Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c9.2

c9.2

its first victories, and we have harrowing tales of old Universities broken up, libraries looted and the votaries of indigenous learning, Hindu or Buddhist, murdered or driven away homeless. These were, however, the days of unrest and transition, of the travails of a new birth when the old order was changing, yielding place to new.