Title : Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders up to 1206 A.D.

Pustak Parichay – “Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders up to 1206 A.D.”

• Author : Ram Gopal Misra

• Edition : Third, 2020 (First published in 1983)

• Publisher : Prakashan, Bengaluru

The general readers of the history of the early Muslim invasions and the resistance offered by the Hindus have hitherto read Marxist or European versions of our history, which have systematically downplayed the valor of Hindus. According to these versions, the Muslim invaders easily routed their Indian adversaries, as they were divided in terms of caste and were blinded by superstitions. What is shocking is that this view by Marxist historians virtually justifies Islamic invasion of India as a positive move towards a classless society! Persian and Arabic sources are not completely unbiased either. The basic prejudices of the Muslim historians against other religions, make them reject any other account, however authentic, if it tends to subvert their basic belief in the might of Islam. They elaborately describe victories of the arms of Islam while the reverses are either conveniently omitted or painted as having ended in negotiations. Even when described, only minor details are made available.

Viewing history in the right perspective, Dr. Ram Gopal Misra’s detailed study of the stiff resistance offered by the Hindus to the tide of early Islamic invaders is an invaluable resource to all students of Indian history. Through copious references to original texts, the author has established that Muslim invaders found it very tough to sweep the Hindu bastions. More often than not, they succeeded only after resorting to unfair means unheard of by the chivalrous Hindu kings of those days.

‘Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders up to 1206 A.D.’ presents a cogent account of the prolonged and sustained efforts of the Hindus to stem the onslaught of early Islamic invaders (636 to 1206 CE). The political, military and cultural resistance of the Hindus was spread across five and a half centuries until its decline in the last decade of the twelfth century. Historians have generally emphasized merely the ultimate collapse of the Hindus, largely ignoring the earlier resistance offered by them. It must be remembered that resistance encountered by the Muslim invaders in India was not faced by them in any other land they conquered. From this book, it is amply clear that the Muslim invaders had a very tough time in controlling the Hindu masses that refused to convert en masse, as it had happened in other countries invaded and conquered by Islam through a deadly mix of brute barbaric armies and jihadi ideology which justifies victory by any means.

Packed with painstaking research, the book is a solid and substantial contribution to the history of a comparatively obscure period of Indian history. It is a fitting tribute to the Indian kings and subjects who have retained their own unique cultural identity despite a thousand-year old history of relentless Muslim onslaught. The book is handy for research scholars as well as for lay readers to understand the dynamics of Indian resistance to Muslim invaders up to 1206 CE.

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