sultan sikandar conquest in religious policy?answer in brief?plsssss give answer in point wise
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- Sultan Sikandar Lodi was a fanatical Muslim and he did a lot to injure the feelings of his Hindu subjects.
- He ordered the temples of Mathura to be destroyed and Sarais (inn for travellers) and mosques were constructed in their places.The idols were given to butchers who made them into meat weights. Utgir met the same fate.
- After surrender of Mandrael in 1505 the hindu temples were destroyed and mosques were raised on their sites. He also plundered and laid waste the districts sorrounding the fortress.
- A Bramhan of Bengal publicly maintained that Islam and Hinduism were both true and God could be approached by following any one of them. Azam-i-Humayun, Governor of Bihar was directed to send the Bramhan and two doctors of Islamic law to the court. Theologians were summoned from various parts of the kingdom and their decision was that the Bramhana had admitted the truth of Islam, he should be asked to embrace in and in case he refused to do so, he should be put to death. The decision was accepted by Sikandar Lodi and as the bramhana refused to embrace Islam he was put to death.
- Sikandar Shah broke the images of Jwalamukhi temple of Nagarkot.
- The Hindus were not allowed to have their bath at the Ghats on the banks of the Jamuna.
- The barbers were prohibited from shaving the heads and beards of the hindus in accordance with their usual custom.