How Hindus Fought To Keep India Hindu Againt Islam

[Hauma Hamiddha]

The story seems inaccurate. The commonly presented facts are roughly thus: A Sufi subversionist Sheikh Ghaus converted Ramtanu (Tansen), born of Hindu parents to Mohammedanism. In those days, as it continues to these days Hindus without firm convictions were attracted towards Islamic charlatans known as Pirs and Fuckirs. Usually, with a bunch of magic tricks, playing on the superstitions of the masses, they attracted lay Hindus and gradually subverted them till the became Mohammedans. Tansen converted under Ghaus's influence when he was living with him for a while as an adult. He married another Hindu women who had been converted by the same fellow. Tansen is a good example of how Islam can subvert a nation also by the mode commonly used by Xtians. IIRC Tansen was with the Hindu Baghela King Ramchandra before he was taken by the Mogol tyrant. I have personally met a very moderate Moslem gentleman who is a descendant of Tansen's guru Haridas. He confirmed that his family had also been converted by the Sufi but insisted that he still had strong affinities with Hindu dharma and continued to do "dev-pUja" because that was the religion of his ancestors.

Of the Nine gems the famous Birbal a Hindu by birth converted to Akbar's new-fangled nonsensical religion Deen-i-illahi. The Rajputs Mansingh and Bhagavan Das bluntly refused to be converted and expressed their displeasure when he tried to pose as a jagat-guru of the Hindus. Man Singh extensively negotiated with Akbar that there be no state interference for building new temples for the Hindus.
BTW Tansen's mazaar is in the same complex as that of the Sufi subversionist.