भारत में सोमनाथ, बौद्ध और जैन मंदिरों के विध्वंस के ‘हिंदू’ विवरण

 

भारत में सोमनाथ, बौद्ध और जैन मंदिरों के विध्वंस के ‘हिंदू’ विवरण 

भारत के वर्तमान आरएसएस-भाजपा शासकों के अनुसार, भारतीय मुसलमान इतिहास के खलनायक हैं। उन्हें बाबरज़ादे (हिंदुस्तान के पहले मुग़ल सम्राट की संतान) के तौर पर पेश किया जाता है और उन्हें 711 ईस्वी में मोहम्मद बिन कासिम नामक एक अरब सैन्य दुर्जन द्वारा सिंध पर कब्ज़ा करने से लेकर मुस्लिम नाम वाले मध्यकालीन शासकों द्वारा किए गए सभी अपराधों के लिए ज़िम्मेदार ठहराया जाता है। हमें बताया जाता है कि मुसलमान नाम के शासकों का शासन इस्लामी शासन था जिसका उद्देश्य हिंदुस्तान को मूर्तिपूजा और हिंदू धर्म से मुक्त करना था। यह विषय आरएसएस से प्रशिक्षित भारत के प्रधानमंत्री मोदी और उनके सत्ताधारी अभिजात वर्ग के सदस्यों, जो स्वयं आरएसएस के सदस्य हैं, के बयानों में बार-बार सामने आता है।

उनका ताज़ा बयान 11 जनवरी, 2026 को सोमनाथ में स्वाभिमान पर्व का उद्घाटन करते हुए सामने आया, जब उन्होंने घोषणा की कि प्रभास पाटन की मिट्टी का हर कण शौर्य, साहस और वीरता का साक्षी है, और अनगिनत शिव भक्तों ने सोमनाथ के स्वरूप को संरक्षित करने के लिए अपने प्राणों का बलिदान दिया। उन्होंने कहा कि सोमनाथ स्वाभिमान पर्व के अवसर पर, वे उन सभी वीर पुरुषों और महिलाओं को सर्वप्रथम नमन करते हैं जिन्होंने सोमनाथ की रक्षा और पुनर्निर्माण के लिए अपने प्राणों की आहुति दी और भगवान महादेव को अपना सब कुछ अर्पित किया।

श्री मोदी ने आगे कहा, “जब ग़ज़नी से लेकर औरंगज़ेब तक के आक्रमणकारियों ने सोमनाथ पर हमला किया, तो उन्हें लगा कि उनकी तलवारें शाश्वत सोमनाथ पर विजय प्राप्त कर रही हैं, लेकिन वे कट्टरपंथी यह समझने में विफल रहे कि ‘सोम’ नाम में ही अमृत का सार निहित है, विष ग्रहण करने के बाद भी अमर रहने का विचार। उन्होंने आगे कहा कि सोमनाथ में सदाशिव महादेव की चेतन शक्ति निवास करती है, जो दयालु और उग्र ‘प्रचंड तांडव शिव’ दोनों हैं।”

उनके भाषण का मतलब बहुत साफ़  था की सोमनाथ मंदिर के सब रक्षक हिन्दू थे और विध्वंसक मुसलमान।

[‘PM addresses the Somnath Swabhiman Parv in Somnath, Gujarat’, 11 Jan, 2026, https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-addresses-the-somnath-swabhiman-parv-in-somnath-gujarat/?comment=disable]

आरएसएस-भाजपा सरकार के वरिष्ठतम सुरक्षा सलाहकार और प्रधानमंत्री मोदी के करीबी अजीत डोभाल ने मुस्लिम शासकों के धार्मिक अपराधों का बदला लेने के लिए अपने जोशीले अंदाज में 9 जनवरी, 2026 को दिल्ली में आयोजित ‘विकसित भारत युवा नेता संवाद’ के उद्घाटन समारोह में बोलते हुए कहा, "यह स्वतंत्र भारत हमेशा इतना स्वतंत्र नहीं था जितना अब दिखता है। हमारे पूर्वजों ने इसके लिए महान बलिदान दिए। उन्होंने घोर अपमान सहा और घोर असहायता के दौर का सामना किया। कई लोगों को फांसी की सज़ा दी गई... हमारे गांवों को जलाया गया। हमारी सभ्यता को नष्ट कर दिया गया। हमारे मंदिरों को लूटा गया और हम मूक दर्शक बनकर बेबस देखते रहे। यह इतिहास हमें एक चुनौती देता है कि आज भारत के हर युवा के भीतर बदला लेने की आग होनी चाहिए। 'बदला' शब्द आदर्श नहीं है, लेकिन बदला अपने आप में एक शक्तिशाली शक्ति है। हमें अपने इतिहास का बदला लेना होगा। हमें इस देश को उस मुकाम पर वापस लाना होगा जहां हम अपने अधिकारों, अपने विचारों और अपनी मान्यताओं के आधार पर एक महान भारत का निर्माण कर सकें।"

[‘NSA Ajit Doval urges youth to learn from history, rebuild a strong India’ 10 Jan-2026, https://firstindia.co.in/news/delhi/nsa-ajit-doval-urges-youth-to-learn-from-history-rebuild-a-strong-india]

सोमनाथ मंदिर के विध्वंस  का ग़ैर-इस्लामी सच

प्रधान मंत्री मोदी और डोभाल दोनों के भाषणों का सार यह था कि मुसलमानों ने हिंदू मंदिरों को नष्ट किया। इसका बदला भारतीय मुसलमानों से लिया जाना चाहिए, जो अनिवार्य रूप से मुस्लिम शासकों की संतान हैं। ये आह्वान भारत के सबसे बड़े धार्मिक अल्पसंख्यक को खुलेआम बदनाम करने के अलावा और कुछ नहीं थे। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी और राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार प्रमुख वास्तव में मुसलमानों के सफ़ाए का भी आह्वान कर रहे थे।

भारत में मंदिरों का विध्वंस हिन्दू-मुसलमान दुश्मनी से कहें ज़्यादा जटिल मामला रहा है जैसे कि हम निम्नलिखित 'हिंदू' वृत्तांतों में देखेंगे।

