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Kaushik Roy states that the ”jauhar” was observed only during Hindu-Muslim wars, but not during internecine Hindu-Hindu wars among the Rajputs.Kaushik Roy (2012), Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-1107017368}}, pages 182-184 John Hawley however disagrees with this assertion. He links it to the [[Greek conquests in India|Greek conquerors]] who also captured Indian women, arguing that it might have started the spread of jauhar.{{Cite book |author=John Stratton Hawley |title= Sati, the Blessing and the Curse|date= 8 September 1994|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195077742|pages= 165–166|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_VbHItKQjYC&q=sati+greek&pg=PA166}} [[Veena Talwar Oldenburg]] disagrees as well, saying that “internecine warfare among the Rajput kingdoms almost certainly supplied the first occasions for jauhar, well before the Muslim invasions with which the practice is popularly associated” and that “the geopolitics of the northwest, whence a succession of invaders entered the subcontinent, made of Rajasthan a continual war zone, and its socially most respected community was therefore not the Brahmins but the kshatriya or Rajput castes, who controlled and defended the land. This history predates the coming of the Muslims by more than a millennium. Commemorative stones unearthed and dated in Rajasthan and Vijayanagara mark the deaths of both sexes. Their dates, which can be reliably determined, match perfectly the times and zones of war.”Veena Talwar Oldenburg, “Comment: The Continuing Invention of the Sati Tradition” in John Stratton Hawley (ed.), ”Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India”, Oxford University Press (1994), p. 165
Kaushik Roy states that the ”jauhar” was observed only during Hindu-Muslim wars, but not during internecine Hindu-Hindu wars among the Rajputs.Kaushik Roy (2012), Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-1107017368}}, pages 182-184 John Hawley however disagrees with this assertion. He links it to the [[Greek conquests in India|Greek conquerors]] who also captured Indian women, arguing that it might have started the spread of jauhar.{{Cite book |author=John Stratton Hawley |title= Sati, the Blessing and the Curse|date= 8 September 1994|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195077742|pages= 165–166|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_VbHItKQjYC&q=sati+greek&pg=PA166}} [[Veena Talwar Oldenburg]] disagrees as well, saying that “internecine warfare among the Rajput kingdoms almost certainly supplied the first occasions for jauhar, well before the Muslim invasions with which the practice is popularly associated” and that “the geopolitics of the northwest, whence a succession of invaders entered the subcontinent, made of Rajasthan a continual war zone, and its socially most respected community was therefore not the Brahmins but the kshatriya or Rajput castes, who controlled and defended the land. This history predates the coming of the Muslims by more than a millennium. Commemorative stones unearthed and dated in Rajasthan and Vijayanagara mark the deaths of both sexes. Their dates, which can be reliably determined, match perfectly the times and zones of war.”Veena Talwar Oldenburg, “Comment: The Continuing Invention of the Sati Tradition” in John Stratton Hawley (ed.), ”Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India”, Oxford University Press (1994), p. 165
For obvious reasons, the phenomenon of ”jauhar” has been reported by Hindus and Muslims differently. In the Hindu traditions, ”jauhar” was a heroic act by women of a community facing certain defeat and abuse by the enemy.{{cite book|author1=Lindsey Harlan|author2=Paul B. Courtright|title=From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pi7xAWStawYC |year=1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-508117-6|pages=209–210}} For Muslim historians Jauhar was an act forced upon their women. [[Amir Khusrau]] the poetic scholar described it, states Arvind Sharma – a professor of Comparative Religion, as “no doubt magical and superstitious; nevertheless they are heroic”.{{cite book|author=Arvind Sharma|title=Sati: Historical and Phenomenological Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJmWgz2mv5oC&pg=PA21 |year=1988|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0464-7|pages=21–22}}
For obvious reasons, the phenomenon of ”jauhar” has been reported by Hindus and Muslims differently. In the Hindu traditions, ”jauhar” was a heroic act by women of a community facing certain defeat and abuse by the enemy.{{cite book|author1=Lindsey Harlan|author2=Paul B. Courtright|title=From the Margins of Hindu…