Muslim Rulers Deliberately Projected As Intolerant in India: Indian SC Judge Katju
From the Blog khudi [image: Markandey Katju]Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju on Sunday attributed simmering Hindu-Muslim tensions to a deliberate rewriting of history to project Muslim rulers as intolerant and bigoted, whereas ample evidence existed to show the reverse was true. The judge also said that Indians were held together by a common Sanskrit-Urdu culture which guaranteed that India would always remain secular. Justice Katju said the myth-making against Muslim rulers, which was a post-1857 British project, had been internalised in India over the years. Thus, Mahmud Ghazni's destruction of the Somnath temple was known but not the fact that Tipu Sultan gave an annual grant to 156 Hindu temples. The judge, who delivered the valedictory address at a conference held to mark the silver jubipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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