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To: CarrotAndStick; blam; farmfriend

ping for the history buffs

The "saffronisation" of history, critics of the last government say, depicted India's Muslim rulers as barbarous invaders and the medieval period as a dark age of Islamic colonial rule that snuffed out the glories of the Hindu empire that preceded...

***From what I read of past muslim invasions, I'd say they were barbarous but what invading force from anywhere wasn't barbarous?


2 posted on 06/27/2004 8:37:44 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: cyborg
From what I read of past muslim invasions, I'd say they were barbarous but what invading force from anywhere wasn't barbarous?

WEll the majority were barbarous, but however the Mughals did usher in a lot of development. Though the first (and greatest Mughals) were secular.
9 posted on 06/27/2004 11:12:47 PM PDT by Cronos (W2K4!)
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