Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them

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**Title** **Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them**

Author	Sita Ram Goel Arun Shourie Harsh Narain Jay Dubashi Ram Swarup
Country	India
Language	English
Publisher
Released	1991
ISBN	ISBN 81-85990-49-2 (Volume 1) ISBN 81-85990-03-4 (Volume 2)

Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them is a book in two volumes by Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie, Harsh Narain, Jay Dubashi and Ram Swarup. (Volume 1: ISBN 81-85990-49-2, Volume 2: ISBN 81-85990-03-4) The first volume was published in spring 1990.

The first volume includes a list of 2000 mosques that it is claimed were built on Hindu temples, which it is asserted is based primarily on the books of Muslim historians or the inscriptions of the mosques. The second volume excerpts from medieval histories and chronicles and from inscriptions concerning the destruction of Hindu (including Jain and Buddhist) temples. The authors claim that the material presented in this book are only the tip of an iceberg.

The book contains chapters about the Ayodhya debate. The Appendix of the first volume contains a list of temple-destructions and atrocities that the authors claim took place in Bangladesh in 1989. The book also criticizes "Marxist historians" and one of the appendices of the second volume includes a "questionnaire for the Marxist professors" that the authors sent to well-known Indian historian Romila Thapar.

There were proposals in November 1990 in Uttar Pradesh to ban the book. [1].

Koenraad Elst's book Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam contains a lengthy review of the book.

Koenraad Elst claimed that "None of the negationist historians has come forward with a reply or with the announcement that a mistake has been discovered in Mr. Goel's list of monuments of Islamic fanaticism. Manini Chatterjee, reviewer for The Telegraph, could do no more than calling it a "very bad book". Very bad for the negationists, indeed." [2] And Elst further claimed: "Of the hundreds of secularist historians who have signed statements denouncing "communal history distortion", not a single one has been able to challenge even one of the 2000 claims in the list." [3]

1 Contents Volume 1
2 Contents Volume 2
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Contents Volume 1

Contents
Preface
1. Hideaway Communalism
2. The Tip of An Iceberg
3. Some Historical Questions
4. In the Name of Religion
5. A Need to Face the Truth
6. Historians Versus History
7. November 9 Will Change History
8. From Shilanyas to Berlin Wall
9. Rama-Janmabhumi Temple Muslim Testimony
10. Let the Mute Witnesses Speak
Appendix

[edit] Contents Volume 2

Preface
Section I
THE TIP OF AN ICEBERG
- 1. The Dispute at Sidhpur
- 2. The Story of Rudramahãlaya
- 3. Muslim Response to Hindu Protection
Section II
SUPPRESSIO VERI SUGGESTIO FAWI
- 4. The Marxist Historians
- 5. Spreading the Big Lie
Section III
FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH
- 6. The Epigraphic Evidence
- 7. The Literary Evidence
- 8. Summing up
Section IV
ISLAMIC THEOLOGY OF ICONOCLASM
- 9. Theology of Monotheism
- 10. The Pre-Islamic Arabs
- 11. Religion of Pagan Arabia
- 12. Monotheism Spreads to Arabia
- 13. Meaning of Monotheism
- 14. The Bible Appears in Arabic
- 15. Muhammad and the Meccans
- 16. The Prophet Destroys Pagan Temples
Section V
APPENDICES
- 1. Muslim Dynasties in India’s History
- 2. Was the Ka‘ba a Šiva Temple?
- 3. Meaning of the Word “Hindu”
- 4. Questionnaire for the Marxist Professors 408
Bibliography