कोई भी समझदार व्यक्ति इस बात से इनकार नहीं कर सकता कि गुजरात के सोमनाथ मंदिर को 1026 में महमूद गाज़ी (महमूद ग़ज़नवी) के नेतृत्व वाली सेना द्वारा अपवित्र किया गया, लूटा गया और ध्वस्त कर दिया गया था। लेकिन एक महत्वपूर्ण तथ्य लगातार छुपाया जाता है कि यह स्थानीय हिंदू सरदारों की सक्रिय सहायता और भागीदारी से किया गया था। आरएसएस के सबसे प्रमुख विचारक एमएस गोलवलकर ने आरएसएस के अंग्रेज़ी मुखपत्र, ऑर्गेनाइज़र (4 जनवरी, 1950) में महमूद ग़ाज़ी द्वारा सोमनाथ मंदिर के अपवित्रीकरण और विनाश का विवरण देते हुए बताया:

“उसने ख़ैबर दर्रा पार किया और सोमनाथ की दौलत लूटने के लिए भारत में क़दम रखा। उसे राजस्थान के विशाल रेगिस्तान को पार करना पड़ा। एक समय ऐसा भी आया जब उसके पास न तो भोजन था, न उसकी सेना के लिए पानी, और न ही खुद उसके लिए। अगर उसे उसके हाल पर छोड़ दिया जाता, तो वह मर जाता… लेकिन नहीं, महमूद ग़ाज़ी ने स्थानीय सरदारों को यह विश्वास दिलाया कि सौराष्ट्र उनके खिलाफ विस्तारवादी योजनाएँ बना रहा है। अपनी मूर्खता और संकीर्ण सोच में उन्होंने उसकी बात मान ली और उसका साथ दिया। जब महमूद ग़ाज़ी ने महान मंदिर पर आक्रमण किया, तो हिंदू, जो हमारे खून के लहू, हमारे मांस के मांस, हमारी आत्मा की आत्मा हैं, उसकी सेना के अग्रिम मोर्चे पर खड़े थे। हिंदुओं की सक्रिय सहायता से सोमनाथ को अपवित्र किया गया। ये इतिहास के तथ्य हैं।”

[Organizer, January 4, 1950.]

सोमनाथ मंदिर के रक्षकों द्वारा ‘मूर्ति-भंजक’ ग़ज़नी के विरुद्ध किए गए ‘शौर्य’ का उल्लेख करते हुए आर्य समाज के संस्थापक स्वामी दयानंद सरस्वती ने अपने मौलिक ग्रंथ सत्यार्थ प्रकाश में, जो आर्य समाजियों के लिए एक पवित्र ग्रंथ है, लिखा है कि मूर्ति-भंजक सेना का विरोध करने के बजाय, तत्कालीन पुरोहितों ने प्रार्थना की: “हे महादेव, इस म्लेच्छ (विधर्मी) को मार डालो और हमारी रक्षा करो! उन्होंने अपने शाही अनुयायियों को धैर्य रखने की सलाह दी क्योंकि महादेव भैरव या भद्र को भेजेंगे जो सभी म्लेच्छों को मार डालेंगे या उन्हें अंधा कर देंगे… कई धर्मनिष्ठ ज्योतिषियों ने कहा कि ज्योतिषीय दृष्टि से उनका आगे बढ़ना उचित नहीं है… इस प्रकार योद्धा गुमराह हो गए और विलंबित हो गए। विधर्मियों की सेना शीघ्र ही आई और उन्हें घेर लिया। वे अपमानित होकर भाग गए।”

[Swami Dayananda Sarswati, Light of Truth (English translation of Satyarth Prakash), Dayanand Sansthan, Delhi, 1908, p. 328.]

प्रधानमंत्री,  अजीत डोभाल और हिंदुत्ववादी गुट को मुसलमानों से बदला लेने की बजाय सोमनाथ मंदिर के अपमान के लिए ज़िम्मेदार दोषियों के बारे में गंभीरता से आत्म निरीक्षण करने की आवश्यकता है। यह सर्वमान्य है कि महमूद ने 1000 ईस्वी से 1027 ईस्वी के बीच सत्रह बार भारत में आक्रमण किया। उसने ग़ज़नी से सोमनाथ मंदिर तक पहुंचने के लिए 1025 में लगभग 2000 किलोमीटर की यात्रा की, जिसमें से लगभग 1000 किलोमीटर का क्षेत्र भारत में आता था । हिंदू कथानक  के अनुसार, मंदिर को नष्ट करने के बाद वह सैकड़ों ऊंटों और घोड़ों पर लादकर भारी मात्रा में कीमती लूट का माल लेकर वापस लौट गया। सोमनाथ में वीरता की कहानियां सुनाने वालों को देश को यह बताना  चाहिए कि उसको ज़िंदा किस ने जाने दिया? भारत के सबसे पवित्र मंदिरों में से एक को नष्ट करने के बावजूद उसे और उसके लुटेरों के गिरोह को क्यों नहीं मारा गया? भयावह सच्चाई यह है कि हमारे पूर्वज भारतीय इतिहास के सबसे क्रूर आक्रमणकारियों में से एक का प्रतिरोध करने में बुरी तरह विफल रहे।

‘हिंदुओं’ द्वारा बौद्ध और जैन मंदिरों का विध्वंस

केवल मुस्लिम शासक ही हिंदू मंदिरों को अपवित्र नहीं कर रहे थे। स्वामी विवेकानंद ने कहा था, “जगन्नाथ मंदिर एक प्राचीन बौद्ध मंदिर है। हमने इसे और अन्य मंदिरों को अपने अधिकार में लेकर उनका हिंदू धर्म में पुनर्रूपण किया। हमें अभी ऐसे कई कार्य करने बाकी हैं।”

[The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, vol. 3, 264.]

