<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Sep 8 2006, 09:52 AM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Sep 8 2006, 09:52 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Najib Khan was too ambitious (2) and aimed a pathan Empire at Delhi. Madhaosing and Vijaysing had joined him in this enterprise, in order to relive themselves from the clutches of the detested Marathas.
The harrowing accounts of Abdaliâs attrocities (20) at Mathura, Varundawan and the rest of places within about a hundred miles radius from Delhi, in the lines of Changiz Khan and Taimulang, are even today most painful to read. But the terrible wail of grief and cries of the sufferers, were unable to move the Rajput sympathy to action against Abdali like this Jats. Far from it, not a finger was raised nor a word was spoken.
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Individual dignity was dearer than greater Hindu and national dignity? Collaborate with a foreigner bigot against your own co-religionaist and nationalists of a different caste and region? (One curious thought. and I am really really sorry to type this. Importing Wahabi University from Arab to India, working overtime to divide and weaken Hindu soceity, contributing to maligning history of Hindus ...this is being heralderd by lead Rajputs of politics today - Arjun Singh, VP Singh. Is this some reflection of that past?) About this feeling of mine, I am not happy about. If above is accurate, then a neutral observer would have difficulty with claims of Rajputs as the 'Hindu-protecting-mighty-sword'? Or we are missing something?
I guess by the time of Abdali, Mughals were weakened forever, so an opportunity for Rajputs to have collaborated with Marathas, Sikhs, Jats and overthrow the remaining traces Muslim imperial rule, and even provide leadership in doing that?
Digvijay, do you have some insights about Rajput princes' stand on Abdali's series of invasions? What do Rajput records say about Abdali's period?
Bharat, about Europeans, I had read somewhere that Peshwa who was in south at the time when intelligence about Afghan invasion reached him. He had approached British regarding procuring arms and ammunitions. (British were also taking Maratha and Nizam help in fight against Hyder-Ali/Tipu some time around that period). However British cunningly delayed the supply of ammunitions etc until it was too late. Not sure how much of this is true.
The harrowing accounts of Abdaliâs attrocities (20) at Mathura, Varundawan and the rest of places within about a hundred miles radius from Delhi, in the lines of Changiz Khan and Taimulang, are even today most painful to read. But the terrible wail of grief and cries of the sufferers, were unable to move the Rajput sympathy to action against Abdali like this Jats. Far from it, not a finger was raised nor a word was spoken.
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Individual dignity was dearer than greater Hindu and national dignity? Collaborate with a foreigner bigot against your own co-religionaist and nationalists of a different caste and region? (One curious thought. and I am really really sorry to type this. Importing Wahabi University from Arab to India, working overtime to divide and weaken Hindu soceity, contributing to maligning history of Hindus ...this is being heralderd by lead Rajputs of politics today - Arjun Singh, VP Singh. Is this some reflection of that past?) About this feeling of mine, I am not happy about. If above is accurate, then a neutral observer would have difficulty with claims of Rajputs as the 'Hindu-protecting-mighty-sword'? Or we are missing something?
I guess by the time of Abdali, Mughals were weakened forever, so an opportunity for Rajputs to have collaborated with Marathas, Sikhs, Jats and overthrow the remaining traces Muslim imperial rule, and even provide leadership in doing that?
Digvijay, do you have some insights about Rajput princes' stand on Abdali's series of invasions? What do Rajput records say about Abdali's period?
Bharat, about Europeans, I had read somewhere that Peshwa who was in south at the time when intelligence about Afghan invasion reached him. He had approached British regarding procuring arms and ammunitions. (British were also taking Maratha and Nizam help in fight against Hyder-Ali/Tipu some time around that period). However British cunningly delayed the supply of ammunitions etc until it was too late. Not sure how much of this is true.