![मृत्युंजय [Mrutyunjay]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355655218l/6369447.jpg)
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[T]he demonization of Mahmud [of Ghazni] and the portrayal of his raid on Somnath as an assault on Indian religion by Muslim invaders dates only from the early 1840s. In 1842 the British East Indian Company suffered the annihilation of an entire army of some 16,000 in the First Afghan War (1839-42). Seeking to regain face among their Hindu subjects after this humiliating defeat, the British contrived a bit of self-serving fiction, namely that Mahmud, after sacking the temple of Somnath, carried
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― India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
― India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
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As far as I can tell, the Hindu-Muslim tensions in India are never-ending.
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