Alamgir #Aurangzeb

Temple destruction thread.

Starting with Krishnajanmabhoomi , Mathura

Temple destruction in Jodhpur by the hundreds

Ref : Masir e Alamgiri

Same book

Khandela

There is one fellow called Richard Eaton , he is Audrey Trushke prototype. For example, the temple destruction at Jodhpur is counted as one temple.

Sant Ramdas holy shrine at Parali in Satara converted to mosque

Ref : Masir e Alamgiri

Another one

Somnath temple of Gujarat.

Also issued orders to destroy the Jagannath temple of Puri

The Govind Dev temple at Mathura had its spire chopped off and replaced with a dome

The Sun temple at Multan

Destroyed by Aurangzeb such that no trace was left.

More examples of multiple structures in one place being destroyed

Kashi Vishweswar - the presiding deity of Benares.

Trushke writes on Indian history but understands Zero about the country.

There is no point "protecting" ten small temples somewhere if Vishweswar is brought down.

The older temple bigger and loftier.

Aurangzeb destroyed the Principal places of worship of Hindus - Mathura , Kashi , Somnath, Multan, Puri..

It is like a bigot detroying Vatican.

One liberal favourite is how Aurangzeb granted a diamond to the Jejuri temple (which he did)

But that was AFTER an attempt at demolishing it failed.

And here is name changer specialist..

In far away Assam, Aurangzeb's general Mir Jumla ransacked Ahom burial vaults and scattered the bones of their ancestors

I once scored 55/100 in a test.

Telling my parents " I scored 10 marks more than I lost " didn't even cross my mind.

Add to it Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik , which was converted into a mosque.

Reconverted by Nanasaheb Peshwa.

From preface to Anecdotes of Aurangzeb by Jadunath Sarkar. The foremost authority on Mughal history in the 20th century.

I can see temples in excess of 300 destroyed here.

More from the Masir e Alamgiri

Temples in Chittor destroyed.