From the 14th century onward there has been persecution and more persecution of the Hindus of Kashmir by the Muslim rulers there and, yet, the myth of harmonious inter-community living is propagated because of (a) ignorance of facts (b) superficiality of intelligence and (c) governmental posturing.
Six times the Hindus of Kashmir have faced genocide and exodus before the last and the most recent one of Jan, 1990 which was the seventh such instance. This must be clearly understood.
In all these centuries there has been the systematic cleansing of the Hindu population by means of (a) persecution (b) conversion (c) genocide and (d) banishment till today there are hardly Hindus left in the Kashmir Valley. This is the truth. So, discard your notions that there has been peace and communal harmony in Kashmir all along and that it was only post-1990 that sectarian trouble shot up there.
Now, how you propose to deepen your perceptions about the persisting Islamic threat to India is for you to determine. Upon your understanding depends the future of our motherland.
Pakistan is just the symptom of a far deeper disease in the Indian polity stemming from the conquest of Sindh by Muhammad Bin Qasim in early 8th century.
We must never forget that we were a much vaster landmass occupied by Bharatiyas sharing a common Hindu heritage --- and, here, I include Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs and adherents of all other dharma traditions originating in India as forming the composite culture of eternal India --- before Muslim marauders from across our borders came in hordes to disrupt our civilisation and culture, and, eventually, dismember our motherland in Partition. We have never recovered since then for we continue harbour illusions and spin the yarn of untruth about ourselves in foolish self-delusion.
Written by Sugata Bose
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