The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c21.14

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c21.14

A resuscitated Brahmanism, which characterised the religious history of Rajput India, gave a militant aspect to Hindu society but at the same time, by its persecutions, alienated the Buddhists. They were outcasted and driven out from all parts of India to find refuge in Nepal. We have no direct evidence, as we have for the Arab occupation of Sind, but it is highly probable that the despised Buddhists and the lower classes of the country viewed with no great sorrow the disaster that befell the Brahminical dynasties.

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