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Published on Apr 17, 2015

A brief chronicle of all the Hindu bravehearts who for over five hundred years fought
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jagwinder singh , Interim Head Expertise/NPD at Suzlon Group at SuzlonEenergy Ltd.

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History of Hindu Heroism

1. 1. History of Hindu Heroism A QUICK CHRONICLE OF ALL THOSE HINDU
BRAVEHEARTS WHO FOR OVER 550 YEARS FOUGHT ISLAMIZATION AND PAID
WITH THEIR LIVES TO KEEP OUR RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY ALIVE
2. 2. You Must Know Mohammad Ghori Mohammad Ghazni Muhammad Bin
Tughlaq Ala-ud-din Khilji Babur Akbar Shah Jahan Jahangir Aurangzeb Tipu
Sultan
3. 3. You must have Nodded yes to all these names Remembered your history
books talking about them Remembered some monuments named after them
Thought about all aesthetic beauty of Muslim architecture Told yourself that
India would be culturally void had these rulers not brought poetry and aesthetics
with them Remembered that after initial war and arson, Muslim rulers ensured
Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony Remembered that Akbar even had a
Hindu wife .and so it goes
4. 4. Do you know? Prithviraj Jayachandra Pulakesin Nagabhatta Lalitaditya
Muktapida Jayapala Lakshmadeva Govindachandra Arnoraja Naikidevi
Mularaja Hariraja Bhimapala Vidyadhara Bhimadeva Paramara Bhoja
5. 5. Pulakesin may ring a bell Prithviraj Chauhan may also sound familiar The
rest.? A Clue: Some of these names belong to these dynasties: Chalukya
Chauhan Gahadavad Rajput Well
6. 6. A Journey of Rediscovery Time to rediscover the history of Bharata To be
aware of what our ancestors did to protect Bharata The freedom that we enjoy

today and the Sanatana (Eternal) heritage and culture that gives us this freedom
came at a very heavy cost. We know little or nothing about the names of those
who paid that cost. This is the story of those names of our brave past. An attempt
to pay respects to those brave Hindus who paid with their lives to keep Bharata
and her culture alive.
7. 7. 634 CE & Hindu resistance This affair will be a source of great anxiety and so
we must put it offfor every time an army goes, [vast] number of Mussalmans
are killed. So think no more of such a design. The Caliph to Hajjaj, the Governor
of Iraq in 708 in response to a request to send another expedition after the losses
suffered between CE 634 to 708 when the Arab invasion began into Thana
(Maharashtra) and Broach (Gujarat). When the final conquest of Sindh
happened, it was a minor affair This was because no mass conversions took
place For idolaters, the choice was between Islam and death Hindus chose the
latter This forced Arabs to relax their code and they hence were forced to allow
Hindus to rebuild temples Can we emulate our proud Hindu ancestors today?
8. 8. The Arabs were mighty, but But they had to wait for 70 years till they made
an effective breach on Indian borders near Sindh in CE 713. At the time when
Arabs were getting routed in India, the former were the mightiest power Till then
they had had rather easy conquests in Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Khorasan from CE
632 to 643 Byzantine, the province of Egypt had fallen to them in CE 641 By CE
650 inner Mongolia, Bukhara, Tashkand, Samarkand were annexed These small
Hindu principalities of Sindh gave such a tough resistance that the Islamized
Turks had to take over from the Arabs to carry on Jihad against Sind Can we
imbibe this fighting spirit?
9. 9. The Heroes Chaulkya - Pulakesin Avani Janasraya This Chalukya ruler
defeated the Arab army, which had run over the kingdoms of Sindhu, Kutch,
Saurashtra, Cavoatak, Maurya and Gurjara. At Navasari this brave king stopped
them and beat them back. He got the title of Dakshinpatha Sadhata (solid pillar
of Dakshinpatha) and Anivattaka Nirvartayi (repeller of the unrepellable)
Nagabhatta I Gurjara Pratihara King This ruler of Avanti (Malwa) in CE 725
defeated the Mohammadean ruler who invaded his dominions. Referring to one
these kings, a Muslim historian wrote: Among the princes of India there is no
greater foe of the Mohammedan faith than he. The Pratihara kings waged
constant war against the Arab prince of Multan
10. 10. The Heroes Lalitaditya Muktapida Between 724-760 this king blocked
those Arabs who made advances north of Sindh in Punjab and Kashmir Jayapala
Shahiya dynasty Hindus had lost Kabul in the closing decade of 10th century.
King Jayapala made a bold bid to recapture Kabul. The Rajas of Ajmer, Delhi,
Kalinjar, Kanauj came together & contributed troops and their might reduced the
Islamic warriors to despair. Snowstorm forced Jayapala to stop the war and pen a
negotiation for peace saying thus: You have heard and know the ableness of
Indians they fear not death or destructionIn the affairs of honour and renown
we would place ourselves like roast meat and upon the dagger like the sunrays
It is said by Bildhuri that this King ordered all the Turushkas to shave off their
heads as a symbol of their submission So they retired from various parts of India
and left their positions only to seek refuge at last near Mahfuzah which the Arab
Governor had built for them
11. 11. The Heroes Anandpala Jayapapalas successor Anandpala was equally
valiant and refused passage to the Mahmud Ghazni army This led to a long
battle, which Anandpala lost. His son was taken captive, converted to Islam.

