02-20-2007, 02:55 AM
Alleged conversion of Gokul's family to Islam?
The End:
After the loss of Tilpat, Gokula was soon captured by the Mughals and along with his uncle Uday Singh (who also fought in the battle of Tilpat) was imprisoned and was taken to Agra along with other captives. Many of the womenfolk committed Jauhar to escape the clutches of the Mughals. At Agra Gokula was asked to embrace Islam if he wished to live, on hearing this Gokula asked Aurangzeb to offer his daughter to him in return to poke fun at the Emperor [10], this enraged Aurangzeb and he ordered the execution of Gokula. On January 1, 1670 following the orders of Aurangzeb, Gokula was hacked to death piece by piece on the platform of Agra Kotwali (Agra Police Office) and the same thing was done to his uncle Uday Singh, thus ended the life of both the heroes and both attained martyrdom in fighting the tyranny of the Mughals but refused to give up their religion. After Gokulas death his family was forcibly converted to Islam, according to Sri Sita Ram Goel âthe capture and murder of Gokul with fiendish cruelty and the forcible conversion of his family members to Islam, coincided with the destruction of the KeÅ¡avadeva temple.â [11],
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<b>There is no evidence that Gokull's family was ever caught by the Muslims, let alone converted to Islam. </b>
It appears to another piece of exageration which our Indian Historians, accept uncritically.
I had written on this earlier, and am reproducing the relevant part.
"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JatHistory/message/2609
On the question of his wife or his daughter being married to a Muslim,
and his son also being converted does not make sense.
The only sources quoted are the Maasir Alamgir, a history of Aurangzeb
written some year after his death. The other source is given as the
"Salatin I Chagtai" by Muhammad Hadi Kamwar Khan.
Girish Chandra Dvivedi, accepts this version, and writes:
"The family of Gokul was converted to Islam. His daughter was married
to Shah Quli Chela, and his son named Fazil".
I have not been able to find the original in any of the books that I
have. Elliot and Dowson are silent on this, and the extract from the
Maasir, in their book, does not contain anything which speaks of this
conversion.
I do not say that it is impossible, but then there is the version that
the all writers including the Muslims agree, of the me killing their
women, the women killing themselves and their children, at the battle
of Sahora. The men then rushed out to fight. They fought their way
through and escaped to fight another day.
The battle of Tilpat comes next, a year later after this event.
Gokul , it is acknowledged was caught and his limbs hacked off, one by
one, after he refused to convert to Islam.
Thus the only source about the alleged conversion of his daughter
and son to Islam, come from a late Muslim source the Maasir Alamgiri,
written some 40 years after the Tilpat battle event, with no other
supporting record.
Many Muslim sources, manuscripts are full of rhetoric.
What could more debasing to the enemy psyche, than to capture their
leader, kill him in public, by hacking off his limbs one by one. As a
final igonomy, his wife and daughter would be sent off to a Muslim
Harem, , and his son be also converted to Islam, to become a pious
reader of the Koran, which he then rtead every night to Alamgir
Auranzeb himself.
I suspect this is just one more case of empty Histrionics.
No Jat tradition or record supports this.
If that is the case, why are Indian historians so ready to accept an
Islamic version?
Ravi "
The End:
After the loss of Tilpat, Gokula was soon captured by the Mughals and along with his uncle Uday Singh (who also fought in the battle of Tilpat) was imprisoned and was taken to Agra along with other captives. Many of the womenfolk committed Jauhar to escape the clutches of the Mughals. At Agra Gokula was asked to embrace Islam if he wished to live, on hearing this Gokula asked Aurangzeb to offer his daughter to him in return to poke fun at the Emperor [10], this enraged Aurangzeb and he ordered the execution of Gokula. On January 1, 1670 following the orders of Aurangzeb, Gokula was hacked to death piece by piece on the platform of Agra Kotwali (Agra Police Office) and the same thing was done to his uncle Uday Singh, thus ended the life of both the heroes and both attained martyrdom in fighting the tyranny of the Mughals but refused to give up their religion. After Gokulas death his family was forcibly converted to Islam, according to Sri Sita Ram Goel âthe capture and murder of Gokul with fiendish cruelty and the forcible conversion of his family members to Islam, coincided with the destruction of the KeÅ¡avadeva temple.â [11],
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<b>There is no evidence that Gokull's family was ever caught by the Muslims, let alone converted to Islam. </b>
It appears to another piece of exageration which our Indian Historians, accept uncritically.
I had written on this earlier, and am reproducing the relevant part.
"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JatHistory/message/2609
On the question of his wife or his daughter being married to a Muslim,
and his son also being converted does not make sense.
The only sources quoted are the Maasir Alamgir, a history of Aurangzeb
written some year after his death. The other source is given as the
"Salatin I Chagtai" by Muhammad Hadi Kamwar Khan.
Girish Chandra Dvivedi, accepts this version, and writes:
"The family of Gokul was converted to Islam. His daughter was married
to Shah Quli Chela, and his son named Fazil".
I have not been able to find the original in any of the books that I
have. Elliot and Dowson are silent on this, and the extract from the
Maasir, in their book, does not contain anything which speaks of this
conversion.
I do not say that it is impossible, but then there is the version that
the all writers including the Muslims agree, of the me killing their
women, the women killing themselves and their children, at the battle
of Sahora. The men then rushed out to fight. They fought their way
through and escaped to fight another day.
The battle of Tilpat comes next, a year later after this event.
Gokul , it is acknowledged was caught and his limbs hacked off, one by
one, after he refused to convert to Islam.
Thus the only source about the alleged conversion of his daughter
and son to Islam, come from a late Muslim source the Maasir Alamgiri,
written some 40 years after the Tilpat battle event, with no other
supporting record.
Many Muslim sources, manuscripts are full of rhetoric.
What could more debasing to the enemy psyche, than to capture their
leader, kill him in public, by hacking off his limbs one by one. As a
final igonomy, his wife and daughter would be sent off to a Muslim
Harem, , and his son be also converted to Islam, to become a pious
reader of the Koran, which he then rtead every night to Alamgir
Auranzeb himself.
I suspect this is just one more case of empty Histrionics.
No Jat tradition or record supports this.
If that is the case, why are Indian historians so ready to accept an
Islamic version?
Ravi "