Had Muslims not invaded India?

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Re: Had Muslims not invaded India?

@calypsodc

Banning of Sati is not a new idea created by the muslim rulers. The vedas had a ban against it a longer time ago. Actually according to the wiki,“the practice of Sati was revived most notably during the muslim invasions ofIndia”. The same is true of Jauhar in the Rajputs. Because the muslims did not treat with honour the women of the defeated and took them as slaves and war booty unlike the hindu kings the practice of Jauhar was started. There was no Jauhar when 2 hindu kings fought each other.The practice of Sati was banned ultimately because of reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy ith the help of viceroys. Maybe some of the muslim rulers tried to ban it but that was not a new or innovative idea and the practice of Sati was in one way linked to their rule. In this way this was one of the non-benefits of Muslim invasions = The status of women took a nose dive. I would really love to hear some innovative benefits , achievement and ideas during the Muslim rule that was newly inspired and did not exist before. Your reply to my post does not answer the question Diwana.

Do you mean that most of the Satti cases involved ladies who became widows due to wars between Muslims and Hindus?

I do agree that overall attitude of Indian society towards advancement and new technologies was not satisfactory and Muslim rulers (particularly Mughals) towards new technology lacked interest. Like first publishing press was introduced by Portuguese in 16th century and when Akbar saw books from the press, he didn’t approve that by saying that it lacks beauty as compared to hand-written (calligraphy) books and if he allowed press many people who are earning from manual writing of books would lose their income source.

Humayun was interested in astronomy, but that was more limited to shagun / abh shagun type issues than using that for say finding new sea routes.