06-18-2008, 12:42 AM
There is strong political need to co-opt the Mughals as our bast*** and not let the other defne them for us. This will take away the raison d'etre of the Islamists in Indian sub-contient.
The British justify their imperialism in India by highlighting the 'jahiliya' of the later Mughals and the pre-Mughal India. The glorious past of Hindu India is thrown into tancient and thus unreachable past. The whole modern narrative is based on this so called decline of India- hindu and Muslim whereas at that period India was oneof the richest and culturally advanced nation in the world.
While the British period hisotrians talk of the barbarity of the Muslim rule how different was it from the barbarity of the British after 1857 when millions were killed or disappeared in North India? Or the huge number of deaths in famines of the colonial period?And all this is suppressed.
Rekha Mishra in her study on Aurangazeb does this but does not have wide publicity.
The British justify their imperialism in India by highlighting the 'jahiliya' of the later Mughals and the pre-Mughal India. The glorious past of Hindu India is thrown into tancient and thus unreachable past. The whole modern narrative is based on this so called decline of India- hindu and Muslim whereas at that period India was oneof the richest and culturally advanced nation in the world.
While the British period hisotrians talk of the barbarity of the Muslim rule how different was it from the barbarity of the British after 1857 when millions were killed or disappeared in North India? Or the huge number of deaths in famines of the colonial period?And all this is suppressed.
Rekha Mishra in her study on Aurangazeb does this but does not have wide publicity.