The Islamic invasion of India commenced around 650 A.D., when a Muslim army secured a foothold in Seistan, and continued till the end of the eighteenth century, when the last Islamic crusader, Tipu Sultan, was overthrown by the British. According to Sita Ram Goel, "The cradle of Hindu culture on the eve of its Islamic invasion included what are at present the Sinkiang province of China, the Transoxiana region of Russia, the Seistan province of Iran and the sovereign states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Hordes of Arabs, Persians, Turks, and Afghans who had been successively inspired by the theology of Islam poured in, wave after wave, carrying fire and sword to every nook and corner of this vast area." Over the decades the so called Marxist-liberal historians have been negating the facts of Indian history and concealed the facts of persecution of Hindus by Muslim invaders. Historian Koenraad Elst rightly stated in his monumental work, Negationism in India; Concealing the Records of Islam, "the number of victims of the persecutions of Hindus by Muslims is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Nazi extermination policy, though no one has yet made the effort of tabulating the reported massacres and proposing a reasonable estimate of how many millions exactly must have died in the course of the Islamic campaign against Hinduism." American historian Will Durant stated that, the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. Historian Sita Ram Goel in his work Hindu Temples; What Happened to Them, has systematically documented the destruction of Hindu civilization especially the centers of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. He described how the temples which were not only a place of worship but also the centers of learning and knowledge of ancient science and technologies were destroyed by the fanatic Muslim invaders over a period of their rule.
During the 12th and 13th century, the hordes of Muslim invaders reached the gates of Bihar and Bengal and continued their zeal of rape, plunder and destruction of Hindu and Buddhist religious centers. The only two Hindu kingdoms in Eastern India that successfully resisted the Muslim invaders for several centuries were Orissa and Kamarupa. The repeated early Muslim invasions were successfully repulsed by the kings of Kamarupa which remained an independent kingdom till the last unconquered even by the Mughals. The Ahom kings who became themselves Hindus and erected numerous Hindu temples successfully resisted the repeated Mughal invasions for over a century with its limited resources.
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