Islamic invasion of India
There is some confusion on the precise date of Jalaluddin’s accession to the throne. Firishta asserts the date to be 1288 A.D. But according to Miftahul Futuh of Amir Khusro, it should be 1290 A.D. Barni places it somewhere in between, namely in 1289 A.D. Some of these Muslim chroniclers were more concerned with flattery of the monarch but not the precision of dates.Khilji won the throne by murdering number of turks and ministers…he also murdered the infant who was suppose to be the heir to the throne.
Of the many children sired by Jalaluddin in his harem full of women, three were old enough to have participated in helping their father in his anti-Hindu depredations. One was Khan-i- Khanan; the other two were Arkali Khan and Kadar Khan. “For each of these a palace was provided.” (P. 137, Vol III, Elliot & Dowson). Obviously the many Hindu mansions captured in the area comprising Vijayamandal, Shree and what are known today as Hauz Khas and Nizamuddin were occupied by Jalaluddin and his three sons.
Later in the year when Jalaluddin felt reassured that the Muslims of Old Delhi were reconciled to the crown on a Khilji usurper’s head, he “went into the city and alighted at the palace (daulat-khana)…and took up his seat on the throne of his predecessors.” (P. 137, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson). This is clearly what is now known to us as the Diwan-i-Khas (ancient Rajput palace in Delhi’s Red Fort).
Within a year of Jalaluddin’s accession, however, Malik Chajju, the nephew of the last Slave ruler Balban, proclaimed himself king and set out from Karra to raid Delhi. Jalaluddin too advanced to meet him. The two forces met in a battle about 25 miles from Badaun,The revolt was crushed and chajju was sent to multan with enough wine and women.
Whenever two such Muslim armies moved to meet in a headlong clash – and during the 1,000-year-long Muslim devil dance in India, hardly a day passed in which there was no revolt – all Hindu grain was commandeered, Hindu farmsteads burnt down, Hindu homes looted, Hindu women raped, their children kidnapped for conversion to Islam, Hindu unarmed people carried away to be sold as slaves and all Hindu temples turned into mosques and sanctified with the blood of slaughtered cows sprinkled on their walls. It is thus that most medieval temples stand converted and occupied as Muslim mosques even to our day.
Allauddin, the nephew-cum-son-in-law of Jalaluddin was now handed over the fief of Karra from the banished Malik Chajju. Allauddin, however, made common cause with Malik Chajju’s erstwhile associates and conspired with them to attack Delhi within a year of his taking over Karra. Allauddin hated his wife and her mother, the wife of the reigning Jalaluddin.
Muslims often pretend to denounce drinking but every page of our history is soaked in strong liquor and smeared with opium and other narcotics. They talk of Islam’s liberating influence on their women, but in actual life, keep them under the purdah, covered from head to foot.
In the year 1290 A.D. Jalaluddin plundered Ujjain and Malwa. “He destroyed the Mahankal and other renowned temples there, broke and burnt the idols and obtained great booty.” (Ibid). He then set his eyes on the famous Hindu fortress Ranthambhore. But capturing a Hindu mountain fortress garrisoned by brave Rajput forces was different from raiding open temples when unarmed pious priests were engaged in devotion and worship. Jalaluddin finding the fortress impregnable beat a shameful retreat saying that he “could not take it without sacrificing the lives of many Mussalmans and that he did not value the fort so much as the hair of a Mussalman. If he took the place and plundered it after the fall, many Mohammedans, the widows and orphans of the slain, would stand before him and turn the spoils into bitterness.”
In 1292 A.D Jalaluddin marched against Mandavgad in central India. This famous and beautiful Rajput capital was laid waste and its magnificent shrines and mansions were converted into Muslim mosques and tombs. As usual, in our history books the lying sarkari historians tell us that the Muslims had built those beautiful buildings. One has to be immensely stupid to think that the intelligent public would swallow such unmitigated lies!
Jalaluddin’s attack on the open city of Ujjain was a shame. Streams of Hindu pilgrims throughout the ages had donated their wealth to the temples here. Jalaluddin found it an easy target unlike the Ranthambhore fort. Pilgrims were massacred in thousands, captives carried away along with the immense loot.
It is worthwhile here to narrate how Jalaluddin met his end and that too at the hand of his own son-in-law Allauddin. Unbeknown to Jalaluddin, Allauddin raided Deogiri in the Deccan. Deogiri’s army was away from its garrison at the time. Allauddin mounted the assault without informing the sultan. It was only after Allauddin’s victory that Jalaluddin came to know of this extraordinary encounter of the Muslim forces belonging to his son-in-law. Jalaluddin argued that his son-in-law’s victory was also his own victory. He wanted to meet Allauddin and invited him to Delhi. But Allauddin would not come pleading a sense of guilt for having kept his father-in-law in the dark about his successful expedition to Deogiri, which he had planned on his own and in utmost secrecy. Jalaluddin was pleased. He proposed to visit Allauddin at Karra. In order to come to Karra, Jalaluddin had to cross the Ganga which Jalaluddin did, leaving his accompanying forces on the other bank of the river.
