Undoing the damage done to Indian History-Part 6 by Aniruddha Avanipal

Just after Mohammed Bin Qasem was done with his carnage of loot, plunder and rapine in Sheersham (alias Sisam), he received an instruction from Caliph Hajjaj to go back to Nirun, cross the Indus river and fight against King Dahir. Meanwhile Dahir's governor of Devalaypur (Karachi) had been terrorized by Qasem's Muslim gangsters to accept Islam. Within a few months, he had matured into an arrogant neo-convert and started calling himself Maualana Islami. Qasem found Maulana Islami a more fanatic Muslim than some of his own original Islamic gangsters and decided to send him as an envoy to Maharaja Dahir.

When Maulana Islami was summoned in Dahir's court, he refused to bow in royal presence of Dahir. The conversion to Islam made him forget even the common courtesy sense. He even had the audacity to demand in an insulting manner that Dahir should surrender to the marauding forces of Islam. Maulana Islami was upbraided for his insolence and sent back to Qasem with the message that King Dahir's forces would be ready for fighting.

In an anticipation of the ensuing war with Dahir, Hajjaj sent fresh reinforcements of Islamic marauders to help Mohammed Qasem. Qasem employed small group of Muslim gangsters to guard the area where he was trying to build a bridgehead over the Indus river. The Muslim soldiers were also told to prevent Jaisimha and Fufi, sons of Dahir, both of whom were in charge of the Bait fort near Alor.

Qasem's pathetic attempt to construct a bridge of boats across the Indus river was repeatedly foiled by a contingent of Dahir's Army lead by Rasil. Keeping up a continuous barrage of arrows and boulders they destroyed the boats as they were tethered. Foiled in his attempt, Qasem used another procedure to cross the river. He got a number of boats tethered together to a length enough to cover the river's width and then had them floated across the river stream. This method worked and most of Qasem's Islamic gangsters got across. A pitched battle took place between the riverside contingent and the Muslim marauders and as they were outnumbered, they had to retreat and take cover in the fort of Jham.

One of the Dahir's ministers got panicky and suggested that Dahir should surrender and make peace with the Muslim marauders. Tolerating a counsel of despair was not in King Dahir's blood. He beheaded the panicky minister who failed to stand by country's honor in this crucial time of dire need.

Aniruddha Avanipal
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