India was the world's leading economy from 1CE to 1000CE but in the second millenium it lost it's spot to China after the Islamic invaders razed India's universities, disrupted the economic systems and caused havoc in religious and social life.

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Sindh became the first Indian kingdom to be conquered by a Muslim Army while India was part of the Muslim caliphate. "This is how the money and resources extracted from the sweat and toil of non - muslim subjects of India used to be siphoned to the treasuries of the (cont)
Islamic Caliphate in Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo or Tashkent to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. At the same time, the infields of India were being reduced to awful misery", writes M.A. Khan in
' Islamic Jihad : A legacy of forced conversion, Imperialism and Slavery.'
An episode from the travelogue of Francois Bernier, the Frenchman who spent a considerable length of time in Delhi illustrates that leftist and secular historians are right about one thing - the Mughals were the richest dynasty of their time. ( Cont)
But wealth has never been the yardstick for greatness. What they don't see is the reality hiding in plain sight. The relentless wars of Mughals, in particular of Aurangzeb's 28 year war of attrition with the Marathas, the prime reasons which left Indian economy in tatters.
The Mughals are a misnamed dynasty - they are not Mongols or from Mongolia but are Turkic people. The dynasty is more accurately described by the early western historians as the House of Timur. Babur's homeland being Samarkand in Uzbekistan, ( cont )
the core of the Mughal court remained Uzbek, Central Asian and Persian till the dynasty was extinguished in 1857. More significantly, the language of the Mughal harem was Turkic and that of the Mughal court was Farsi. There was very little which was Indian about it.
While Hindus, barring a few Rajput kings who had allied themselves with the Mughals, lived a wretched existence, even the newly converted Indian Muslims were treated with contempt by the Mughals.
To illustrate, one of Babur's premier commanders, Khwaja Kalan, was known for his open dislike for India. While returning to his homeland, as a parting shot, he had the following couplet inscribed on the wall of his residence in Delhi : ( cont )
If safe and sound I cross the Sind,

Blacken my face ere I wish for Hind!

Clearly, Mughals rooted in India only to live off the land. While contributing less to the country's well being, these parasitic rulers did everything to increase the people's misery.

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Source - bits from @ByRakeshSimha article.
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