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Muhammad ibn Bakhtiyar Khilji is a cursed name in the history of human progress because he had a penchant for seeking out and destroying world-famous Hindu seats of learning.
That Muslim fiend, a sold and resold slave, dismissed from several posts for being a bully and a nuisance, bears a lengthy, sonorous, high-sounding and tongue-twisting name - Malik Ghazi Ikhtiyar-ud-din Muhammad ibn Bakhtiyar Khilji.
While humanity as such has since the time of Adam, striven hard and sweated and toiled to enhance knowledge and ensure progress, Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji belongs to that serried and solid phalanx of Muslim invaders who like countless, despicable termites made short work of books, scriptures and Hindu seats of learning.
Even among that swarm of human pests and brutes Bakhtiyar Khilji holds a pride of place because, unlike the other Muslim marauders, he was not content with destroying the areas he traversed. He was nosey and choosy. In devilish glee he specially sought out select renowned ancient Indian universities, like the celebrated Nalanda Vihar, and cracked down on them with hammer and tongs, torch and sword, ax and crowbar and chisel and spear.
The prince of perverts - Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji - is a blot on the human race. And yet the town of Bakhtiyarpur in Bihar, close to the site of his cruel depredations, bears his name. One wonders whether a hero who has brought honor and glory to a country, and another who has brought shame and ruin should both have townships named after them. This perversely even-handed justice has been a special trait of supine, complacent and cowering India. The names of its many towns, villages and cities like Allahabad, Ahmedabad, Mehmoodabad and Najibabad bear an unmistakable stamp of India's slavery and subjugation.
Author : Shri Purushottam Nagesh Oak
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