Temple Desecration under Muslim Rule

Critical Analysis of Orientalist Prospective

Abstract

An attempt has been made that temple desecration is not something that was introduced by the Muslim rulers. Temple desecration was full-fledged established tradition even before the arrival of Muslims in India. Muslims just followed the tradition. Then why there is a deliberate connectivity of the issue with only Muslims rulers? These sensitive concerns were highlighted and associated with the Muslim rulers in erroneous way just in order to create rifts between Hindus and Muslims, to divide them and rule, and also to justify the imperialistic ascendency of the British. This article is an attempt to break the deliberate historical silence upon the matter of temple blinding and maintenance by the Muslim rulers. Furthermore, I made an attempted to dislodge another erroneous notion that all the temples were destroyed by the theory of iconoclasm. There were more political reasons behind the temple desecration rather than religious.