 

हिंदुत्व के एक अन्य प्रिय दार्शनिक बंकिम चंद्र चटर्जी ने भी इसकी पुष्टि की है। उनके अनुसार, जगन्नाथ मंदिर से जुड़े अनुष्ठानों का अभिन्न अंग रथ यात्रा मूल रूप से एक बौद्ध अनुष्ठान था। बंकिम चंद्र चटर्जी ने लिखा:

"मुझे ज्ञात है कि जनरल कनिंघम ने भीलसा टोपियों पर अपने ग्रंथ में [जगन्नाथ मंदिर में] रथ उत्सव की उत्पत्ति का एक और, और काफी तर्कसंगत, विवरण दिया है। वे इसे बौद्धों के एक समान उत्सव से जोड़ते हैं, जिसमें बौद्ध धर्म के तीन प्रतीक, बुद्ध, धर्म और संघ, को रथ में उसी प्रकार से ले जाया जाता था, और मेरा मानना ​​है कि लगभग उसी मौसम में जब रथ यात्रा होती है। यह तथ्य इस सिद्धांत का प्रबल समर्थन करता है कि जगन्नाथ, बलराम और सुभद्रा की मूर्तियाँ, जो अब रथ में दिखाई देती हैं, बुद्ध, धर्म और संघ के चित्रण की लगभग प्रतिकृतियाँ हैं, और ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि उन्हें उन्हीं के आधार पर बनाया गया था।"

[Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra, 'On the origin of Hindu festivals' in Essays & Letters, Rupa, Delhi, 2010, pp. 8-9.]

बौद्ध शासकों का ब्राह्मणों द्वारा धीरे-धीरे तख़्ता-पलट के बाद बौद्ध मठों का हिंदू मंदिरों में रूपांतरण एक आम बात हो गई थी। यह प्रक्रिया तब शुरू हुई जब मौर्य वंश के अंतिम बौद्ध राजा (जिनमें अशोक भी शामिल थे) बृहद्रथ की हत्या 184 ईसा पूर्व में एक ब्राह्मण पुष्यमित्र शुंग ने कर दी, जिससे एक प्रसिद्ध बौद्ध वंश का अंत हुआ और ब्राह्मण शुंग वंश की स्थापना हुई। बंकिम ने अपने विवादास्पद उपन्यास 'आनंदमठ', जो हिंदू राष्ट्रवाद की बाइबिल है, में इसकी पुष्टि की है। उन्होंने हिंदू सेना (संतान सेना) द्वारा इस्तेमाल किए जा रहे एक मंदिर के दृश्य का वर्णन इन शब्दों में किया है:

"इस जंगल के भीतर, चारों ओर टूटे हुए पत्थरों से घिरी एक विशाल भूमि पर एक बड़ा मठ स्थित था। पुरातत्वविद शायद कहेंगे कि यह पुराने समय में एक बौद्ध मठ था और बाद में इसे हिंदू मठ में परिवर्तित कर दिया गया।"

[Sen-Gupta, Nares Chandra (translator Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath), Abbey of Bliss, Padmini Mohan Neogi, Calcutta, nd, p. 16]

जैन धर्म के कई मंदिरों का भी ऐसा ही दुखद अंत हुआ। हिंदुत्व के पैग़मबर माने जाने वाले स्वामी दयानंद सरस्वती ने अपने ग्रंथ ‘सत्यार्थ प्रकाश’ में आदि शंकराचार्य (आठवीं शताब्दी) के इस योगदान का वर्णन करते हुए लिखा:

“उन्होंने दस वर्षों तक पूरे देश का भ्रमण किया, जैन धर्म का खंडन किया और वैदिक धर्म का प्रचार किया। आज धरती से खोदी गई सभी टूटी हुई मूर्तियाँ शंकराचार्य के समय में ही टूटी थीं, जबकि जो मूर्तियाँ यहाँ-वहाँ साबुत (अखंड) पाई जाती हैं, उन्हें जैनियों ने टूटने के डर से दफना दिया था।”

[Swami Dayananda Sarswati, Light of Truth (English translation of Satyarth Prakash), Daya nand Sansthan, Delhi, 1908, p. 294.]

हिंदुओं के विरुद्ध मराठा ‘हिंदू’ सेनाओं के अपराध

प्रसिद्ध इतिहासकार सर जदुनाथ सरकार (1870-1958) किसी भी तरह से मुसलमान शासकों से हमदर्दी नहीं रखते थे।। वास्तव में, उन्हें एक हिंदू इतिहासकार, भारत के इतिहास के हिंदू दृष्टिकोण के कथाकार के रूप में माना जाता है। 1740 के दशक के आरंभ में बंगाल पर मराठा आक्रमण के उनके वर्णन से यह स्पष्ट होता है कि ‘हिंदू राष्ट्र’ की इस सेना को बंगाल के हिंदुओं के मान-सम्मान और संपत्ति की कोई परवाह नहीं थी। सरकार के अनुसार, “भटकते मराठा गिरोहों ने अंधाधुंध विनाश और अकल्पनीय अत्याचार किए।”

[Jadunath Sarkar (ed.), The History of Bengal-Volume II Muslim Period 1200 A.D.–1757 A.D. (Delhi: BR Publishing, 2003), (first edition 1948), p. 457.]

जदुनाथ सरकार ने बंगाल के इतिहास पर अपने एक महत्वपूर्ण ग्रंथ में मराठों के हाथों बंगाली हिंदुओं पर हुए अत्याचारों के प्रत्यक्षदर्शी वृत्तांतों को पुन: प्रस्तुत किया। ऐसे ही एक प्रत्यक्षदर्शी, गंगाराम के अनुसार,

“मराठों ने सोना और चांदी छीन लिया, बाकी सब कुछ ठुकरा दिया। कुछ लोगों के हाथ काट दिए, कुछ की नाक और कान; कुछ को तो सीधे ही मार डाला। वे सुंदर स्त्रियों को घसीटकर ले गए और बलात्कार करने के बाद ही उन्हें मुक्त किया।”

[Jadunath Sarkar (ed.), The History of Bengal-Volume II Muslim Period 1200 A.D.–1757 A.D. (Delhi: BR Publishing, 2003), (first edition 1948), 457.]

