Ishwa, excellent points, thank you.
"Babar (1526-1530) ââ¬â hated his Mughal ancestry, considered himself a Turk..."
Akbar on the other hand willed to re-invent their ancestral history and connect themselves back to the Great Khaqan's relatives rather than with their turkic forefathers on the paternal side of timur-lang. The intellectual jugglary on this front is quite evident in the accounts by Abu-al Faz'l. He also got the Secret History craefully preserved & translated into Persian, and took pride in being descendants of the great shamanic mongols.
"The Indarpat Rajas were not affected by Mahmud Ghaznavi's invasion attempts..."
I think actually they were affected. If I am not mistaken, there is a record of bhojadeva having sent a strong joint force of chandrahella-pramAra led by his own nephew, to the aid of the then Indrapat Raja beseiged by the generals of Ghazanavi.
On Islamization of Moghals, it is surprising that those Moghals who were within the Indian theatre were the last to be Islamized. Late Khalji records mention much oppression of these moghals at the hands of turkoids. On one instance, by the orders of sultan, over 15000 Mogals were butchered in cold blood in dillI orudu-s. (ref SAA Rizavi's Khalji Kalin Bharat). The Moghals also supported the Hindu armed rebellion followed by brief overthrow of the dillI Sultanate by Khusru Khan/Deval Rani, and were their allies in the battle.
"Babar (1526-1530) ââ¬â hated his Mughal ancestry, considered himself a Turk..."
Akbar on the other hand willed to re-invent their ancestral history and connect themselves back to the Great Khaqan's relatives rather than with their turkic forefathers on the paternal side of timur-lang. The intellectual jugglary on this front is quite evident in the accounts by Abu-al Faz'l. He also got the Secret History craefully preserved & translated into Persian, and took pride in being descendants of the great shamanic mongols.
"The Indarpat Rajas were not affected by Mahmud Ghaznavi's invasion attempts..."
I think actually they were affected. If I am not mistaken, there is a record of bhojadeva having sent a strong joint force of chandrahella-pramAra led by his own nephew, to the aid of the then Indrapat Raja beseiged by the generals of Ghazanavi.
On Islamization of Moghals, it is surprising that those Moghals who were within the Indian theatre were the last to be Islamized. Late Khalji records mention much oppression of these moghals at the hands of turkoids. On one instance, by the orders of sultan, over 15000 Mogals were butchered in cold blood in dillI orudu-s. (ref SAA Rizavi's Khalji Kalin Bharat). The Moghals also supported the Hindu armed rebellion followed by brief overthrow of the dillI Sultanate by Khusru Khan/Deval Rani, and were their allies in the battle.