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The Ideology of Iconoclasm

The medieval Islamic conquest of India was not merely a quest for power, loot, or land. The systematic destruction of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples — documented in meticulous detail by the conquerors themselves — reveals a distinctive religious ideology without parallel in pre-Islamic warfare in the subcontinent.

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