एक अन्य प्रत्यक्षदर्शी, बरदवान के महाराजा के दरबारी पंडित वनेश्वर विद्यालंकार ने मराठों द्वारा हिंदुओं पर किए गए अत्याचारों की भयावह गाथा को इन शब्दों में बयान किया:

“शाहू राजा की सेना दयाहीन है, गर्भवती महिलाओं और शिशुओं, ब्राह्मणों और गरीबों की हत्यारी है, क्रूर स्वभाव की है, सबकी संपत्ति लूटने और हर प्रकार के पाप करने में माहिर है।” [वही, पृष्ठ 458]

एक और महत्वपूर्ण तथ्य, जो जानबूझकर छिपा कर रखा गया है, वह यह है कि  1000 से अधिक वर्षों के 'मुसलमान'/मुगल शासन के बावजूद, जो हिंदुत्ववादी इतिहासकारों के अनुसार हिंदुओं को नष्ट करने या उन्हें जबरन इस्लाम धर्म क़बूलने की एक परियोजना के अलावा और कुछ नहीं था; भारत हिंदुओं के लगभग 2/3 बहुमत वाला राष्ट्र बना रहा। ब्रिटिश शासकों ने धर्म के आधार पर प्रथम जनगणना सन 1871-72 में कराई जब औपचारिक 'मुसलमान' शासन भी समाप्त हो गया था। इस जनगणना रिपोर्ट के अनुसार:

“ब्रिटिश भारत की जनसंख्या, पूर्णांक संख्या में, 140½ मिलियन हिंदुओं (सिखों सहित), या 73½ प्रतिशत; 40¾ मिलियन मुसलमानों, या 21½ प्रतिशत में और 9¼ मिलियन अन्य या बमुश्किल 5 प्रतिशत, जिनमें इस शीर्षक के तहत बौद्ध और जैन, ईसाई, यहूदी, पारसी, ब्रह्मोस शामिल हैं…”

[Memorandum on the Census of British India of 1871-72: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Her Majesty's Stationary Office 1875, 16.]

ऐसा इसलिए हुआ क्योंकि कुछ अपवादों को छोड़कर हिंदू उच्च जातियों ने सैकड़ों वर्षों तक मुस्लिम शासकों की सेवा करने का निर्णय लिया, जिसे रोटी-बेटी का संबंध कहा जाता था। पूर्व-आधुनिक भारत में मुस्लिम नामों वाले शासकों द्वारा किए गए अपराधों को उनके धर्म से जोड़ना, आरएसएस द्वारा वर्णित 'हिंदू' इतिहास के लिए भी गंभीर और अकल्पनीय परिणाम उत्पन्न करने वाला है। उदाहरण के लिए, लंका के राजा रावण को ही लें, जिसने 'हिंदू' कथानक के अनुसार सीता, उनके पति भगवान राम और उनके साथियों के विरुद्ध 14 वर्षों के वनवास के दौरान अकल्पनीय अपराध किए थे। इसी कथा के अनुसार, यह रावण एक विद्वान ब्राह्मण था और भगवान शिव के सबसे बड़े उपासकों में से एक था।

महाभारत महाकाव्य दो परिवारों, पांडवों और कौरवों (दोनों क्षत्रिय) के बीच हुए एक महान युद्ध की कहानी है, जो हिंदुओं और मुसलमानों के बीच नहीं, बल्कि दो 'हिंदू' सेनाओं के बीच हुआ था। 'हिंदू' संस्करण के अनुसार, इस युद्ध में 12 करोड़ (22 करोड़) लोगों का नरसंहार हुआ था। पांडवों की साझी पत्नी द्रौपदी को कौरवों ने निर्वस्त्र कर दिया था, जो सभी हिंदू थे। मोदी और डोभवाल को यह बात भलीभांति समझनी चाहिए कि यदि रावण और कौरवों के अपराधों को उनके धर्म से जोड़ा गया तो भारत अपनी 80% आबादी, तमाम हिंदुओं को खो देगा। और यदि अतीत के अपराधियों के वर्तमान वंशजों से बदला लेना है तो इसकी शुरुआत भारतीय सभ्यता की शुरुआत से ही करनी होगी; भारतीय मुसलमानों की बारी तो बहुत बाद में आएगी!

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19-01-2026

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‘Hindu’ Narratives of Desecration of Somnath, Buddhist and Jain Temples in India

‘Hindu’ Narratives of Desecration of Somnath, Buddhist and Jain Temples in India

According to the present RSS-BJP rulers of India, Indian Muslims are the villains of history. Categorized as Babar zade (children of first Mughal emperor of Hindustan), they are held responsible for all the crimes committed by rulers with Muslim names beginning from the capture of Sindh by Mohamnmad bin Qasim, an Arab military rogue in 711 AD. We are told that Muslim rule was Islamic rule which aimed at cleansing Hindustan of idolatry, Hindu religion. This theme continues to recur in the utterances of RSS-trained PM of India, Modi and members of   his ruling elite who also happen to be members of RSS.

The latest outburst was on January 11, 2026, when inaugurating the Swabhiman Parv (self-respect event) in Somnath, he declared that “every particle of the soil of Prabhas Patan is a witness to valor, courage, and heroism, and that countless devotees of Shiva sacrificed their lives for the preservation of Somnath’s form. He said that on the occasion of Somnath Swabhiman Parv, he bows first to every brave man and woman who dedicated their lives to the protection and reconstruction of Somnath, offering everything to Lord Mahadeva.”

Shri Modi further stated that “when invaders from Ghazni to Aurangzeb attacked Somnath, they believed their swords were conquering eternal Somnath, but those fanatics failed to understand that the very name ‘Som’ carries the essence of nectar, the idea of remaining immortal even after consuming poison. He added that within Somnath resides the conscious power of Sadashiva Mahadev, who is both benevolent and the fierce ‘Prachanda Tandava Shiva’.”

[‘PM addresses the Somnath Swabhiman Parv in Somnath, Gujarat’, 11 Jan, 2026, https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-addresses-the-somnath-swabhiman-parv-in-somnath-gujarat/?comment=disable]

The senior most security advisor of the RSS-BJP government and close confidant of PM Modi, Ajit Doval was at his best seeking revenge for the religious crimes of Muslim rulers.  Speaking at the opening ceremony of Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue, at Delhi on January 9, 2026, Doval said, "This independent India wasn't always as free as it appears now. Our ancestors made great sacrifices for it. They endured great humiliation and experienced periods of profound helplessness. Many people faced the gallows... Our villages were burned. Our civilisation was destroyed. Our temples were looted, and we watched helplessly as silent spectators. This history presents us with a challenge that every young person in India today should have the fire within them. The word 'revenge' isn't ideal, but revenge itself is a powerful force. We have to take revenge for our history. We have to take this country back to where we can build a great India based on our rights, our ideas, and our beliefs."

