--- description: Because eleven Hindu women returning from a religious ceremony made music before the door of a Mohammedan mosque in Indore, some 2,000 Mohammedans avenged this infraction of the Koran last week by... title: Music: Music v. Mosque image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Music: Music v. Mosque by [TIME](/author/time/) Feb 28, 1927 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Feb 28, 1927 5:00 AM CUT Because eleven Hindu women returning from a religious ceremony made music before the door of a Mohammedan mosque in Indore, some 2,000 Mohammedans avenged this infraction of the Koran last week by rioting, killing five of the Hindu women, and stubbornly resisting for some time a cavalry troop sent to quell them by the Maharaja of Indore. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6660350/music-music-v-mosque/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6660350/music-music-v-mosque/"},"headline":"Music: Music v. Mosque","datePublished":"1927-02-28T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-27T06:15:00.989Z","description":"Because eleven Hindu women returning from a religious ceremony made music before the door of a Mohammedan mosque in Indore, some 2,000 Mohammedans avenged this infraction of the Koran last week by...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6660350/music-music-v-mosque/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6660350/music-music-v-mosque/","name":"Music: Music v. Mosque"}}]}] ```