temples in our country. If we consider 56Cr Muslim then we have around 90Cr Hindu community which is much much still higher. I am not criticizing any person but of course to Media and Politicians, who are actually the origin for all of this disputes.
Brother its a fact. Many of temples which still exist are located in small villages, so muslim rulers had no information about them. They destroyed , at least tried to destroy every temple that they found. Many of Mosque of India were originally Temples. Here is an example how they converted Temple to Mosque http://www.mysteryofindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Daityasudan-temple-Attempt-of-conversion-to-mosque.jpg
It’s Islam faith which allows for killing of non Muslims..
Even now the only religion that kills innocents are Muslims
Barbaric and Islam actually allows such killings
Shameful but true…look at all over the world now..terrorists allow Muslims to walk away but kill non Muslims
God is great Muslims say..doubt their rhetoric as his is merciful..
But how can that be true ? Islam its religion of peace ?
The inability to unite in distress has reduced us, Hindus from being the most advanced and prosperous civilization to being the most brutalised.
What is worrisome though is the fact that most of us, Hindus, are still very uncomfortable with the idea of Hindu Unification. It is as if possessed by a death wish we don’t want to learn from History. Those refusing to learn from history are destined to repeat it. God forbid.
What happened in Kashmir were these type of tortures to Hindu men and women..but no Indian Muslim protested it , criticized it .We hold every Indian Muslim accountable to the inhuman tortures done on Kashmiri Hindus…we will not excuse any Muslim for that …we will execute them for their sins…
There is fundamental error in Islam : Allah is only God, non believers are sinners. It has to evolve with times.
Good article. Makes sense.