[‘NSA Ajit Doval urges youth to learn from history, rebuild a strong India’ 10 Jan-2026, https://firstindia.co.in/news/delhi/nsa-ajit-doval-urges-youth-to-learn-from-history-rebuild-a-strong-india]

The gist of the speeches of both Modi and Doval was that Muslims destroyed Hindu temples. The revenge has to be taken from Indian Muslims who are necessarily children of the Muslim rulers. These calls were nothing but brazen demonizing the largest religious minority of India. PM Modi and NSA chief, in fact, were dog-whistling for cleansing of Muslims. However, we need to compare the above-mentioned claims with the ‘Hindu’ narratives of destruction of Somnath Temple.

  No sane person can deny that Somnath Temple in Gujarat was desecrated, looted and razed by an army led by Mahmud Ghazi (Mahmud Ghaznavi) in 1026. But a crucial fact remains buried that it was done with the active help and participation of local Hindu chieftains. The most prominent ideologue of RSS, MS Golwalkar while referring to the desecration and destruction of Somnath Temple by Mahmud Ghazi in the RSS English organ, Organizer (January 4, 1950) stated:

“He crossed the Khyber Pass and set foot in Bharat to plunder the wealth of Somnath. He had to cross the great desert of Rajasthan. There was a time when he had no food, and no water for his army, and even for himself left to his fate, he would have perished…But no, Mahmud Ghazi made the local chieftains to believe that Saurashtra had expansionist designs against them. In their folly and pettiness they believed him. And they joined him. When Mahmud Ghazi launched his assault on the great temple, it was the Hindu, blood of our blood, flesh of our flesh, soul of our soul-who stood in the vanguard of his army. Somnath was desecrated with the active help of the Hindus. These are facts of history.”

[Organizer, January 4, 1950.]

So far as valour of defenders of Somnath Temple against ‘idol-breaker’ Ghazni was concerned founder of Arya Samaj, Swami Dayananda Sarswati in his fundamental work, Satyarth Prakash, a Bible for Arya Samajists, stated that instead of resisting the army of defilers, the then priests, “made offering, called on gods and prayed: ‘O Mahadeva kill this infidel and protect us!’ They advised their royal followers to have patience as Mahadeva would send Bhairava or Bhadra who  would kill all the infidels (mlechhas) or blinden them…Many popish astrologers said that it was not astrologically proper for their advance…Thus the warriors were misled and delayed.  The army of infidels soon came and surrounded them. They fled in disgrace.”  [Swami Dayananda Sarswati, Light of Truth (English translation of Satyarth Prakash), Dayanand Sansthan, Delhi, 1908, p. 328.]

PM, Ajit Doval and Hindutva tribe instead of calling for revenge against Muslims need to do a serious introspection about the guilty-men responsible for  desecration of Somnath Temple. It is generally accepted that Mahmud entered India as aggressor seventeen times between 1000 AD and 1027 AD. He travelled approximately 2000 kilometers from Ghazni to reach Somnath Temple in 1025, covering almost 1000 kilometers in the region which fell in India. According to ‘Hindu’ narrative after destroying the Temple he travelled back with huge precious booty laden on hundreds of camels and horses. Those who are telling stories of valour at Somnath need to tell the nation: Who allowed his journey back? Why were he and his gang of robbers not liquidated despite destroying one of the holiest temples of India? The horrendous reality is that our ancestors miserably failed in resisting one of the meanest aggressors in Indian history.  

Desecration of Buddhist and Jain Temples by ‘Hindus’

These were not ‘Muslim’ rulers only who were defiling Hindu temples. Swami Vivekananda shared the fact that, “Temple of Jagannath is an old Buddhistic temple. We took this and others over and re-Hinduised them. We shall have to do many things like that yet”.

[The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, vol. 3, 264.]

 

It has been corroborated by another darling of the Hindutva fraternity, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. According to him RATH YATRA, an integral part of the rituals connected with Jagganath Temple was originally a Buddhist ritual. Bankim Chndra Chatterjee wrote:

"I am aware that another and a very reasonable, account of the origin of the festival of Rath [at Jagganath Temple] has been given by General Cunningham in his work on the Bhilsa Topes. He there traces it to a similar festival of the Buddhists, in which the three symbols of the Buddhist faith, Buddha, Dharmma, and Sangha, were drawn in a car in the same fashion, and I believe about the same season as the Rath. It is a fact greatly in support of the theory, that the images of Jagannath, Balaram, and Subhadra, which now figure in the Rath, are near copies of the representations of Buddha, Dharmma, and Sangha, and appear to have been modelled upon them."

[Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra, 'On the origin of Hindu festivals' in Essays & Letters, Rupa, Delhi, 2010, pp. 8-9.]

Conversion of Buddhist monasteries into Hindu temples was a common occurrence after Buddhist rulers were gradually overthrown by Brahmins. This process began when the last of Maurya dynasty’s Buddhist king (Ashoka being one), Brihadratha was assassinated by Pushyamitra Shunga, a Brahmin in 184 BCE thus ending the rule of a renowned Buddhist dynasty and establishing the rule of Brahman Shunga dynasty. It was corroborated by Bankim in his controversial novel Anandmath, Bible of the Hindu nationalism. He described the scene of a temple used by Hindu army in the following words:

"Within this wood there stood a large monastery on a large piece of land with broken stones all around. Antiquarians would perhaps say that it was a Buddhist monastery in old days and was subsequently converted into a Hindu one."

