From Raja Dahir to Prithviraj Chauhan to Maharana Pratap to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and many more; there has been a continuous struggle for Independence. Our independence is about protecting our civilization; from whomsoever it may be.
UPSC website has a specimen copy of a test paper wherein a passage is beautifully crafted to whitewash the crimes of Islamic invaders, and blame all the plunder to native rulers, even they chose none other than the GREAT Prithviraj Chauhan to paint him as a barbarian.
The Ram mandir movement is civilizationally important as it brought in not only the mainstream Hindu voices but also many subaltern voices that did not have a voice in the broader national discourse. It is after a long time that people stood up for something casting aside their caste and even religious divisions.
Ram Mandir is an issue which has surrounded a billion strong nation from 30-years and has led to multiple Hindu-Muslim riots leaving hundreds of people dead of both religions and is why still not a Hindu-Muslim issue?
In 1574 the Vaishnav saint Tulsidas in his writing “Ramcharitmanas” and in 1598 Abu al-Fazal also in his third volume of Akbarnama mentioned the Lord Ram birthday festival in Ayodhya. They did not mention any existence of a mosque.
The Hindu stands powerless. He is tormented at the fact that the expanse of the word “Hindu” has been narrowed to the theological aspect of his culture.
It is time that history books reevaluate the acts of these so called great Muslim rulers. The lie that bigotry and communalism in India started only after 1857 needs to be dispelled.