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1900–1976 India
Sri Ram Sharma (1900-1976) was a professor, historian and author. He taught history, politics and public administration at the Punjab, Bombay and Poona Universities for many years.
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He stopped public worship at the Hindu temple of Dwarka.
In Orissa some time before 1670 the temple at Kedarpur was demolished and converted into a mosque.
It is safe to hold, however, that Hindus were usually excluded from all high offices and were employed otherwise only when their employment was unavoidable.
The private house of a Rajput, Devi Singh, in the pargana of Alup, which was used as a temple, was converted into a mosque.
In a small village in the sarkar of Sirhind, a Sikh temple was demolished and converted into a mosque. An imam was appointed who was subsequently killed. Several other Sikh temples were also destroyed.
Muhammad Shah, censor attached to the army, reported that many soldiers went to worship idols in the temple at Purandhar. On 2 January, 1705, orders were given that the temple be desecrated and demolished. The temple of Wakenkhera in the fort was demolished on 2 March, 1705.
About this time, on 14 April, 1692, orders were issued to the provincial governor and the district fojdar to demolish the temples at Rasulpur. In 1693, the Haitheswar temple at Bar Nagar in Gujarat was demolished.
Aurangzeb destroyed the temples at Mayapur (Hard war) and Ayodhya. ‘All of them are thronged ' with worshippers, even those that are destroyed are all venerated by the Hindus and visited by the offering of alms.