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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
11 May 2007 02:50:33 AM |
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Indian mutiny |
Recurring clashes of faith
Anil Bhanot
May 11, 2007 7:00 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/anil_bhanot/2007/05/recurring_clashes_of_faith.html
Today is the 150th anniversary of the first war of Indian
independence, otherwise known as the Indian mutiny of 1857. The
uprising occurred after a century of British rule in India and its
underlying cause was a clash of faiths.
When the first Mughal emperor, Babar, invaded India in 1526, he was
advised that the way to rule Hindus was never to interfere in their
faith. For several generations this edict was more or less observed by
the Mughal dynasty until Aurangzeb's reign from 1658 to 1707 when
religious tolerance was abandoned, Sharia law imposed and Hindus
forcibly converted to Islam. But Hindus retaliated for the entire
period of Aurangzeb's reign under the religious leadership of first
the 9th and then the 10th Sikh Gurus, Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru
Gobind Singh.
"Indian mutiny" OR "Sepoy mutiny"
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22Indian%20mutiny%22%20OR%20%22Sepoy%20mutiny%22&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&q=%22Indian+mutiny%22+OR+%22Sepoy+mutiny%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&q=%22Indian%20mutiny%22%20OR%20%22Sepoy%20mutiny%22&sa=N&tab=wb
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Indian+mutiny%22+OR+%22Sepoy+mutiny%22&btnG=Search+Directory&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Indian+mutiny%22+OR+%22Sepoy+mutiny%22&start=0&scoring=d&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&
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