Khilji’s starring role in the destruction of Indian Buddhism is well-documented in contemporaneous Muslim sources and cannot be shifted to unnamed Hi… - Koenraad Elst

So, you may continue to throw mud at me. But I trust that through all this mud, an inconvenient fact will shine through: I have done only this much, but at least I have done it. You may try to give a dirty twist to it by calling it "insufferable grandstanding" or, even worse, "white skin". But when all is said and done, a simple fact remains standing: I did it, you did not.

It is interesting to watch these notions spreading from Indian secularist militants to their indological acolytes and on to the general Western intellectual, who simply has no clue on critically evaluating them.

But meanwhile, to my knowledge, ever since Dyen’s publication, no expert has come forward to corroborate his hypothesis or develop it further. That’s only an argument from opinion trends, possibly even reflecting mere inertia and conformism, but it cannot be ignored altogether.