India’s top 5 revenue generating monuments were all built by Muslim rulers

[Valar Dohaeris]

The Taj Mahal and 4 other monuments earned Rs 146.05 crore, more than half the total revenue generated by centrally-protected monuments, in 2017-18.

New Delhi: Fringe Hindu groups and even some BJP leaders may have sought to belittle their significance but official data shows that India’s top five revenue generating monuments were all built by Muslim rulers – the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Qutub Minar, Fatehpur Sikri and Red Fort.

While Qutub Minar was built by rulers of the Delhi Sultanate, the rest were constructed by the Mughals.

These five monuments together earned the government Rs 146.05 crore in 2017-18, according Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) data. This is more than half the total revenue of Rs 271.8 crore generated by all centrally-protected monuments.

The Taj Mahal, which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent years, with the Supreme Court last month pulling up the ASI for its poor maintenance, continued to be the highest earner at Rs 56.83 crore.

While some politicians sparked a controversy last year by arguing that the Mughal-era monument did not represent Indian culture, the number of visitors to it, both Indian and foreign, only increased since 2016-17.

A total of 64.58 lakh people visited the Taj Mahal in 2017-18 compared to 50.66 lakh in 2016-17.

Last year, the UP tourism department had even omitted the Taj Mahal, a UNESCO world heritage site, from a brochure listing the state’s principal attractions.

With total earnings of Rs 30.55 crore, Agra Fort built by Mughal emperor Akbar, another UNESCO world heritage site, was the second highest revenue generator in the last financial year.

While the Konark Sun Temple in Odisha came second after the Taj Mahal in terms of number of visitors (32.3 lakh), it generated only Rs 10.06 crore as revenue. This, officials said, is because the temple is mostly popular only with Indian tourists, with 32.21 lakh domestic visitors making the trip last year.

While Indian tourists are charged Rs 30 per head as entry fee to world heritage monuments across the country, foreign tourists have to pay Rs 500 each.

“It is impossible to communalise the entire Indian population through the meaningless political venom spewed by politicians,” said historian S. Irfan Habib, explaining the increase in visitors to the Taj.

“No matter what they say about the Taj Mahal and Red Fort, Indians will continue going there,” he added.

 

[Valar Dohaeris]

https://theprint.in/governance/indi...uments-were-all-built-by-muslim-rulers/66723/

 

[Suriya]

That's cause most Hindu monuments were either totally destroyed or broken and left in ruins by the same medieval Muslim rulers .

This is from the article .
" While the Konark Sun Temple in Odisha came second after the Taj Mahal in terms of number of visitors (32.3 lakh), it generated only Rs 10.06 crore as revenue. This, officials said, is because the temple is mostly popular only with Indian tourists, with 32.21 lakh domestic visitors making the trip last year. "

Let me tell you Konark sun temple is also half broken by some Muslim invader . It is still so beautiful that it is one the biggest tourist attraction and a UN heritage site.

 

[Valar Dohaeris]

That's cause most Hindu monuments were either totally destroyed or broken and left in ruins by the same medieval Muslim rulers .

This is from the article .
" While the Konark Sun Temple in Odisha came second after the Taj Mahal in terms of number of visitors (32.3 lakh), it generated only Rs 10.06 crore as revenue. This, officials said, is because the temple is mostly popular only with Indian tourists, with 32.21 lakh domestic visitors making the trip last year. "

Let me tell you Konark sun temple is also half broken by some Muslim invader . It is still so beautiful that it is one the biggest tourist attraction and a UN heritage site.

It does not look broken or beautiful.

 

[hussain0216]

That's cause most Hindu monuments were either totally destroyed or broken and left in ruins by the same medieval Muslim rulers .

This is from the article .
" While the Konark Sun Temple in Odisha came second after the Taj Mahal in terms of number of visitors (32.3 lakh), it generated only Rs 10.06 crore as revenue. This, officials said, is because the temple is mostly popular only with Indian tourists, with 32.21 lakh domestic visitors making the trip last year. "

Let me tell you Konark sun temple is also half broken by some Muslim invader . It is still so beautiful that it is one the biggest tourist attraction and a UN heritage site.

There is plenty of hindu temples, people just rather go see muslim monuments

 

[Chhatrapati]

There is plenty of hindu temples, people just rather go see muslim monuments

So? What Pakistanis got to do with it?

 

[Suriya]

It does not look broken or beautiful.

It's 800 years old and front half is broken . U should visit the place to see incredible cravings
on the stone .

There is plenty of hindu temples, people just rather go see muslim monuments

LOL Those are hindu temples and often out of bound for Non Hindu tourists.

And when it comes to money , Tirupati temple alone generates 50 times more revenue than Taj Mahal and 18 times more than all those monuments put together

 

[hussain0216]

So? What Pakistanis got to do with it?

Lets face it if it were up to you clowns the hindus would have either burnt those monuments down,
Tried to subvert history and say they are in reality Hindu temples
Its only because they are making money they have not been attacked

This is the shared history of all muslim in the sub continent but left in the hands of hindutva fanatics and Hijrah indian muslims

It's 800 years old and front half is broken . U should visit the place to see incredible cravings
on the stone .

