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Islamic Imperialism in Indiaand punishments, as a warning to all men, that no zimmi (dhimmi) could follow such wicked practices in aMusulman country.’ 446The independent Bahmani sultans of Gulbarga and Bidar in Central India ‘considered it meritoriousto kill a hundred thousand Hindu men, women and children every year,’ noted Abdul Kadir Badaoni. 447 It wasa rule of the Bahmani sultans of the Deccan Sultanate ‘to slay a hundred thousand Hindoos in revenge of thedeath of single Mussulman,’ records Ferishtah. As a result, when King Dev Raya II captured two Muslimsoldiers in a war, Sultan Alauddin Ahmad Shah Bahmani II (1436–58) swore that ‘should Dew Ray (DevRaya II) take away the lives of the two captive officers, he would revenge the death of each by the slaughter ofa hundred thousand Hindoos.’ Terrified Dev Raya not only released the Muslim prisoners, he also promisedto pay tribute to the Sultan. 448Amir Timur noted in his memoir, Malfuzat-I Timuri, that he invaded India to fulfil his Islamic dutyof waging holy war against the infidels ‘to become a ghazi (infidel slayer)… or a martyr.’ On his order toslaughter a large number of captives in his possession on the eve of his assault on Delhi (December 1398), hewrote: ‘When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their sword and put their prisonersto death. 100,000 infidels, impious idolaters, were slain’ on that single day. 449Under Aurangzeb: During the late period of Islamic rule under Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707), Indiawitnessed large-scale destruction of Hindu temples and schools, and slaughter of the infidels (Hindus, Sikhsetc.). According to his official chronicle, Ma-Asir-I Alamgiri, the Emperor learnt in 1669 that ‘foolishBrahmans were in the habit of expounding frivolous books in their schools and the students and learners—Musalmans as well as Hindus—came there, even from long distances, led by desire to become acquaintedwith the wicked sciences they taught.’ An infuriated Aurangzeb, therefore, ‘ordered all the provincialgovernors to destroy, with a willing hand, the schools and temples of the infidels; and they were strictlyenjoined to put an entire stop to the teaching and practicing of idolatrous forms of worship.’ 450 ‘Hindus werenot allowed to wear any marks of honor, to ride elephants etc… The heaviest burden of all was the poll-tax onnon-Moslems, or jizyah, introduced in 1679...’ 451 Aurangzeb was a champion defiler of Hindu temples; hedestroyed thousands of them. Of the mind-blowing record of despoiling of temples in the year 1679 alone,records Ma-Asir-I Alamgiri:1. ‘Khan Jahan Bahadur arrived from Jodhpur, bringing with him several cartloads of idols,taken from the Hindu temples that had been razed.’ Some of these idols were ‘placedbeneath the steps of the grand mosque, there to be trampled under foot.’2. When Prince Muhammad Azam and Khan Jahan Bahadur proceeded to Udaipur "to effectthe destruction of temples of the idolaters," some twenty Rajput princes revolted to protectthe temples and "those fanatics" were sent to hell and "the temple was now clear, and thepioneers destroyed the images."3. Aurangzeb ordered the destruction of three temples constructed by the Rana of Udisagar.Returning from the campaign, Hasan Ali Khan stated ‘the temples situated near the palaceand one hundred and twenty-two more in the neighboring districts, had been destroyed.’446. Ibid, p. 381447. Lal (1999), p. 62448. Farishtah, p. 267–68449. Elliot & Dawson, Vol. III, p. 394,436450. Ibid, Vol. VII, p. 183–184; also Bikaner Museum Archives, Exhibit No. 9451. Antonova K, Bongard-Levin G and Kotovsky G (1979), A History of India, trs. Judelson K, Progress Publishers,p. 255150