Dear Arnab Can you give some references for our comment "Hindu fanaticism has destroyed centuries of Buddhist scholarship in ancient universities in India during the Hindu revival. "
While there may have been isolated incidences of intolerance -- generally buddhist, jain, hindus lived side by side peacefully india. So please do disseminate distorted information Here is some information on how the famous buddhist learning centre of Nalanda was destroyed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda Decline and end In 1193, the Nalanda University was sacked by Bakhtiyar Khilji[20]; this event is arguably seen by modern Brahiminist scholars as a milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India. Legend has that the only thing Khilji asked was if there was a copy of the Koran at Nalanda before he sacked it. The Persian historian Minhaz, in his chronicle the Tabaquat-I-Nasiri, reported that thousands of monks were burned alive and thousands beheaded,[21] and the burning of the library continÂued for several months and "smoke from the burning manuscripts hung for days like a dark pall over the low hills."[22]. When the Tibetan translator Chag Lotsawa (Chag Lo-tsa-ba, 1197 - 1264) visited the site in 1235, he found it damaged and looted, with a 90 year-old teacher, Rahula Shribhadra, instructing a class of about seventy students, apparently with the support of a local Brahmin.[23][24]. Ahir considers the destruction of the temples, monasteries, centers of learning at Nalanda and northern India to be responsible for the demise of ancient Indian scientific thought in mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, and anatomy.[25] Ling and Scott, however, point out that centres of learning were already declining, before the presence of Muslims.[20] Fortified Sena monasteries along the main route of the invasion were destroyed, and being off the main route both Nalanda and Bodh Gaya survived. Many institutions off the main route such as the Jagaddala Monastery in northern Bengal were untouched and flourishing.[citation needed] Here is on the qutb minar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb_complex The first mosque built in Delhi, the "Quwwat al-Islam" was built after demolishing the Jain temple built previously by Prithvi Raj and leaving certain parts of the temple outside the mosque proper.[2] This pattern of iconoclasm was common during his reign, although an argument goes that such iconoclasm was motivated more by politics than by religion.[3]It was the first mosque built in Delhi after the Islamic conquest of India and the best surviving example of Ghurid's architecture. Expansion of the mosque continued after the death of Qutub. His successor Iltutmish extended the original prayer hall screen by three more arches. By the time of Iltutmish, the Mamluk empire had stabilized enough that the Sultan could replace most of his conscripted Hindu masons with Muslims. This explains why the arches added under Iltutmish are stylistically more Islamic than the ones erected under Qutb's rule. The mosque is in ruins today but indigenous corbelled arches, floral motifs, and geometric patterns can be seen among the Islamic architectural structures. To the west of the Quwwat ul-Islam mosque is the tomb of Iltutmish which was built by the monarch in 1235.
