“Thirteen Centuries of Silence: A Historical Study of the Hindu Genocide (7th Century – 2025)”
By Cdr Alok Mohan
Abstract
This paper traces the long and often suppressed history of systematic violence against Hindus, beginning with early Islamic invasions in the 7th century and continuing through multiple episodes of massacres, forced conversions, and targeted ethnic cleansing into the modern period. Drawing from primary Islamic chronicles, modern historians, and survivor testimonies, this study seeks to document what many have termed the “Hindu genocide.” Particular attention is given to the well-documented episodes of mass violence in 1946 (Direct Action Day), 1947 (Partition), 1990 (Kashmiri Hindu Exodus), and beyond, up to persecutions in post-2000 South Asia. The aim is to uncover, chronicle, and contextualize the continued marginalization and erasure of Hindu sufferings in historical discourse.
1. Introduction
Hindus, one of the world’s oldest surviving civilizations, have endured centuries of foreign invasions, colonial exploitation, and genocidal campaigns. Despite this, their suffering remains underrepresented in global historical and human rights discourse. This paper endeavors to correct this by examining the continuum of religious and ethnic persecution faced by Hindus from the 7th century CE to 2025.
Contemporary Betrayal and Political Complicity
In the wake of 1947, what was portrayed as “Independence” was, in reality, a bloody amputation of India, in which one-third of the nation was surrendered overnight under the guise of freedom, leaving millions of Hindus slaughtered, displaced, or dishonored. Rather than commemorating the end of colonial and Islamic rule with a restoration of Hindu sovereignty, the Indian leadership, beginning with Jawaharlal Nehru, charted a path of denial and appeasement. The enduring questions surrounding Nehru’s personal identity and that of his daughter—known to the public as Indira Gandhi but born Maimuna Begum, wife of Feroze Khan—symbolize a broader suppression of historical truth and political duplicity. Successive governments, including the present leadership, has failed to question the presence and growing influence of Islam in a nation that was ethnically and religiously partitioned on explicitly Islamic lines. Despite three major wars with Pakistan and unrelenting jihadist violence, the borders have never been redrawn, nor have Hindus been resettled in strategic regions like Kashmir to ensure demographic and civilizational integrity—measures taken effectively in places like Crimea and Kaliningrad.
In modern Bharat, Hindus are still being abducted, raped, and murdered in West Bengal, Kerala, and Kashmir—regions where Islamic radicalism operates openly. Yet the Indian state continues to placate the very ideologies that led to Partition, while the disunited, leaderless Hindu community remains defanged and disenfranchised. The Sikhs, who once valiantly defended Dharma, were massacred in 1984 not by foreign invaders, but by their own government—a government that refused to honor the spiritual civilizational impulse of Akhand Bharat. Meanwhile, Hindus—rendered unarmed “headless chickens”—are prey to rising conversions and organized subversion in the south and east of the country. Rather than empowering the people with the means to defend their heritage and civilization, the leadership celebrates Ram without protecting Ramarajya. Without acknowledging the civilizational reality of Partition, without asking the fundamental question—“What are the Muslims doing in Partitioned India after demanding and receiving Pakistan?”—Bharat remains a powder keg. Until the day Hindus awaken to their historic and existential responsibilities, and until Dharma warriors emerge once again, the wounds of 1947 will continue to fester, and the idea of India will continue to drift further from its spiritual moorings.
2. Early Islamic Conquests and Massacres (7th – 13th Century)
2.1 Arab Invasion (Sindh, 712 AD)
Mohammad bin Qasim’s conquest of Sindh led to widespread massacres. Chronicles like Chachnama and Futuh al-Buldan document the slaughter of resisting Hindu communities.
Forced conversions, temple destruction, and the enslavement of women and children were rampant.
2.2 Ghaznavid Raids (1001–1026)
Mahmud of Ghazni’s 17 invasions, notably the sack of Somnath, led to mass killings (estimated 50,000+) and temple destruction.
His secretary, Al-Utbi, proudly documents rivers running red with infidel blood (Tarikh-i-Yamini).
2.3 Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)
Sultans such as Qutb-ud-din Aibak, Alauddin Khilji, and Balban orchestrated systematic persecution.
Historian Will Durant called it the “bloodiest story in history.”
Wassaf writes of 20,000 women taken as sex slaves and mass beheadings in Kambayat.
3. Mughal Period and Cultural Destruction (1526–1707)
Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, desecrated temples and ordered executions of Hindu civilians.
Aurangzeb, the most aggressive, demolished thousands of temples, reimposed jizya (tax on non-Muslims), and forced mass conversions.
Francois Gautier and Alain Danielou both compare this period’s massacres to the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide in scope.
4. Colonial Neglect and Documentation Gaps (1707–1946)
British colonizers often ignored or suppressed Hindu suffering for political gain, promoting a “divide and rule” strategy.
