Hinduism is one of the oldest religion of the world. In fact it is called the 'Sanatan Dharma'. The name Hindu, as some of the historians say, was given by the Arabs who used to come to Indus valley for trade and for education. One should not forget that India was not only a major place of study it was the only source of Education.

Arabian people had some missing sounds so instead pronouncing 'INDU' they were pronouncing 'Hindu' and hence the people living in Indus valley were called Hindoos.

We should also not forget that these Arabian People were a main link for trade and education between India and Europe. Algebra has also emerged from Arabic Al-jabra, because Arabic people used to keep the formulas of Algebra, learned from India, in there upper pocket of shirt.

Hindoos were very stickt in imparting Knowledge. They had a policy of not imparting the knowledge to the non deserving or croocked person. They used to believe that Knowledge is like of double edge sowrd. Person can misused to harm to the society.

So when the time started changing and Hindoos started loosing control, people from various part of the world, especially from the Arabic countries, started coming to India to loot and make a fortune  out of that. As the Indian kings were slowly becoming weak and India had more intensity of attack from the western side, the invadors started to settle in the border areas and tried to establish there kingdom.

These people were very ruthless and barbarian. When they gained power, they started defeating the local Indian kings and started establishing there kingdom. The first major attack on India, from the west side, was from Mohammad Bin Kasim who not only was able to get a lot of wealth in attack but also was able to convert some of the local Hindoos to Muslim religion.

After this it became kind of tidal waves and one after other invaders came to India and were able to establish their kingdom on the major part of Bharatvarsha, the then India. After this the sole goal of the rulers was to convert the local Hindoos to Muslim religion either by force or by bribe.

During this rule hindoos lost their rich tradition and heritage. Many of the scholars were killed as they did not agree to convert. The university at Takshila, now in Pakistan, was burnt by the invaders and it is said that the library which contained a lot of books from centuries, containing the work of a lot of scholars, kept burning for six months.

Hindoos were, as it looks to me, were not great warriors and had no interest in fighting. These people believed more in accommodating. There Holy books and scholars always preached that whole world is like a family and all the human beings are brother and sisters.

To be continued…………..