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Secularism: A bane for Hindus
Islam's Contribution: A Myth
A version which underplay the real impact of Islamic invasion on Hindu society and which tries to weave a story of denial; highlighting positive aspects of the Islamic invasion of India @Aabhas24 pic.twitter.com/BHQd4GEotM
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
while sweeping away the mass destruction and holocaust that ensued as a mere generalization, isolated incidents, figment of Hindu imagination or plainly inevitable.
Dalrymple is one of the foremost proponents of the positive effect of the Islamic invasion of India @NioZenji
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
while sweeping away the mass destruction and holocaust that ensued as a mere generalization, isolated incidents, figment of Hindu imagination or plainly inevitable.
Dalrymple is one of the foremost proponents of the positive effect of the Islamic invasion of India @NioZenji
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
and how India โsupposedlyโ benefited from a bloody invasion.
People who are listing Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Red Fort, and Agra Fort as contributions to India should be really ashamed of themselves as they canโt tell the difference between real contribution to culture
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
and civilization from self- aggrandizement, self-serving, egotistical constructions made on the back of poor peopleโs labour and tax money extracted from an already impoverished people.
Let us clear the air on the Islamic contributions to India and Hindu society at large.
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Letโs look at some broad categories that can be used as a framework to measure them.
Universities and Colleges
Before the advent of Islam on Indian soil, India had as many as 20 large universities some of them which were international standards.@Sanjay_Dixit
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Some of the prominent ones were Takshashila, Nalanda, SharadaPeeth, Varanasi, Kanchipuram, Valabhi, Vikramshila, Jagaddala, Lalitgiri, Phuphagiri, Udayagiri, Odantapuri, Ratnagiri (Odisha) etc.,@Prabhak96203732 @idreamofghouls
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
where student from across the world studied Mathematics, Algebra, Astronomy-Physics, Alchemy, Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Literature and a whole lot of other subjects.
As Muslim invaders progressed east across India, these Universities were extinguished one by one starting with
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Takshashila, largest and the oldest, to the brutal destruction and burning of Nalanda by Bhaktiyar Khilji in 1193AD.
In turn, none of these benign invaders from Bin Qasim to Kutub-udin-Aibak to Babur to Aurangzeb to Nadir Shah instituted a new University or center of learning.
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Health-care๐ก๐ก
Fa-Hian, writing about Magadhain 400 AD, has mentioned that a well-organized health-care system existed in India.
According to him
Nobles and householders of this country had founded hospitals within the city to which the poor of all countries,@VashiAgniveer
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
the destitute, the crippled and the diseased may repair.
They receive every kind of requisite help.
Physicians inspect their diseases, and according to their cases, order the food and drink, medicines or decoctions, everything in fact that contributes to their ease.
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
When cured they depart at their ease.
Fa-Hianโs account coupled with Charakaโs treatise on medicine and hospitals shows that India may have been one of the first countries to institutionalize public health care. @RajivMessage
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Earlier during the Mauryan rule, Ashoka (300 BC) had institutionalized hospitals and established veterinary clinics in towns and villages and even on busy highways.
Trade and Economics๐ก๐ก
India has always been an agrarian and trading economy.
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Trade within India, as well as other parts of the world, was highly developed and well organized since ancient times.
For example, Indian traders invented the promissory note prevalent today.
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Many Indian trading families settled in the Arabian Peninsula, Damascus, Persia, Jerusalem, Rome, Alexandria, South East Asia and other trading hubs around the known world.
Trade was carried out by sea and by land through an extensive trade network. @yesmrsuraj
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Trade with ancient parts of the world can be traced back to the Sarasvati-Indus civilization of India where some of the oldest ports and dry docks (technology and engineering marvel) have been unearthed. @AskAnshul
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
Thus, even in this area, India has not received anything unique or exemplary from the Islamic conquerors that could have added value to the existing system.
In fact, Islam had a negative impact on trade and businesses.@ModifidBhaaarat @man_in_bhagwa16
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
A deeper study into trading families of ancient India will reveal that all of them were Hinduโs โ a revealing fact as to who controlled trade even when the ruler was Muslim.
Islam had little or no impact on trade, nor did it open new markets nor did it bring in new systems.
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
In fact, many Hindu traders of Bengal were many times bigger than the entire East India Company and all its shareholders put together.
With the above perspective in mind, itโs easy to see how half-baked historians like William Dalrymple who concoct grand tales of Muslim rule,
— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
making Indian Muslims live in a dreamland of fake Mughal glory thereby forgetting their roots as well reality.
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— dharmik ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐๏ธ๐ (@getmesomelatte) August 9, 2019