Hindu persecution continued in princely states and under Muslim-majority regions.
Minimal redressal mechanisms existed, contributing to historical amnesia.
5. 20th Century Genocides
5.1 Direct Action Day (1946)
Initiated by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League.
Calcutta Riots: 5,000+ Hindus killed in three days.
Survivors recounted brutal killings, gang rapes, and homes set ablaze.
5.2 Partition of India (1947)
At least 1 million Hindus and Sikhs massacred in Punjab, Bengal, and Sindh.
Over 14 million displaced.
Hindu & Sikh women were abducted, raped, and trafficked.
5.3 Kashmiri Hindu Genocide (1990)
Systematic ethnic cleansing of 350,000+ Kashmiri Hindus.
Over 700 murdered, including public executions, rapes, and mutilations.
Government and media largely underreported the scale.
6. Post-1990 Persecution
6.1 Bangladesh (2001, 2014)
Hindu homes and temples torched.
Hundreds of women raped during post-election violence.
6.2 Pakistan (1947–2025)
Steady decline of Hindu population from 30% in 1946, 15% in 1947 to <1.5% today.
Forced conversions, temple desecrations, kidnappings of minor girls (e.g., Rinkle Kumari case).
Hindu girls married to Muslim men through coercion and threats.
6.3 Afghanistan and Taliban Rule
Once home to thriving Hindu/Sikh communities.
By 2021, fewer than 10 Hindu/Sikh families remained, many victims of assassinations and bombings.
6.4 Modern India
Hindu monks lynched (e.g., Palghar, 2020), temple desecrations, and political normalization of anti-Hindu narratives.
Growing global concern over Hinduphobia in academia and media.
7. Genocide Denial and Historical Negationism
Koenraad Elst and others highlight active suppression of Hindu genocide in Indian academia.
Despite extensive documentation, the term “Hindu genocide” remains politically sensitive.
UN, global media, and Western academia have shown reluctance to acknowledge these atrocities.
8. Pahalgam Attack: the Unlearnt Lessons
The Pahalgam terror attack of April 2025, one of the deadliest in recent years, in which 28 people were killed—including officers from the Army, Navy, Intelligence Bureau, state police, and even foreign nationals from Israel and Italy—has once again exposed the chronic failure of the Indian state to protect its citizens, particularly in Kashmir. A nation’s first and foremost duty is the protection of its people. Yet Bharat, despite its global image as a rising power, remains unable—or unwilling—to ensure basic security in its own territory. The continued Islamist violence in Kashmir, the “Switzerland of the East,” reveals how successive governments, including the current one under Prime Minister Modi, have chosen appeasement over accountability, and placation over protection. Instead of dismantling the legacy of Partition, confronting Pakistan head-on, and securing the region by resettling Hindu and Sikh families along the borders, New Delhi has retreated into political denial and strategic weakness.
There is no national memorial for the Hindus butchered during the 1947 genocide, and the so-called Hindu Holocaust Museum in Delhi stands as a tokenistic gesture—nowhere near the scale, seriousness, or symbolism of the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. The tragic consequence of this moral amnesia is national demoralization. As seen with the Pahalgam attack, each such incident not only deepens the sense of insecurity among Hindus, but also emboldens terror networks, discourages tourism, destabilizes border states like East Punjab, and further cements Kashmir’s Islamic radical identity.
This national trajectory, if not reversed, guarantees more unrest and bloodshed. A new constitutional vision is needed—one that discards the Gandhian illusion of Hindu-Muslim unity post-Partition, and instead embraces the civilizational clarity of leaders like Sri Ram, Shivaji Maharaj, and Guru Gobind Singhji. Bharat must wake from its self-imposed slumber, seal its eastern borders, deport illegal BOGUSdeshi immigrants, and prosecute appeasement-driven leaders who compromise national unity and Hindu dignity—such as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose policies have driven thousands of Hindus from West Bengal. A Hindu Rashtra, based on Dharma and justice, not religious appeasement or Nehruvian secularism, is the only sustainable foundation for a peaceful and prosperous Bharat. Until Hindus rise from political passivity to become united lions—assertive, armed with truth, and territorially assertive—the land of Ram will remain vulnerable to internal betrayal and external barbarism.
9. Conclusion
The Hindu genocide represents one of the most extensive, under-researched, and unacknowledged atrocities in human history. Over 13 centuries, millions of Hindus were killed, displaced, and forcibly converted. While other genocides have received formal recognition and reparations, the Hindu experience remains largely forgotten. This must change.
Recognition, education, and reconciliation are essential. The historical record must be corrected, memorialized, and taught. Only then can justice begin.
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Gautier, Francois. Rewriting Indian History. 1996.
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Danielou, Alain. Histoire de l’Inde.
To be continued