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For more than
two millennia, India has suffered one bloody invasion after another, leaving
a Holocaust of millions of lives and a civilization and culture left in near
ruins. Through it all, India is the only one of the great ancient
civilizations that has survived today. Hinduism is the most ancient and
only continuously surviving religion and culture that has successfully
maintained itself while so many other cultures and civilizations have
vanished. No other ancient civilization has retained its ancient religion
and culture under the onslaught of the western Abrahamic monotheist
religions.
The first of the
major invasions came from Alexander of Macedonia. His invasion of
India was intended to bring Greek culture to India and to encourage cultural
exchange between the Indic and Hellenic worlds. This invasion was mild
compared to the savage invasions of Islam, which continue even today,
attempting to decimate the Indian religions of Dharma and the Culture of
Bhaaratvarsha (India). The contemporary French writer François Gautier has
said, "The massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled
in history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the
massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the
slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish
and Portuguese."
Just as India
was about to successfully throw off the yoke of Islamic barbarism after
nearly 1000 years of slaughter, the British and Portuguese came with their
missionaries. They tried to finish what Islam had begun, beginning
centuries more of colonial strangulation of the great Vedic Culture of
India, until finally India won her Independence in 1947. By then, so much
damage had been done that India was forced to accept partition along
religious lines and give up much of her northern territories to what are
today the Islamic States of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
What is left of
modern India is still rife with a growing population of Muslims and the
continuing threat of Christian missionaries, openly seeking to wipe out
Hinduism, which is not only the majority religion of India, but more than
that, the Indian way of life and her very culture. Here we present a brief
overview of the history of the foreign invasions and occupations of India.
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