India History : Myth of 1000 Years of Muslim Rule
The "effective" rule was precisely from 1206 with the establishment of the Mamluk Dynasty to the year 1707 when Aurangazeb died. So about 500 years.
And even during these years many parts of South India,East India, Marathwada remained out of control of the Islamic Empires whose main power base was the UP region with the Empire extending upto Bihar in the East and Godavari basin down South.
Even during the rule of pre-Mughal Muslim dynasty's, their dominance was mostly in the urban areas like major cities and towns and their writ didn't extend much into the rural areas. At the village grass-roots level, it was always the local landlord or the tax-collector or the village panchayats or community leaders who had control and they were mostly Hindus.
The maximum duration of foreigners (Afghan/central Asian/Persian/Arab) rule in south-Asia was in the regions of the present day Pakistan.
Also, I feel that there must a big self-loathing in the Punjabi-Musalman, that they were the first ones to be conquered and then submit to the foreign invaders and they were under the foreign rule for the past 1500years.. The fact that they were molested over and over and over again by the central Asians, Afghans, Arabs and the Persians, must have got very deep into their psyche. Like a sexually abused child who grows up to being a greater abuser, the Punjabi-Muslaman in the post-independence era wants to be the dominate his country, which was the main reason for their humiliation of 1971.
In the last 1000year history, the Punjabi-Musalman has been a ruler of his nation only since 1947. Before 1947, the last time a Punjabi who ruled the land of 5 rivers, all the way to Kabul, was a Sikh by the name of Rajit Singh.
Source:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...ho-saved-india-more-war-10.html#ixzz22wx6crCr
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