Foreign Invasion of Medieval India - Part 2

 Continued From: The Forgotten Empires Of India: Foreign Invasion of Medieval India - Part 1

The brigands who controlled the throne of North India merely used Islam as a cover. According to Isami, “It must be noted that unlike the Arabs — inhabitants of Arabia and descendants of Abraham and kahtan — these Turks had embraced Islam mainly with the object of satisfying their ambition for worldly power and indulgence in war. Turks Tartars and Mongols who descended upon Islamic countries for mercenary game and seized the power and if they also

adopted the religion of the vanquished people, they only put it on like a coat without understanding its inner spirit as their minds were, not prepared for it, they were not fit to receive it.” (https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.142818/2015.142818.Futuhus-Salatin-Or-Shah-Namah-I-Hind-Of-Isami-Vol-i_djvu.txt)  

They openly declared their allegiance to the Caliphate only to solemnize their claim on the throne. Baghdad being thousands of miles away, it must have been impossible for one Caliph to control the rise of unscrupulous Sultans, who repeatedly popped up like weeds in a garden. These self proclaimed Sultans were adventurers who neither respected nor followed Islam. The Caliphate existed in theory to provide legal checks on the Sultan’s autocracy , but was ineffectual. The Sultans often terrorized even the Ulmas and were always in clashes with them. It is hence not a surprise that almost every Sultan who had ruled Delhi, from Allaudin Khilji to Akbar toyed with the idea of starting a new religion with the Sultan as the godhead. The actions of the Sultans,  especially their homosexual relationships with their slaves contradicted theological Islam and they were always in clashes with the Ulmas, the later however often held their tongue in fear of being persecuted! The Sultans under the Islamic Law were not allowed to lead a luxurious life. They were supposed to be the refuge to the poor and the weak, but every Sultan who sat on the Throne of Delhi has disregarded these laws by misappropriating public funds and by terrorizing the public. The reason for such blatant disregard for Islamic Laws is because of the ordinary, uneducated and unsophisticated beginnings of the Sultans, who were only the slaves of their predecessors, patiently waiting for an opportunity to wreak vengeance on their oppressor. Having obtained control over the throne by murdering their predecessors, the Sultans did not trust any of their nobles and were in the habit of passing the throne over to their slaves who were their homosexual partners. The throne thus passed on to the hands from one slave to the other, the Mamluks, the slaves of the Ghori empire. The Arabic word  “Mamluk” means “owned”. The Sultans of this dynasty were either themselves slaves of the earlier dynasty or were descendants of the slaves. The Mamluk Dynasty is popularly known as “The Slave Dynasty” in history.

Continued On: The Forgotten Empires Of India: Foreign Invasion of Medieval India - Part 3