Lower-caste experience of Muslim rule differed sharply from Brahminical history

Evidence

The mass conversion of oppressed-caste Hindus, particularly to Islam, continues to sit uncomfortably with Hindu supremacist history writing, which dwells on a golden age of Hinduism that was brought to naught by the cruelty and vandalism of Muslim rule. Vandalism and cruelty there certainly was. Yet it meant different things to different people. Here is Jotiba Phule (1827-90), the earliest of the modern anticaste intellectuals, on the subject of the Muslim rule and of the so-called golden age of the Arya Bhats (Brahmins): The Muslims, destroying the carved stone images of the cunning Arya Bhats, forcibly enslaved them and brought the Shudras and Ati-Shudras in great numbers out of their clutches and made them Muslims, including them in the Muslim Religion. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 141