The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c12.s2.1

c12.s2.1

But if music unites, many monuments of the medieval period revive bitter memories in the Hindu mind. These are found almost in every city, every town and even in many villages either in a dilapidated state or under preservation by the Archaeological Survey of India. Many of these have been converted from Hindu *temples* and now are extant in the shape of *mosques*, *Idgahs*, *Dargahs*, *Ziarats* (shrines) *Sarais* and *Mazars* (tombs) *Madrasas* and *Maktabs*. Throughout the Muslim rule destruction of Hindu shrines and construction of mosques and other building from their materials and at their very sites went on as a normal practice. From the Quwwal-ul-Islam mosque in Delhi built out of twenty-seven Hindu and Jain temples in the twelfth century to the Taj-ul-Masajid built from hundreds of Hindu and Jain temples at Bhopal in the eighteenth century, the story is the same everywhere.