Hindu Genocide of 1757 during Holi
28 Feb 1757. Jat prince Jawahar Singh with 5000 men offered resistance against Ahmad Shah Abdali's forces near Mathura fr 9 hrs, but in vain. What followed was genocide of 1000s of devotees who assembled in Mathura/Vrindavan 2 celebrate Holi 👇
28 Feb 1757. Jat prince Jawahar Singh with 5000 men offered resistance against Ahmad Shah Abdali's forces near Mathura fr 9 hrs, but in vain. What followed was genocide of 1000s of devotees who assembled in Mathura/Vrindavan 2 celebrate Holi 👇
Source: 'Ahmad Shah Durrani, Father Of Modern Afghanistan', by Ganda Singh, Asia Publishing House, 1959. Amidst celebrations we also must know what happened to our ancestors in the past as a result of religious intolerance. We need to remember them and pray for their Shanti.
An excerpt from the aforementioned book: "To quote from Samin’s Memoirs, ‘wherever you gazed you beheld only heaps of the slain; you could only pick your way with difficulty, owing to enormous number of bodies lying about and the amount of blood spilt.
At one place that we reached, we saw about two hundred dead children in a heap. Not one of the dead bodies had a head. . . The stench and fetor and effluvium in the air were such that it was painful to open your mouth or even draw a breath.'"
Few fellow Indians question credibility of their own fellow Indians fighting invaders n asking for proof. Here's source screenshot. Whether Dalits or Jats, Marathas or Gurjars, Tamils or Rajputs, Cholas or Bhils, peasants or warriors, lakhs fought for the freedom we enjoy today.
People of certain community demean people of other communities regularly to show superiority - 1 of reasons why India was under foreign rule for many years. Continues today 2. Even Dalits became warriors fighting fr motherland. 1000s of examples. Will such people stop barking? No