[Sen-Gupta, Nares Chandra (translator Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath), Abbey of Bliss, Padmini Mohan Neogi, Calcutta, nd, 16]

Many of Jain temples too met the same tragic fate. Swami Dayanand Saraswati regarded as a Prophet of Hindutva while dealing with the contribution of Adi Shankaracharya (8^TH CENTURY) in his tome, Satyarth Prakash wrote:

“For ten years he toured all over the country, refuted Jainism and advocated the Vedic religion. All the broken images that are now-a-days dug out of the earth were broken in the time of Shankar, whilst those that are found whole (unbroken) here and there under the ground had been buried by the Jainis for fear of their being broken.”

[Swami Dayananda Sarswati, Light of Truth (English translation of Satyarth Prakash), Dayanand Sansthan, Delhi, 1908, p. 294.]

Crimes of Maratha ‘Hindu’ armies against Hindus

Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958), a renowned historian, held no brief for Islam or Muslim rulers in India. In fact, he is regarded as a Hindu historian, narrator of the history of India from a Hindu point of view. His description of the Maratha invasion of Bengal in early 1740s, makes it clear that this army of ‘Hindu nation’ cared least about honour and property of Hindus of Bengal. According to Sarkar, “the roving Maratha bands committed wanton destruction and unspeakable outrage”.

[Jadunath Sarkar (ed.), The History of Bengal-Volume II Muslim Period 1200 A.D.–1757 A.D. (Delhi: BR Publishing, 2003), (first edition 1948), p. 457.]

 

Sarkar, in his monumental work on the history of Bengal, reproduced eyewitness accounts of the sufferings of Bengali Hindus at the hands of Marathas. According to one such eyewitness, Gangaram,

“The Marathas snatched away gold and silver, rejecting everything else. Of some people they cut off the hands, of some the nose and ear; some they killed outright. They dragged away the beautiful women and freed them only after raping them”.

[Jadunath Sarkar (ed.), The History of Bengal-Volume II Muslim Period 1200 A.D.–1757 A.D. (Delhi: BR Publishing, 2003), (first edition 1948), 457.]

Another eyewitness, Vaneshwar Vidyalankar, the court Pandit of the Maharaja of Bardwan, narrated the horrifying tales of atrocities committed by the Marathas against Hindus in the following words:

“Shahu Raja’s troops are niggard of pity, slayers of pregnant women and infants, of Brahmans and the poor, fierce of spirit, expert in robbing the property of everyone and committing every kind of sinful act.” [Ibid., 458.]

Another crucial fact which is consciously kept under wrap is that despite more than 500 hundred years of ‘Muslim’/Mughal rule which according to Hindutva historians was nothing but a project of annihilating Hindus or forcibly converting the latter to Islam, India remained a nation with an almost 2/3 majority of Hindus at the historical juncture when even ceremonial ‘Muslim’ rule was over. The British rulers held first census in 1871-72. According to the Census report:

“The population of British India is, in round numbers, divided into 140½ millions [sic] of Hindoos (including Sikhs), or 73½ per cent., 40¾ millions of Mahomedans, or 21½ per cent. And 9¼ millions of others, or barely 5 per cent., including under this title Buddhists and Jains, Christians, Jews, Parsees, Brahmoes…”

This happened because Hindu high Castes with few exceptions decided to serve the Muslim rulers for hundreds of years which is known as a relationship of roti-beti (bread and daughter).

[Memorandum on the Census of British India of 1871-72: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Her Majesty's Stationary Office 1875, 16.]

The linking of crimes committed by rulers with Muslim names in the pre-modern India to their religion is going to create serious unthinkable consequences even for ‘Hindu’ history as narrated by the RSS. Take for example, Ravana, the king of Lanka who according to again ‘Hindu’ narrative committed unspeakable crimes against Sita, her husband Lord Rama and his companions for 14 years long vanvaas or exile. This Ravana, according to the same narrative, was a learned Brahman who also happened to be one of the greatest worshippers of Lord Shiva.

The epic Mahabharata is a story of a great war between two families known as Pandavas and Kauravas (both Kashtriyas) not between Hindus and Muslims but between two ‘Hindu’ armies in which, if you go by the ‘Hindu’ version 1.2 billion (120 crore) people, all Hindus are stated to have been slaughtered. Draupadi joint wife of Pandavas was disrobed by Kauravas, all Hindus. Modi and Doval must be aware that if the crimes of Ravana and Kauravas, are linked to their religion then India country will lose 80% of the population. And if revenge is to be taken from the present descendants of the past perpetrators then beginning must be made from the beginning of the Indian civilization; turn of the Indian Muslims will come far later!

 

Shamsul Islam

19-01-2026

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33rd Anniversary of Babri Mosque Demolition: When Indian State & Supreme Court shamelessly succumbed to Hindutva lies

 

33rd Anniversary of Babri Mosque Demolition: When Indian State & Supreme Court shamelessly succumbed to Hindutva lies

Friends in India and abroad wished to have a compilation of documentary evidence of how Indian State and Supreme Court facilitated the Hindutva project of obliterating a historic mosque at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The following description examines the Hindutva lies with irrefutable facts which were shamelessly overlooked by the rulers and highest judiciary of India.

Lie 1: Babri mosque built after destroying Ram birthplace temple

The Hindutva gang claimed that the new Ram temple was built on an ancient site of Hindu worship; the Ram birthplace temple which was destroyed in the early 16th century (1528-29) during the reign of the first Mughal emperor, Babar by one of his commanders, Mir Baqi. Archaeological evidence proves the mosque had no foundations of its own and was built upon a Hindu temple. They even identified the exact place of birth of Ram; under the central dome (approximately measuring 150 cm x 150 cm) of the Babri Mosque.

This lie has been repeated by PM Modi many times since 2014 when he took over as PM of India, latest being at Ayodhya on November 25, 2025, when he stated: “The wounds of centuries are healing, the pain of centuries is finding an end today, the resolution of centuries is achieving success today. Today marks the final offering of a yajna whose fire burned for 500 years.”

