Story of Kingdom of Ghazni

Mahmud [997/98 - 1030], the Sultan of the Central Asian Kingdom of Ghazni, which is almost every year as a fire monsoons over North India hinwegfegte and the reputation of a great temple Destroyer and a scourge of Hindus far ahead, came to the Hindu faith ears that he the only reason so many of their temple was destroyed because the gods of the temple to support Somnath had forfeited. In the view, so that at the root of the gods of the Hindu religion to stir, and tempts by the prospect of the temple treasures plundered, Mahmud marched on to Somnath. The Hindus were complacent in the belief that Shiva Mahmud only reason Somnath had let to the Sultan for his raids to punish. Now that the Hindus on a self-manifesting of Shiva's divine wrath hoped was their resistance against Mahmoud unorganized and came much too late. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus came to the legend in the ensuing carnage to - fifty thousand according to recent estimates hindunationalistischer historian. The temple was razed to the ground. The Shiva lingam has been broken into pieces and together with the temple treasures plundered after Ghazni, where the fragments then steps on the main gate of the mosque were. The Hindu historians who Mahmuds talent as General and the fact that he is Muslim by chroniclers as one of the most glamorous kings and as a great fighter for Islam is seen, recognize, add yet added:

"These ruthless destruction of temples and gods pictures violated the most sacred feelings of the Indian people, and his advocacy for Islam, therefore, put him in their eyes even more down than anything else would have managed."

Somnath and Mahmud of Ghazni, over the following centuries in memory of the people closely linked. Today evokes the name of the Hindu temple at less up the image of Shiva, but rather the memory of one of the cruelest räuberischsten and the Muslim invaders. The choice of Somnath as a starting point for the Rath Yatra, the symbolic echoes of this company probably calculated; Hindu chariot in a fair thing went on, old humiliations to revenge, injustice from past repair.

For the Hindus Somnath is actually what Volkan as a "chosen trauma" means, as well as the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya in December 1992, probably one of the chosen trauma of the Indian Muslims to make money. The term "chosen trauma" refers to an event that causes a helpless community, and from a different feel unfairly treated and that the psychological idea of the collective identity of the group anchored. Trauma elected does not mean that Hindus or Muslims, it had chosen to victims, but only that they have a specific event from their history "chosen" have to be a myth in order to internalize it and thus constantly this forward. Once chosen trauma will always be activated anew to the cohesion of a group to strengthen the "memories" of their persecution, their unfair treatment and that ultimately they still survived. In the late nineteenth century had Swami Vivekananda [1863 - 1902] follows Somnath "recalled":

"Look, this temple, the times of hundreds of attacks, and a hundred renewal is constantly out from the ruins, so they are rejuvenated and strong as ever."

At the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century should Advani chose the trauma of the Hindus, in turn, from the depths of cultural memory take out.

If the Yatra So Somnath began, it was a matter of symbolic symmetry, that it ended in Ayodhya, the birthplace and the capital of the kingdom of Rama and therefore the seat of the "chosen glory" of the Hindus. For many Hindus, the story of Rama the most splendid moment in the history of India dar. The renewed reminder of how it annually at the Ram Lila festival is celebrated, is the collective chest swell with pride. Also, the chosen glory is internalized and equally crucial importance for the cultural identity of a group of like-minded their trauma, both represent milestones in the territory of the cultural memory of a group.

Advanis train came to a stand when he was in November in Bihar was arrested before he was on the last leg of his journey to Ayodhya could make, where the BJP [Bharatiya-Janata Party] and its affiliated organization, the Sangh parivar, promised had with the construction of a Rama temple on 9 November to begin. The already angeheizten political passions were shortly before the outbreak. The spark provided the prime minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, who had vowed that he, for the construction of the temple to prevent, "not even a bird can enter Ayodhya" would. The well-oiled party machinery of the Sangh parivar was to have succeeded, thousands of kar sevaks from all over the land for the temple herbeizuschmuggeln. On 9 Yadav November, the police command, the fire on the kar sevaks to open, the police had broken through barriers with the intention of the Babri mosque down, so the temple case. Under the fire of dozens of police came kar sevaks killed. Their bodies were on the banks of the river Saryu burned and the ashes were then BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party-] activists in the villages and cities in different parts of the country brought from which they originated and where they are martyrs to the cause of Hindus were celebrating. Soon broke out in many parts of the country's unrest between Hindus and Muslims.

In Hyderabad, more than a thousand miles south of Ayodhya is located, started the unrest of 1990 so that two Hindus, a Muslim rickshaw driver killed the engine. Although the murder later with a territorial dispute between two rival gangs were linked, but he added that in the context of tensions between Hindus and Muslims who have just about the time he was done, were rising. The Muslims had retaliated by four Hindus in various parts of the old city stung. Then, Majid Khan, an influential local politician from Subzimandi, in the dark zone between crime and politics is alive and is successfully operating, a few BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party-] activists attacked with a sword, and it was the rumor he had died. Muslim mobs rotteten in the alleys and streets of the Old City and then Hindu mobs in the areas where Hindus were strong, and the riot broke off. It should last for ten weeks and called more than three hundred deaths and thousands of wounded. "