Thread by @othisaivu

Jalaluddin 'Akbar' - The Mughal who conducted cruel, heart wrenching 'language experiments' on poor, usurped babies.

So, Bharat's 'Experimental Sciences' & 'Scientific Methods' ALSO owe their existence to Mughals or what? Oh my.

Thread. (1/12) @madhukishwar

We all know this:

Speech comes from hearing. Letters & Language are not natural to Man, but only a result of instructions and conversations.

But, Akbar takes up this on a whim and does a 'Language Deprivation Experiment.'
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Background: Famines & distresses were very prevalent during the times of Akbar too. Hapless, poor parents selling their children to ensure a better life for their kids were very common; these are corroborated by the accounts of Abul Fazl, Linschoten, Correa, Barbosa et al. (3/12)

So, Akbar 'buys' 20-30 sucklings/infants, unweaned kids - from hapless parents in 1578, and chooses to conduct an 'experiment' to satisfy his 'curiosity' and prove himself correct.

He could have taken care of the Famine/distress stricken families instead. But he did NOT. (4/12)

These children are kept incarcerated in a Gang Mahal ('dumb house') at Faizabad & boarded up with no scope of any external sound leaking in AT ALL.

(Imagine the plight of the parents of the tragic 'guinea pig' children!)
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These babies are fed by 'tongue-tied' wet nurses and were taken care of with respect to food.

But no sound EVER reaches them for FOUR years or so.

Guards & Akbar ensure that. (6/12)

On 9th August, 1582 Akbar visits the gang mahal. He gets his confirmation that the hapless, wretched children can't speak at all - they could only emit 'noise of the dumb.'

QED. Successful expt. But, children who could have otherwise flowered, were dumbized by a Dumbo.
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FOUR years without hearing any sound, those children were reduced to dregs. Nothing much is heard of them later;

The hagiographer/biographer Badaoni says some of the 'sucklings became the nurselings of mother earth.'

So they were just let-out, uncared for? No answers.
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Excerpts From the book, 'Akbar With the Jesuits' by Fr. Pierre Du Jarric (via Jeronimo Xavier), Published ~1617 CE, Reprinted 1926 CE by LPP, Delhi; P84-85
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Snippets from the book, 'Akbar Nama' by Abul Fazl, translated by Henry Beveridge. Persian original ~1592 CE Translation 1921 CE, Vol 3, p581-2. This is likely to be an Eyewitness account.

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From the book, 'Muntakhabu't Tawarikh' ('Choicest of Histories') by Abdul Quadir Ibn i Muluk Shah 'Al Badaoni' - Written 1595 CE, Persian reprint 1869 CE, English Translation 1922 CE. Volume II, p296.

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Yes. This tyrant, who heartlessly exploited hapless little boys and girls to satisfy his whims, is really great.

And we celebrate such heartless tyrants - all in the name of shams such as Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb & Islamic(!) tolerance(!!).

Akbar, the Great? My foot.

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