[PM’s speech during the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir Dhwajarohan Utsav, November 25, 2025, https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pms-speech-during-the-shri-ram-janmabhoomi-mandir-dhwajarohan-utsav/]

Truth 1: This is a brazen lie propagated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with no historical or legal proof, nor any corroboration even in the ‘Hindu’ narratives of history. There is no mention of the destruction of Ram Temple even in the writings of the most prominent Ram worshiper to date, Goswami Tulsidas (1511-1623), who penned the Epic Ramcharitmanas (Lake of the Deeds of Ram) in the Avadhi language in 1575-76. It was this work which made Ram the most popular God in Northern India. According to the Hindutva version, Ram’s birthplace temple was destroyed during 1528-1529. It would be surprising indeed if the Ramcharitmanas, written almost 48 years after the so-called destruction of Ram’s birthplace temple, did not mention such a momentous event. Does Hindutva gang mean to argue that Goswami Tulsidas was a coward!

For RSS, Aurobindo Ghosh, Swami Vivekananda, and Swami Dayanand Saraswati were the saints who contributed immensely to the cause of Vedic religion and the growth of the Hindu nation. None of these Vedic saints ever referred to this destruction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya by Mughal King Babar or his agents in any of their writings. 

Today, Ayodhya is referred to as one of the oldest holiest places for Hindus. It would be interesting to know that Adi Shankaracharya (788-820), who toured India preaching Vedas and refuting Buddhism and Jainism for more than a decade, established 5 Peetams [main centers] at Badrinath in the North, Puri in the East, Dwarka in the West and Sringeri and Kanchi in the South for the revival of the Vedic religion but did not consider Ayodhya as one. 

It is true that traditionally, Hindus believe that Ram was born in the city of Ayodhya, but the issue is whether he was born exactly under the central dome (approximately measuring 150 cm x 150 cm) of the Babri Mosque as is claimed now by Hindutva’s flag-bearers. 

Moreover, the Indian Supreme Court, in its 1,045-page Ayodhya Judgment (November 9, 2019), nowhere in the Judgment agreed with the claim that the Babri Mosque was constructed after destroying any temple.

Indian Supreme Court, in the said judgment made two other observations demolishing the RSS claim on the Mosque. Firstly, it stated: “The exclusion of the Muslims from worship and possession took place on the intervening night between 22/23 December 1949 when the mosque was desecrated by the installation of Hindu idols. The ouster of the Muslims on that occasion was not through any lawful authority but through an act which was calculated to deprive them of their place of worship.” [Supreme Court Judgment dated November 9, 2019, pp. 921-22] 

Secondly, on pages 913-14, it stated that “On 6 December 1992, the structure of the mosque was brought down and the mosque was destroyed. The destruction of the mosque took place in breach of the order of status quo and an assurance given to this Court. The destruction of the mosque and the obliteration of the Islamic structure was an egregious violation of the rule of law.”

However, Mother India must be aghast to find Indian Supreme Court, despite all the above findings, selling itself to the criminal Hindutva project of destroying a historic building which was a protected monument under Article 49 of Indian Constitution. In fact, what Hindutva criminals could not achieve on December 6, 1992, Supreme Court of India got them on November 9, 2019. 

It is worth mentioning here that RSS—which initiated the bloody, violent campaign to build the Ram Temple at the end of the 1980s, never advanced this demand during the period of its founding (1925) to the day of Independence. Even after Independence, it was only in 1989 that the political appendage of the RSS, the BJP, began to focus on this issue. 

The views of two RSS luminaries who initiated the Ram Temple movement reveal the preposterousness of the claim that Ram himself was born under the dome. 

Rama Vilas Vedanti, a prominent Hindu clergyman of the Ram Birthplace Trust (an RSS front), stated, “We will build a temple at Ramjanam Bhoomi even if Lord Rama says he was not born there” [Outlook, Delhi, 7 July 2003). Similarly, L. K. Advani, who rode a chariot (Rath Yatra) as part of an aggressive Ram Temple campaign in 1990 said, “It did not matter whether the historical Rama was actually born at the spot in Ayodhya. What mattered was that Hindus believed that he was born there. Faith took precedence over history” [The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 20 July 2003.]

Lie 2: Ram Temple at the site of the Babri Mosque was essential to seek ‘restorative justice’

 According to RSS the Ram Mandir has great symbolic and emotional resonance for Hindus in contemporary times and that the trauma that this destruction brought has been passed down through generations and continues to impact the psyche of Hindus and contributed historically and continues to contribute to Hindu-Muslim tensions in India to this day.

Truth 2: According to this logic, the rule by rulers with Muslim names in India was the Islamic rule of idol-breakers. This narrative of Muslim history developed only at the beginning of the 19^th century is in absolute contradiction with historical facts and even common sense. To understand the lies behind this fabricated Medieval past, one needs to examine the nature of this ‘Muslim’ rule. 

Despite the ‘Muslim’ rule of almost one thousand years, approximately 75% of Indians did not convert to Islam, as was made clear by the first Census held by the British in 1871-72 when even ceremonial ‘Muslim’ rule was over. Hindus and Sikhs constituted 73.5 percent of the population, and Muslims numbered 21.5 percent only. [Memorandum on the Census Of British India of 1871-72: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Her Majesty's Stationary Office 1875, 16.]

In fact, this rule was also the rule of the Hindu High Castes. According to contemporary ‘Hindu’ narratives, Aurangzeb never faced Shivaji in the battlefield; these were his two Rajput commanders, Jay Singh I and Jai Singh II, who fought against Shivaji on Aurangzeb’s behalf. Akbar personally never fought any battle against Rana Pratap of Mewar; Man Singh, brother-in-law of Akbar fought all battles against Rana. The Deewan Ala (prime minister) of both Shahjahan and Aurangzeb was Raghunath Bahadur, a Kayasth Hindu. [‘Fallacy of the Hindutva project’ May 4, 2022, Chennai, link: https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/fallacy-of-the-hindutva-project-aurangzeb-mughals-islamophobia/article38484103.ece]

It is nobody’s argument that Aurangzeb or many other ‘Muslim’ rulers were not religious bigots or tolerant. Aurangzeb did not spare his father, brothers, and many smaller ‘Muslim’ kingdoms of his times. There are also contemporary records that prove that Aurangzeb donated lands, money, and resources to many temples throughout India. Anybody who has visited Delhi’s Red Fort must have seen two temples; Jain Lal Mandir [Red Temple] and Gauri Shanker Temple, just across the Red Fort towards Chandni Chowk side. These temples were built before the rule of Aurangzeb and continued to function during his time and later.

