BLOOD AND FIRE: The Untold History of Hindu Persecution

For over thirteen centuries, one of the world's oldest civilizations endured an assault without parallel in recorded history. Temples demolished by the thousands. Millions enslaved and marched through mountain passes so deadly they were named Hindu Kush - Hindu Killer - for the scale of their dying. Women sold in the markets of Iraq and Iran. An entire civilization reduced to a tax category. And then, in the twentieth century: the organized massacres of Partition, the genocide of 1971, the silent ethnic cleansing of an entire indigenous people from the Kashmir Valley in a single winter. Blood and Fire is the history that was never taught to you. Drawing on the perpetrators' own chronicles - court texts written in celebration of massacre and enslavement - alongside British colonial archives, government commission reports, and survivor testimony, this book documents thirteen centuries of persecution of the Hindu people. From the Arab conquest of Sindh in 711 CE to the forced conversions happening in Pakistan and Bangladesh today, every chapter is sourced, documented, and unflinching. What You Will Find Inside: - The daughters of King Raja Dahir - sent as gifts to a Caliph in Damascus, the first documented Hindu women trafficked into Arab slavery - Mahmud of Ghazni's 17 plunder raids and the slave markets of Central Asia flooded with Hindu captives at two dirhams each - Aurangzeb's 1669 decree ordering every Hindu temple and school in the empire demolished - in his own words - The Bengal Partition massacres of 1946 and the Noakhali pogrom that Gandhi could not stop - The 1971 Bangladesh genocide - the circumcision checks used to identify and kill Hindu men, the Chuknagar massacre of 12,000 in a single morning - The night of January 19, 1990 - when Kashmir's Pandits were given three choices from mosque loudspeakers: convert, leave, or die - The NHRC findings on West Bengal's post-poll violence - documented rapes, arsons, and the state the court said was ruled by "the law of the ruler, not the rule of law" This is not a book of hatred. It is a book of memory. The Muslim neighbor, the Muslim colleague bear no responsibility for what Timur did in 1398 or Aurangzeb ordered in 1669. But the dead cannot afford to be forgotten. Written by a young Hindu from Bengaluru, born in 1999, who grew up knowing his faith through its festivals - and nothing of its wounds. This book is his refusal to remain ignorant any longer, and his gift to every reader who deserves to know. Essential reading for students of Indian history, South Asian studies, the history of religious persecution, Hindu civilizational history, and the history of Islamic conquest of India. Read Blood and Fire. Know the history that was kept from you.

Pagina's: 156, Paperback, Independently published