Random Musings

Are Hindus violent people?  As someone who grew up in India in the 80s and 90s, this question seems so laughable. For most of us used to be frustrated and angry with the average "docile" Hindu.  Are there any facts to support this belief? Ok, depending on how credible you find Wikipedia, here goes: "Historical records of religious violence are extensive for medieval India, in the form of corpus written by numerous Muslim historians.  Will Durant  states that Hindus were historically persecuted during  Islamic  rule of the  Indian subcontinent . [19]  The total number of deaths of this period, are usually attributed to the figure by Prof.  K.S. Lal , who estimated that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD the population of Hindus decreased by 80 million. [20] [21] [22] Religious violence in medieval India began in centuries before the start of Delhi Sultanate, with the raids by Turko-Mongol, Persian and Afghan armies....