 When Mahmud had to leave to take care of an attack, he left Indian possessions
in hands of Sukhapala who returned to Hindu fold Trilochanapala He was the
successor of Anandpala and had retired to hills of Kashmir. When Mahmud
attacked, the battle lasted several days. Kalhana writes in glowing terms in the
Rajatarangini : Even after he (Mahmud) had obtained victory, the Hammira did
not breathe freely, thinking of the superhuman prowess of the illustrious
Trilochanapala
12. 12. The Heroes Bhimapala (Nidar Bhima) He was the king of Lohara, on the
border of Kashmir and he was the reason Mahumd suffered great disaster against
India and with great difficulty, managed to return to Ghazni Contemporary
Muslim historians do not mention this expedition. The Shahiyas fought with
valour for 50 years and ultimately collapsed but not before three Shahi kings
had sacrificed themselves on the battlefield. Prithviraja II The Hansi stone
inscription describes the Hammira as a dagger pointed at the whole world The
flag that fluttered at the gateway of this fort we are told defied the Hammira
Prithviraja II was compared to Sri Rama and Kilhana (who was in charge of
Hansi) to Hanumana
13. 13. The Heroes Lakshmadeva After the death of Bhoja Paramara in CE 1055
and Raja Karna Kalachuri CE 1072 , Mahmud attacked again but was defeated
again by Lakshmadeva the Paramara ruler of Ujjain Govinda Chandra of the
Gahadavad Dynasty Kanauj was protected by this ruler and many inscriptions
around this period speak again and again of the rout of Turushka armies Arnoraja,
Chauhan Dynasty Vigraharaja Worst defeat of Muslims was at the hands of
Arnoraja, the Chuahan ruler of Ajmer (CE 1133- 1151) and the Muslim
commander had to flee before the might of the Chauhans Vigraharaja
conquered Delhi and Hansi from the Tomaras Raja Vidyadhara Chandela
Dynasty When Mahmud asked him to surrender & become Muslim, he replied
saying that he had nothing to say except on the battlefield.
14. 14. The Heroes and a Heroine Queen Naikidevi and Mulraja When Gujarat
was attacked in CE 1178, Queen Naikidevi taking her son in her lap led the
Chalukya army against the Turushkas and defeated them at the foot of Mount
Abu Mularaja was described as conqueror of Garjanakas (dwellers of Ghazni).
One inscription states that during the reign of Mularaja even a woman could
defeat the Hammira Prithviraj III While Mahmud reached Lahore he was met with
Prithviraj III. Prithviraja-Vijaya accounts say that the Chauhan ruler was aware of
the rise of a beef eating Mlechha named Ghuri who had captured Garjani.
Hammira Mahakavya states that Prithviraja- defeated Ghuri 7 times while
Prabandha Chintamani and Prithivirajaraso put his victories at 21!
15. 15. The Heroes Bhimadeva II Aibak had turned to Gujarat in 1197 where the
Chalukyan army again faced the Muslims at the foot of Mt Abu where Ghuri had
been defeated in 1178 In the cover of night they caught the Chalukyan army
unawares and Hindus were defeated However, Bhimadeva II recovered the
whole of kingdom and was back in Anhilwara in 1201 Inscriptions at Dabhoi and
Verawal refer to heroic struggles of two generals of Chalukya King Lavanaprasad
and Sridhara Thanks to him, Gujarat remained independent for the whole of the
next century. No other dynasty put up a more sustained struggle against Muslim
invaders
16. 16. The Heroes Lakshmana Sena and the King of Kamrupa East Bengal was
protected by successors of Lakshman Sena Madanapara and Edipur inscriptions
of Visvaraupa Sena and Keshava Sena, successors of Lakshmana Sena speak of

victories won by them over yavanas Epigraphic evidence states the they ruled
for three generations at Vikramapur near Dacca In Assam, the King of Kamrupa
destroyed Bakhtiyar Khilji and repeated invasions on the Brahmaputra were
warded off Jayachandra, Gahadavad ruler of Kanauj Encountered Ghuri in fierce
battle in 1194, but was defeated Jayachandras son Harishchandra recovered
Kanauj, Jaunpur & Mirzapur in 1197 Kanauj stayed independent till Iltutmish
conquered it
17. 17. Defence of Somanath 50,000 infidels were killed round about the temple.
The battle in CE 1026 raged with fury and victory was long doubtful Though the
sacred image of Somanatha was destroyed, Mahmud Ghazni was frightened by
the rallying of Hindu forces and beat a retreat However, Mahmud could not take
the road he took to attack Somnath as the Chalukya King Bhimadeva I (Gujarat)
or Paramara Bhoja of Malwa stood in his way (Gardizi refers to a Param Dev,
Badshah of Hindus which could mean either of these kings). Mahmud finally
beat a retreat via Multan and Mansurah
18. 18. Concluding Notes The first Arab invasion was in 636 near Thana Mumbai
Muslim rule was successfully established in Bharata in 1206 The Muslim rule
over northern India (from 1206 to 1707) till Aurangzebs death was 500 years
Hindu resistance lasted over 570 years Countless Hindu kings and common
Hindus continuously fought for their ancient dharma and to keep Islamic rule at
bay Hindus never took advantage of their enemys weakness, which
magnanimity proved costly We did have Muslim rule, but nowhere else in the
world did Islam encounter such fierce challenge except at the hands of Hindus.
Nowhere else in the world has any civilization except the Hindu survived to tell
the tale. Our Hindu past is a thing to be proud of, and so is our fighting spirit.
19. 19. Credits Information for this entire presentation is derived from the book
Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders by Sita Ram Goel and Dr Ram
Gopal Mishra. Presented by Manini on behalf of IndiaFacts Research Centre
20. 20. Its an IndiaFacts Presentation
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