History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.324

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The above examples will indicate what tolerance was practised by Indian kings and people even in the mediaeval period when Moslem invaders were ruthlessly attacking India. The reader should visualise to himself what the fate of a Hindu would have been, if he had the audacity to build a temple in Christian or Moslem countries or tried to collect materials for describing the Christian or Muslim religion and ways of life in the 13th century A D. like Alberuni, who was able to collect, without molestation, from Hindu Pandits and people vast material in the 11th century A. D.