LOL Those are hindu temples and often out of bound for Non Hindu tourists.

And when it comes to money , Tirupati temple alone generates 50 times more revenue than Taj Mahal and 18 times more than all those monuments put together

Only because hindus go to see it, otherwise its just pagan idol temples

Muslim monuments carry real prestige of an empire of the day

 

[Chhatrapati]

Lets face it if it were up to you clowns the hindus would have either burnt those monuments down,
Tried to subvert history and say they are in reality Hindu temples
Its only because they are making money they have not been attacked

This is the shared history of all muslim in the sub continent but left in the hands of hindutva fanatics and Hijrah indian muslims

Whatever. Those matters do not have anything to do with Pakistanis. You are not here. Neither of the monuments constructed has nothing to do with Pakistanis.

 

[hussain0216]

Whatever. Those matters do not have anything to do with Pakistanis. You are not here. Neither of the monuments constructed has nothing to do with Pakistanis.

Yet they are muslim and as we see downtrodden indian muslims cant even protect or protest the hindutvaisation of india or getting rid of muslim placenames so its a pity muslim history in india is under sever attack

 

[Species]

That's cause most Hindu monuments were either totally destroyed or broken and left in ruins by the same medieval Muslim rulers .

This is from the article .
" While the Konark Sun Temple in Odisha came second after the Taj Mahal in terms of number of visitors (32.3 lakh), it generated only Rs 10.06 crore as revenue. This, officials said, is because the temple is mostly popular only with Indian tourists, with 32.21 lakh domestic visitors making the trip last year. "

Let me tell you Konark sun temple is also half broken by some Muslim invader . It is still so beautiful that it is one the biggest tourist attraction and a UN heritage site.

This is a classic case of history revisionism by Indian historians. Most of these Hindu or Buddhist temples were destroyed by natural calamities and wars against other Hindu rulers.

A notable case is that of Nalanda Bihar which the Indian revisionists claim to be destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji. However, in reality, the Bihar was actually destroyed by the Brahmins as part of their persecution of the Buddhists.

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/muha...lji-a-hero-or-villain-to-bangladeshis.398117/

Many Hindu temples today stands on the ruins of ancient Buddhist temples destroyed by the Barhmins to ensure the steady decline of Buddhism in the subcontinent.

Ancient Hindu temple found built on Buddhist shrine in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur

 

[Chhatrapati]

Yet they are muslim and as we see downtrodden indian muslims cant even protect or protest the hindutvaisation of india or getting rid of muslim placenames so its a pity muslim history in india is under sever attack

Still it has nothing to do with Pakistani Muslims. All the Monuments constructed are by Indian Muslims. And we are proud of it. Whatever Hindutva goons and others say those are there to stay. Renaming places means zilch. My religion is not threatened by such actions. Islam is not about Monuments (rather they are un-Islamic to build large monuments in memory of someone). Why you feel threatened by something that's across the border? may be your beliefs are so fragile unlike Indian Muslims.

 

[Suriya]

Only because hindus go to see it, otherwise its just pagan idol temples

Muslim monuments carry real prestige of an empire of the day

Those are Hindu temples so of course Hindus will visit them . LOL

BTW more foreign tourists go to Rajastan , Kerala even Bananas than go visit those Muslim monuments other than The Taj .

 

[hussain0216]

Still it has nothing to do with Pakistani Muslims. All the Monuments constructed are by Indian Muslims. And we are proud of it. Whatever Hindutva goons and others say those are there to stay. Renaming places means zilch. My religion is not threatened by such actions. Islam is not about Monuments (rather they are un-Islamic to build large monuments in memory of someone). Why you feel threatened by something that's across the border? may be your beliefs are so fragile unlike Indian Muslims.

Pakistan was made for muslims across the sub continent, its still part of the history of hundreds of millions of muslims here our history did not just begin in 1947

And your wrong muslim monuments are under attack, Take Babri Masjid for example

Its all designed to humiliate indian muslims, they attack your eating habits, your marriage rituals, your faith and names

Gradually they try to erase muslim history by changing everything to hindu names

Personally buddy im with it, its why we made Pakistan
Jinnah warned us about this 70 years ago and I think you will admit Jinnah was right

 

[Chhatrapati]

Pakistan was made for muslims across the sub continent, its still part of the history of hundreds of millions of muslims here our history did not just begin in 1947

And your wrong muslim monuments are under attack, Take Babri Masjid for example

Its all designed to humiliate indian muslims, they attack your eating habits, your marriage rituals, your faith and names

Gradually they try to erase muslim history by changing everything to hindu names

Personally buddy im with it, its why we made Pakistan
Jinnah warned us about this 70 years ago and I think you will admit Jinnah was right

You made it for that purpose. But we didn't buy it.

And yet, no Indian Muslims are taking arms against their own country despite so many provocations from the media about some silly incidents getting overblown based on religion.

And the number of Muslim is not going down it is coming up. And soon it will be a larger percentage until the growth normalize.

Who cares why you made Pakistan. It was neither the concern of my forefathers, neither it's the concern of us.

And Jinnah made an Islamic Republic. Now it's a Sunni republic. And I'm not Sunni, so I'm glad I'm not in Pakistan.