The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India

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The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India is a book that was published by Sita Ram Goel in 1982. The second revised edition was published in 1994. ISBN 81-85990-23-9

Sita Ram Goel is of the opinion that the Islamic invasion of South Asia was no "walk-over", and that South Asia was as not as easily conquered by the Muslims as North Africa or Spain. There were also many battles and struggles during the so-called Muslim Empire, and Goel says: "Reviewed as a whole, the period between the last decade of the 12th century and the first quarter of the 18th - the period which is supposed to be the period of Muslim empire in India - is nothing more than a period of long-drawn-out war between Hindu freedom fighters and the Muslim invaders." In two chapters, he summarizes the atrocities of some Muslim invaders and rulers like Mahmud of Ghazni or Aurangzeb. Goel is also of the opinion that the Islamic invasion was possible because of a spiritual failure of the Hindus.

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1. In The Name of National Integration
2. The Character of Muslim Rule in India
3. Plea for a Perspective
4. The Nature of Conflict in Medieval India
5. Islam was the Culprit
6. The Magnitude of Muslim Atrocities – I
7. The Magnitude of Muslim Atrocities – II
8. The Myth of Muslim Empire in India
9. The Determinants of Hindu Defeats
10. The Status of Hindus in an Islamic State
11. Of Assimilation and Synthesis
12. Islam Versus Insãniyat (Humanism)
13. Appendix

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• Online book The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India
• Review

The works of Sita Ram Goel
Hindu Society under Siege (1981), The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1982), How I Became a Hindu (1982), Defence of Hindu Society (1983), History of Heroic Hindu Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders (1984), Perversion of India's Political Parlance (1984), The Calcutta Quran Petition (1986), History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1986), Muslim Separatism - Causes and Consequences (1987), Catholic Ashrams (1988), Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them (1990), Vindicated by Time (1998), Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy (1998)