Who was Raja Dahir and why he is not taught in Indian History books?

 Raja Dahir Sen was the last Hindu ruler of Sindh. He was the first man to confront the Arab invasion of Hindustan. He was the Hindu King who had given refuge to the family of Imam Husayn (grandson of Prophet Muhammad, pbuh). In other words, the people who had been massacred by the Arabs (Umayyads) found refuge in an Indian kingdom with a Brahmin King called Raja Dahir Sen. In search of Imam Husayn's family, Arab’s 17-year-old commander Muhammad Bin Qasim attacked Sindh. Raja Dahir died fighting. Raja Dahir’s son was also killed. His two daughters were taken away as a ransom and presented to the so-called Arab Khalifa. In addition, around 20,000 Indian girls from Sindh were transported and sold in the sex slave markets of Damascus (current Syrian capital).

Raja Dahir Sen died defending Hindustan and it’s sad that Hindustan has forgotten him. He has sacrificed so much and Indians don’t know about him. What a shame. There is not even a street (in Sindh or even in India) named after him. This is the tragedy of India. We have boulevards named after scoundrels like Lodi and murderers like Aurangzeb, but, in this billion populated Republic of India, there is No mention of Raja Dahir.

Who finally stopped the Arab Invasion in Punjab and Kashmir?

After winning Sindh, Qasim’s army moved towards the north and attacked Punjab. But the king who stopped them was Lalitaditya (most Indians also don’t know him).

He was Kashmir’s most powerful King who not only stopped the Arabs from Invading India from the north-west but from the south (i.e. Muhammad Bin Qasim’s army) and pushed him back. His empire, based in Srinagar, was India’s finest and largest empire named as “Karkota Empire”. No doubt that this information is not taught in the Indian syllabus. The 8th-century Karkota Empire of Lalitaditya extended from the Caspian Sea to the Bay of Bengal.

Why this information is not taught?

Because, when India became independent, it had an education minister (Abul Kalam Azad) with an agenda that ensured that NO Indian would ever read about Raja Dahir in any syllabus in any course. Raja Dahir Sen got deleted from the Indian education system to the extent that if you go to a bookstore today and say that “I want to read about the 8th century India”, you will NOT find any book with all that information. The information about Raja Dahir was erased from the memory and history of India by our own first education minister (who actually was born in Saudi Arabia). He came here and cleansed the facts. What a tragedy. Abul Kalam Azad wanted to delete all the Arab-Hindustan fights that happened especially in the 8th Century (which indirectly involved Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) family). Maybe, he didn’t want to show the Arabs in a bad light and thus only preserved Muhammad bin Qasim's history & not his contemporaries.

But the truth can’t remain hidden for too long.

What the Government is doing?

The current Indian government has recognized the fact and said that very soon we have a “Raja Dahir Marg”. That will be a great tribute to the great son of Hindustan who gave his life for the Indian soil.