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Re: Temple Destruction by Aurangzeb: Literary Evidence (Expanded Version)
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Temple Destruction by Aurangzeb: Literary Evidence (Expanded Version)
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From: y.r.rani@mail.utexas.edu (Yvette C. Rosser)
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Date: 7 May 1995 05:46:32 GMT
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From news@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu Sun May 7 01: 35:30 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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References: <3nrk8g$97a@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3nrk8g$97a@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, Rajiv Varma
<rvarma@ccaix.jsums.edu> wrote:
> Destruction of Hindu Temples by Aurangzeb
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>
Archeological explorations and
> excavations in modern times have proved unmistakably that most of the
> mosques, mazars, ziarats and dargahs which were built in this area, stood
> on the sites of and were made from the materials of deliberately
> demolished Hindu monuments.
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. Archeological evidence from
> various Muslim monuments, particularly mosques and dargahs, not only
> confirms the literary evidence but also adds the names of some Muslim
> rulers whom Muslim historians have failed to credit with this pious
> performance.
Do you infer that these Islamic structures should be demolished? Though
many are still in use? Does another wrong make a right?
I hate all the missing arms and faces from Ek Ling Ji to Budh Gaya to
Lumbini, but, I don't want to go out and destroy the mosque of someone who
had nothing to do with the destruction of temples. Sort of like
incarcerating my children because my great-grandfather owned slaves.