Lie 3: According to RSS building of the Ram Temple was an important event for Hindus of all traditions 

Truth 3: They did not explain to the Nation why 4 Shankaracharyas of the Peetams (out of 5) established by Adi Shankaracharya boycotted the inauguration of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya. The most revered living Hindu saints of the Sanatan Dharm declared Ayodhya’s inauguration to be in contravention of Vedic scriptures, calling it Hinduism done for petty electoral gains. 

It was sad to see RSS run roughshod over the diversity of Hinduism. In its attempt to prove the homogenous character of Hindus, it turned a debate on the nature of the Ayodhya inauguration into Hindus versus others. The founder of Arya Samaj, Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824-83), is glorified by RSS as a pillar of the Hindu nation. But Swami was an ardent opponent of the Brahmanical rituals like Pran Pratishtha, putting life into a lifeless idol (in Ayodhya case by Prime Minister Modi) and did not mince words in decrying this very ritual. He stated (in Satyarth Prakash or Light of Truth, chapter 11), “The fact of the matter is that the All-pervading Spirit [God] can neither come into an idol, nor, leave it. If your mantras are efficacious that you can summon God, why can you not infuse life into your dead son by the force of the very same mantras? Again why can you not bide the soul depart from the body of your enemy? There is not a single verse in the Vedas to sanction the invocation of the Deity and vitalization of the idol, likewise, there is nothing to indicate that it is right to invoke idols, to bathe them, install them in temples, and apply sandal paste to them.” 

Lie 4: According to the Hindutva narrative Ayodhya represents a five hundred years long war between Hindus and Muslims of India

Those who defend demolition of Babri mosque argue that though sometimes presented as being a recent conflict, the fact is that this site has a long history of Hindus and Sikhs attempting to reclaim it, dating back to the early 19th century. Furthermore, the conflict has been ongoing regardless of the political party in power following India’s independence.

Truth 4: Ayodhya is presented as a place of perennial war between Hindus and Muslims, and the central dome of the Babri Mosque claimed to be the exact place where Ram was born, are modern ‘constructs’ as we will see in the following.

There cannot be a shoddier lie than this that Ayodhya was a place of perpetual war between Hindus against Muslims. During India’s War of Independence 1857, Ayodhya was the place where Maulvis and Mahants and ordinary Hindus and Muslims stood united in rebelling against the British rule and kissed the hangman’s noose together. Maulana Ameer Ali was a famous Maulvi of Ayodhya, and when Ayodhya’s well-known Hanuman Garhi’s (Hanuman Temple) priest, Baba Ramcharan Das, took the lead in organizing the armed resistance to the British rule. Both of them were captured and hanged together on the same tree. In another instance of the glorious unity of Hindus and Muslims against the colonial rule at Ayodhya, Acchhan Khan and Shambhu Prasad Shukla led the army of Raja Devibaksh Singh in the area. Due to the treachery of Hindu and Muslim lackeys of the British, they were captured and killed together. The British rulers hated this unity and created narratives of perennial Hindu-Muslim conflict not only in Ayodhya but the whole of India.    

Iqbal a renowned poet much maligned by the Hindutva ideologues whose poetry has been removed from textbooks wrote a peerless poem in praise of Ram in 1908 titled “Imam-e-Hind”. For Iqbal, Ram was not merely a Hindu God but “Imam-e-Hind” (spiritual leader of India). The first two lines of the poem read: Hai Raam ke wajood pe Hindustaan ko naaz/
Ahl-e-Nazar samajhte hain us ko Imam-e-Hind
(India is proud of the existence of Ram
Spiritual people consider him prelate of India).

The flag-bearers of Hindutva working overtime to undo a composite and all-inclusive India are using the Sikh factor as a bluff to legitimize its illegal project. Sikhs who do not believe in idol worship of Ram or any other Hindu God/Goddesses; we are told that on 28 November 1858, a Nihang Sikh [member of a warrior order within Sikhism] organized Pooja [worship] and havan [a Brahmanical ritual offering of grains, pure ghee and other such items to fire] in the Babri Mosque. It is unbelievable for a Sikh to perform Brahmanical rituals and would invite immediate ex-communication. Why Hindus at that time did not enter the Mosque is a mystery!

Aggrieved Muslims chose legal recourse and not community mobilization, but judiciary betrayed.

Hindutva gang must understand that Ram was never the cause of perpetual conflict between Hindus and Muslims till RSS invented it as a convenient tool for religious polarization. Muslims of Ayodhya stopped going to Babri Mosque once the idol of Ram Lalla (child Ram) was smuggled into the Babri Mosque on the night of 22/23 December 1949 with the connivance of local senior officials. Local Muslims did not try to break into the usurped Mosque, and there was no bloodshed engineered by Muslims of Ayodhya who were in substantial numbers in Faizabad, now rechristened as Ayodhya Dham despite the Indian Supreme Court declaring that “the mosque was desecrated by the installation of Hindu idols.”

RSS and its affiliates instead of being ashamed of the carnage celebrate the demolition on December 6 as Shauriya Divas, day of bravery. The criminals succeeded since 1990, RSS and its appendages had organized an aggressive campaign for demolishing the Babri Mosque, targeting Indian Muslims as Baber-zade/Haram-zade (children of Babar/illegitimate children). For more than two years, Hindus in India and abroad were asked to come to Ayodhya to tear down the mosque as kar-sevaks. 

Babri mosque demolition was not Hindu-Muslim fight but RSS versus Indian state

Did Muslims call for counter-mobilization to save the mosque or reach the site on December 6 to confront the Hindutva goons? Never! In fact, they trusted the RSS to honor the commitment made to the then-Indian Prime Minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao and the Indian Supreme Court that its appendages and cadres would not harm the mosque. RSS reneged on all commitments shamelessly. Indian State and judiciary remained silent spectators. How brazenly Indian Muslims were cheated would be evident by the fact that Rao promised to rebuild Babri Mosque at its original place twice (once in Parliament and second time while addressing the nation from Red Fort on August 15, 1993), which were reneged too!  

Shamsul Islam

December 6, 2025

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