6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

130 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
Hindu religion which was the life-blood of the Nation.
THE OUTRAGEOUS CHRISTIAN INCURSION
316. To add to these catastrophic Muslim inroads over
India Christian nations like the Portuguese, the Dutch, the
French, the British and others rushed upon our nation from
the sea, round about the fifteenth century A.D.—even if we
were to ignore the infiltration of the Syrian Christians in the
Malabar during the 1st century A.D. This Christian offensive,
like the Muslim one, was both political and religious and
equally devilish. They also wrought havoc by converting
millions of Hindus at the point of the bayonet—an account
of which will be given at its proper place.
317. Although the two fronts of this Muslim aggression,
viz., the religious and political, were only the two parts of the
same epic Hindu-Muslim struggle, their original forms, their
weapons of war and their ultimate end were altogether
different. Naturally, they have to be discussed separately,
as far as it is possible to do so.
318. Hence we shall first examine the religious aspect
of the Muslim-Christian aggression over our country in
Chapters VI to XII and then in Chapters 13 to 22 of this
book we shall discuss its political side.
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