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“He was a stout partisan of Islãm and made great endeavours on this score. He got all temples of the infidels demolished, and did not allow even a trace of them to remain. In Mathurã, where the infidels used to get together for bathing, he got constructed caravanserais, markets, mosques and madrasas, and appointed there officers with instructions that they should allow no one to bathe; if any Hindû desired to get his beard or head shaved in the city of Mathurã, no barber was prepared to cut his hair.”

— Sikandar Khan Lodi

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Tabqãt-i-Akharî by Nizamuddin Ahmad.

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In his time Hindu temples were razed to the ground, and neither name nor vestige of them was allowed to remain.

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