The episode of violence against Brahmins in Maharashtra was the first blot on the legacy of Mohandas Gandhi as an upholder of peace and non-violence

1,200 were shot dead in the horrific Palchitaria massacre in 1922, and two wells were filled with the martyred tribals

The Inquisition was a judicial system introduced in India by Portuguese invaders. The sole objective was to promote Catholic Church at the cost of Hindu belief through an organized and brutal manner in their control of territory from 1560 to 1812

The hapless women and young girls abducted went thorough worst sex orgies of rape and violence. The whole of Mirpur was latter dugout to loot the wealth worth billions of Rupees beside gold and silver. The Muslim rebels emptied the homes of all wealth

Tipu knew his will to be a law the propriety of which... would never be questioned or doubted by any of his slaves... He probably measured the sentiments in question by a different standard from that with which we estimate them. Thus the various murders and acts of treachery which we see him directing to be carried into execution, were not criminal, but on the contrary just, and even meritorious, in his eyes

Well-known historian, Dr. K. S. Lal (1920-2002) has written in his book Growth of Muslim Population in India that according to his calculations, the Hindu population in India declined by 80 million from AD 1000 to AD 1525, perhaps the biggest ever holocaust in human history. This does not mean a mere 80 million killings. Some estimates put the number of Hindus killed in India as 280 million while Swami Vivekananda opined that the number was more than 400 million (Hindus reducing from 60 crores to 20 crores)

About 75 years ago, Kolkata experienced its most violent convulsions. The infamous ‘week of long knives’ – an unprecedented orgy of loot, murder, rapes and molestation let loose on the city’s unsuspecting Hindus by Muslim League strongmen and goons that left 5,000 people dead, tens of thousands maimed and an estimated 1.2 lakh homeless – started with the call for ‘direct action’ on 16 August 1946 by League supremo Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Tale of a Massacre like jallianwala in Independent India- Anti cow slaughter Agitation Quelling. Police unleashed charge at sanyasis and gosevaks with rods, batons and tear gas on the entire crowd, at the behest of Indira Gandhi. Unable to restrain the tumultuous crowds, they then fired bullets at the crowd, killing Hindus indiscriminately

Annie Besant wrote her experience in ‘New India’ in the year 1921 that a pregnant woman carrying a seven months baby was cut through the abdomen by a rebel and she was seen lying dead on the way with the child protruding out of her womb. In another incident, Annie Besant writes that a six months old child was snatched from her mother and cut into two pieces in front of her. Many also report that women were raped in front of their brothers and husband

These were not “riots” as often labelled, but a planned genocide, because it was spread over the entire geography of Maharashtra, not just one mohalla or city, using arson, which is not lying around in everyone’s backyard every day. The “mobs” attacking Brahmins knew who they were, where they lived, and had the means to attack them