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Happened In The Reign Of Muhiuddin Muhammad Aurangazib Alamgir 1
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This Happened In The Reign Of Muhiuddin Muhammad Aurangazib
Alamgir 1
by A. Ghosh
Our India had many attacks inflicted upon her by vandals from
Arabia, pirates from Portugal, savages from many other badlands
but she has been, on the whole, capable of withstanding the
onslaughts, at the cost of immense sufferings of course. On the
whole, yes, but not always. This is the subject of our discussion
in this short write up.
An entire mountain range of the Himalayas had been named HINDU-KUSH
meaning 'slaughter of the Hindus' and till today, as far as I
know, no research has seriously been made by our people, to
determine how many exactly were the Hindus slaughtered by the
Mohammedans. According to a rough estimate made by Swami
Vivekananda, the correct number extended to more than 60 million.
And that figure didn't take into account numbers of Hindus
slaughtered every year in Hyderabad and other Mohammedan states,
by the various Nizams and Nawabs. They had to fulfill their
obligation to the DEEN-I-ILLAHI by killing so many kafirs every
year, almost like a quota. A few of the nawabs did the killings
secretly inside prisons, for instance; then there were those who
did it openly, as a measure of their Islamic 'greatness' such as
Tipu Sultan and others like him. The subject Hindu was forced to
put up with such conduct silently.
Then there were a great number of our temples, schools and
universities (Nalanda for instance), centers of art, etc were
destroyed, all in the name of Islam. Aurangzib alone destroyed
more than 10,000 Hindu temples during his reign. The relics are
still there all over India. However, such acts did not affect
Hindus' social conduct generally, only in exceptional cases. One
such case took place in North India during Aurangzib's time.
Now let us go to the South for a brief period. When a marriage had
been arranged among Hindus, the groom's party went to the bride's
house. Both had gone to bathe earlier in the river nearby,
separately, and then gathered together for the festivities. The
marriage took place, usually, between 9 AM and 12 noon during the
day. Everything took place in the open, in daylight and after the
wedding, the bride went to the groom's place along with the new
husband.
India's (or Bharatvarsha's) typical characteristic was the
underlying unity in the apparent diversity of our country.
Although different customs, local languages persisted in different
areas, the essentials were unchanged. Thus, for instance, although
some spoke Tamil instead of Gujarati, ate somewhat different foods
depending upon the produce from the land, the essentials in human
conduct, were nevertheless the same.
When a baby boy or girl is born and then grows up, and becomes a
young man or woman, learns his/her lessons, eventually gets
married, and so on, the Hindu system has specifics which apply to
all, never mind which province he/she may come from. Thus we have
well-known institutions of: Nam-karan, Anna-prashan, (for Brahmin
boys) Yajnopaveet-dharan, Varna-parichaya, Vivaha and so on. There
are specific laws enunciated for all such items that are
rigorously followed by the communities all over the country. This
unity of India has survived in great measure till today. In great
measure, yes; but not always. In our social, cultural and
religious matters, the political fall-outs had generally little
effect.
But a great change was imposed by the conduct of the Mohammedans
during the time of the notorious Aurangzib, who even today is
idolized by India's Mohammedan minority population. It is quite
clear that pressure had been building up on the Hindus over the
years but never did such pressure succeed in compelling the Hindus
to detract from their age-old customs. I am referring here to the
system followed in Hindu marriage (vivaha) and how it was
deflected by Islamic vandalism in North India.
Customs prevalent in the South were also used in the North, prior
to the persecutions unleashed by Aurangzib. It became unbearable
for the Hindus to take it any longer. Brigades of Mohammedan goons
would attack the wedding parties, in broad daylight, kidnap the
bride, rape her and then throw her out, all in great fun.
Oftentimes, a valorous bridegroom and his party would fight back
and Aurangzib's Moghul army would interfere and see to it that the
goons had their way. The groom and his party were slaughtered in
the open.
This kind of atrocious conduct of the Musalman became a pervading
menace, all in the name of Allah and Muhammad. If it had been a
bit tolerable during the reign of other rulers, it became truly
unbearable during the reign of Aurangzib.
Things became so unbearable that a certain Hindu warrior, who had
his wedding date fixed on a certain day and time, discovered that
his would-be bride had been kidnapped when she had gone to bathe
in the Ganga prior to her puja before the wedding. This warrior
then collected a number of his colleague warriors and they
rampaged Moghul property and also killed a number of Mohammedans.
The news reached Aurangzib's ears. He discovered that the leader
of the gang was the son of Mohammedan nobleman. He was summoned
and Aurangzib ordered his son to remain indoors for an unlimited
time until he was given the permission to go out of his father's
palace. That was no punishment in the eyes of the aggrieved. And
an uneasy peace survived for a few days before the same devil's
dance started again.
Eventually, unlike in South India, the northerners gave up
marriages to be held during day time. Hindu marriages started
taking place at nights. The groom would go to the bride's place in
late evening, get married before the fire and later on return with
the bride, also at night. That way the Moghuls were hesitant to go
out in Hindu localities where the darkness of the night made them
more vulnerable. The Hindus had the upper hand in the Hindu areas
in the dark. Many Muslims were mercilessly slaughtered and a kind
of truce took effect. All Hindu marriages started taking place
during the night in the Hindu North of India, and Muslim gangs
were held back due to fear.
The Islamic conduct did succeed, for once, in transforming Hindu
custom of marriage in broad daylight!
Reference: Sir Jadu Nath Sarkar's 'History of Aurangzib' (five
volumes).
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