As a student of history, I don't get this deep seated aversion that the BJP-led government has towards "Mughals". Is it so hard for them to understand that Mughals unlike the Mongols or other Central Asian invaders made India their home. For that matter even Aryans were..
...immigrants who made India their home and led to the advent of the Vedic age. That way the Dravidians should hate North "aryan" descendants. But when an immigrant makes a land their home and contributes to the economy and consolidation of a geographical area to provide..
...security from further invasions, he/she becomes a fellow citizen, not an enemy. Cherry picking incidents of breaking "temples" or "jiziya tax" (which by the way was abolished by Akbar) to show Mughals as barbarians is such a sad degeneration of the truth about about Medieval..
..Indian History. These agenda led targeted hate campaigns towards all things Mughal,which is a subtle way to represent the anti-Muslim sentiment,only goes to show the hypocrisy of the Hindutva blinded folks because the very monument on which we raise our national flag on 26th..
.. January was built by a Mughal. The tourists that we call "atithi devo bhava" and invite to our "Incredible India" have most of the monuments built by the Mughals on their must-see bucket lists. Which monument comes in the 7 wonders of the world? The Taj Mahal built by a ..
...Mughal. India's history now seems to only be glorious or at least worth talking about from the times of the freedom struggle and post Independence. So all our glories are either from Ancient India or Modern India whereas the golden age - Medieval India, when India prospered..
.. and thrived because of which foreigners travelled here and eventually colonizers from all of Europe tried to grab a piece of, has become a period every unevolved parochial mind wants to forget and erase. We only put to shame our own country by belittling it's history.
Footnote:For all those who've never picked up a book on anthropology and beat their chests over "Aryan" immigration being a debunked theory,pick up a book on anthropology first,READ it, I'll even give you a keyword:INDO - IRANIAN. Then go to Manusmriti. It'll be amply clear then!
