08-31-2010, 12:06 AM
Exactly! The Muslims had by then a dreadful fear for "Pagan" Mughals.
See also my scheme below for India:
I. 1st Delhi Kingdom (1206-1398 = 192 years)
1. Turki Mamluks (1206-1290 = 84 years)
Shamanist Mughal threats, at least 15 major invasions
2. Turkoid Khalajis (1290-1320 = 30 years)
Shamanist Mughal invasions, 10 counted.
NOTE: except for the invasion of the Mughal Abdallah. He converted to Islam when the Mughals were governing Ghazni. But still, despite being a Muslim, he despised the Turks, for Mughals they were slaves. Therefore he attacked the Turkoid Khalajis, who were actually Turks from Mawara-un Nahr (Transoxiana), and fled to the southeast for the Mughals. The Khalaji Sultan made an agreement, and the depicted story is that the Mughals became newly converted and settled in Delhi. The real story rather must have been that these were freshly converted Mughals from the army settled in Ghazni. Probably they were captured and spared and considered as special mercenaries in the army of their co-religionists. They were used against the Hindu Rajas. Till some incidents occurred against the general of the Sultan, that all were considered too dangerous for the Turks. Thus the newly Muslim Mughal mercenaries were massacred.
But the main body of Mughals in Transoxiana were still non-Muslim Shamanists.
3. Turki Tughluqs (1320-1413 = 93 years)
Three Mughal invasions
Tarmashirin of the first invasion in 1327 was a Bauddha, afterwards converted to the Islam.
How fast the islamization of the Mughals went on, I don't know yet fully in detail. It had to do with the islamization of the heartland of Mughals (Transoxiana) from where they launched expeditions to the next belt which they held for launching attacks on Turki Sultans in India.
By the time of the Timurid Chaghatay Mughals, of the clearly Mughal Barlas tribe, this islamization of that heartland was completed. The role model for this new identity came from the largest populations of Transoxiana: Muslim Turks (language) and E-Iranic Sogdians (architecture, culture) and to a lesser extent Muslim Iranic Tajiks (Persian culture). The Shamanist Mughals then must have been looked down upon by the Muslim ones.
But, Timur remained a (raiding) Mughal and still looked down upon the Turks, whether Muslim or not. That's why he punished the Delhi Tughluq Sultan, not because he found him lax, but simply because Turks were considered their slaves, unworthy to be their equals as rulers. But in which standard book is this point mentioned?
Of course, Hindus were unworthy of living in his Muslim eyes.
By the time of Babur, the Turkic influence through the language was the strongest, may be through marital relations with Turki women? May be also because other powerful Mughals in Central-Asia were hostile towards him.
Anyway, the Timurid Mughals spoke by then Turki and were Tajiko-Persianized in their manners. Previously the enemies of the Turks during their Shamanist period, now really started looking down on the dominant people of the new belt towards India: the ethnically different (islamized) Pathans.
See also my scheme below for India:
I. 1st Delhi Kingdom (1206-1398 = 192 years)
1. Turki Mamluks (1206-1290 = 84 years)
Shamanist Mughal threats, at least 15 major invasions
2. Turkoid Khalajis (1290-1320 = 30 years)
Shamanist Mughal invasions, 10 counted.
NOTE: except for the invasion of the Mughal Abdallah. He converted to Islam when the Mughals were governing Ghazni. But still, despite being a Muslim, he despised the Turks, for Mughals they were slaves. Therefore he attacked the Turkoid Khalajis, who were actually Turks from Mawara-un Nahr (Transoxiana), and fled to the southeast for the Mughals. The Khalaji Sultan made an agreement, and the depicted story is that the Mughals became newly converted and settled in Delhi. The real story rather must have been that these were freshly converted Mughals from the army settled in Ghazni. Probably they were captured and spared and considered as special mercenaries in the army of their co-religionists. They were used against the Hindu Rajas. Till some incidents occurred against the general of the Sultan, that all were considered too dangerous for the Turks. Thus the newly Muslim Mughal mercenaries were massacred.
But the main body of Mughals in Transoxiana were still non-Muslim Shamanists.
3. Turki Tughluqs (1320-1413 = 93 years)
Three Mughal invasions
Tarmashirin of the first invasion in 1327 was a Bauddha, afterwards converted to the Islam.
How fast the islamization of the Mughals went on, I don't know yet fully in detail. It had to do with the islamization of the heartland of Mughals (Transoxiana) from where they launched expeditions to the next belt which they held for launching attacks on Turki Sultans in India.
By the time of the Timurid Chaghatay Mughals, of the clearly Mughal Barlas tribe, this islamization of that heartland was completed. The role model for this new identity came from the largest populations of Transoxiana: Muslim Turks (language) and E-Iranic Sogdians (architecture, culture) and to a lesser extent Muslim Iranic Tajiks (Persian culture). The Shamanist Mughals then must have been looked down upon by the Muslim ones.
But, Timur remained a (raiding) Mughal and still looked down upon the Turks, whether Muslim or not. That's why he punished the Delhi Tughluq Sultan, not because he found him lax, but simply because Turks were considered their slaves, unworthy to be their equals as rulers. But in which standard book is this point mentioned?
Of course, Hindus were unworthy of living in his Muslim eyes.
By the time of Babur, the Turkic influence through the language was the strongest, may be through marital relations with Turki women? May be also because other powerful Mughals in Central-Asia were hostile towards him.
Anyway, the Timurid Mughals spoke by then Turki and were Tajiko-Persianized in their manners. Previously the enemies of the Turks during their Shamanist period, now really started looking down on the dominant people of the new belt towards India: the ethnically different (islamized) Pathans.