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Muslim rulers did not build Tajmahal, Lal Qila, Kutub Minar, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, and hundreds of other historical sites.
While serving in India as A.D.C. to the Governor-General (1836 to 1840) Lord Auckland, young lieutenant Alexander Cunningham conceived an ingenious scheme of misusing archaeological studies far long- term political ends
Later in pursuit of that plot, Cunningham addressed a letter dated September 15, l942(When he was 28 years old) to Col. Sykes, a Director of the British East India Company in http://London.In those days, the British were busy consolidating their newly won empire in…
…India. Consequently, there was a keen, inborn, patriotic desire in the heart of every Britisher then serving in India to suggest to his Superior ways in which India could be kept under British rule to serve as a permanent milch cow.
Young Cunningham, an army engineer, had no training either in history or archaeology. Yet, he had a cunning, brainy idea of misusing archaeology to subserve British imperial interests. As an A.D.C., he was close to Britain’s top administrator in India, the Governor-General.
Through the letter, Cunningham had an approach to the Director of the British East India Company.
On September 15, 1842, Cunningham unveiled a diabolic plan, that archaeological exploration in India “would be an undertaking of vast importance to the (British) Indian government politically and to the British public religiously (and that the) establishment of the Christian…
…religion in India, must ultimately succeed.’ (Page 246, Vol. 7, Journal of the Royal Society, London, 1843)So, the whole purpose of archaeological exploration in India was neither the study nor preservation of historical monuments.
But to use archaeology as an imperial tool to create mutual dissensions and resentment between Buddhists, Jains, other Hindus, and Muslims by falsely crediting all Monuments as far as possible to align Muslim invaders and label a few as Buddhist or Jain but not Hindu.