While crossing the river in a boat, Jalaluddin read from the Koran so that Allah gave good sense to his son-in-law Allauddin. When they met, the father kissed the son on his cheeks, tapped him lightly on his face, when several assassins, as had been arranged by Allauddin, struck off the head of Jalaluddin. His head was stuck on a spear and paraded in the town.
The next in line was Allauddin khilji..
The revenge that the two young Indian girls had taken against the monster-marauder, Mohammed Qasem, by having him packed off from India, as and where found, sewn in ox-hide, to his grave in Damascus, was quickly followed by resurgent Hindu forces who won back almost all the territory lost.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Qasim#Death] But the ghastly trail that Mohammed Qasem had left of raped women, murdered men and kidnapped children had led the affected people to a half-caste existence. On the one hand they hated the new Islamic faith which they had been terrorized into accepting while on the other they found their return to Hinduism barred by stupid and insensate shutters of Hindu orthodoxy. The gulf that the Hindus allowed to deepen between themselves and their erstwhile brethren, who had been victims of alien Muslim barbarism, swelled the ranks of the enemy turning the former peace-loving, God-fearing, patriotic Indians into marauders devastating the very land to protect which they had been suckled by their doting mothers.
West Asian gangster raids against India started once again under Alaptagin’s aegis. Alaptagin was the governor of Khorasan province under the Samanid rulers – a former Kshatriya race which had been forced to accept Islam. During Alaptagin’s eight-year tenure as governor (961-969 A.D.) his Turkish general, Sabuktagin, conducted the raids looting the countryside, burning crops, kidnapping helpless weeping women and abducting shrieking children for sale in the new thriving slave markets in neo-Muslim countries. Hindu Afghanistan had succumbed bit by bit to the inroads of Islam after Turkey, as also Iran, Iraq and Arabia – all Hindu countries -had succumbed to it earlier.
King Jaipal, who ruled over the Punjab and part of Afghanistan, was greatly distressed at this new enemy who instead of fielding a well disciplined army organized huge gangs of freebooters and highwaymen who looted homes, desecrated temples, abducted defenseless citizens and burnt their crops in the border areas.
While fathers are generally supposed to ensure a good and righteouos upbringing for their children, Sabuktagin, the villain that he was, chaperoned his son Mohammed in gangsterism from a very young age.
Deciding to punish these Muslim outlaws, Jaipal led an expedition to the valley of Lamaghan. Sabuktagin, accompanied by his son Mohammed – an understudy in highwaymanship – advanced from Ghazni. Skirmishes ensued for several days. The Muslim enemy as usual defiled all sources of water and used other foul means to make life in the countryside impossible. In the severe winter that followed both sides had to disengage and withdraw.
After the winter Sabuktagin had the audacity to send a delegation to Jaipal’s capital, Lahore, demanding tribute on pain of torturing and murdering the Hindu civilians in his custody. Jaipal put the impertinent delegation behind bars as reprisal against Sabuktagin’s savagery.
That started another war. Sabuktagin’s gang swooping on the poor rsidents of Lamaghan made a clean sweep of all their wealth and burnt down all their homesteads and fortifications. Sensing a common danger, the Indian rulers of Delhi, Ajmer, Kanauj and Kalanjar sent detachments and money to help Jaipal. The big force marched to the Lamaghan valley. But the earlier desolation wrought by Sabuktagin and lack of cohesion arising from divided loyalties, made the Hindu army ineffective. Sabuktagin’s guerilla attacks with detachments of 500-horse perpetrating their usual cruelties, caused the Hindu forces to withdraw from Lamaghan and Peshawar fell to the enemy and continues to be still lost to Hindudom. As was the custom with all Muslim overlords, conquest of a region meant only screwing money out of the poor subjects. Sabuktagin appointed tax-collectors and stationed a garrison of 2,000 in the Peshawar fort. Tax collection was but a euphemism for cruel extortionists to whip and maim the populace to squeeze money out of them; this state of affairs persisted throughout Muslim rule.
‘The Amir marched out towards Lamghan, which is a city celebrated for its great strength and abounding in wealth. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property. On the completion of his conquest he returned and promulgated accounts of the victories obtained for Islam, and every one, great and small, concurred in rejoicing over this result and thanking God.’ — Al Utbi, Tarikh Yamini
Sabuktagin died in Balkh in 997 A.D. after a 20-year career of active highwaymanship. Nurtured in vice and cruelty, Mohammed used to defy even his father Sabuktagin. The latter, therefore, had willed that his younger son, Ismail, should come to power after him. Ambitious Mohammed, who resented his father’s control, could never tolerate paying homage to a younger brother. He marched against Ghazni from Naishapur. Ismail hurried from Balkh. A fierce engagement followed leading to Ismail’s imprisonment in Jurjan fort.
Thus at the age of 30, Mohammed found himself the undisputed head of a principality which owed nominal allegiance to the kings of Ghazni. The kingdom of Ghazni was thus founded on international thievery.
Mohammed was of medium height and had an ugly pock-marked face. Once on looking into a mirror he was so horrified to see his own face that this cruel warrior who used to slaughter women and children, shied and shrank from facing himself in a mirror ever after.
