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Starting from 6th century the invaders like the Turks and the Muslims were attracted to India mainly for her wealth and the freedom fighters continued their struggle for freedom. Then came the Mughals in the 11th century. During each of these invasions thousands were massacred, women were raped, and forcibly converted to Islam; thousands of temples and important places of education and social and human developments were plundered and destroyed. Almost for 1000 years, Hindus met with one holocaust after another by the invading barbarians. Renowned historian Will Durant said: The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may anytime be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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