Thread by @othisaivu

Professional whitewashers of Indic histories - Indrani Chatterjee (UT Austin Prof) & Richard Eaton (Arizona univ Prof, @audreytruschke's guru) edited a 2006 book 'Slavery & South Asian History.'

Of course, it has NO chapter/mention of Mughal slavery accounts! @madhukishwar (1/9)

Mughals & their predecessor-predatory Sultans, specialized in Slave taking - not only to stock-up for their Harems, Eunuch soldiers, Pederasty & gen purpose work - they also happily EXPORTED slaves to the Central Asian markets. (2/9)

In fact, apart from heavily benefiting from the Slave Trade of Hindus, Mughals even sent 'gifts' of slaves to appease their CentralAsian brethren.
For example, one of the many 'Slave gifting' deeds of the famous Mughals - Akbar & Jahangir is available for all of us to see! (3/9)

Since Hindus were of course Kaafirs, they were the ones very easily sold & were in demand as Slaves in the markets, just as in cattle markets.

There are ample records for them. (4/9)

Sufi mystics(!) had to spiritually liberate Hindus, by taking them as slaves.

Actually this is called 'Sufi man's Burden.' Like this, huge sacrifices were made by the Sufis for the sake of syncretism, ganga-jamuni tehzeeb & spiritual unity of mankind. (5/9)

A lot can be said about the Ghazna/Ghurid slave taking & by the Delhi Sultanates - in terms of lakhs of such wasted lives, but the point of the thread is about the Mughals.
Mughals CONTINUED to practice the same Slave taking of Hindus, as ordained in their Islamic doctrine. (6/9)

An example: A Uzbek Mughal noble Abdullah Khan during the Akbar's reign, and later in Jahangir's - was a Governor of the Kalpi & Kher area. (In UP, west of Kanpur)

In his area alone, he took 200, 000 women, little girls and boys as slaves. (for slave markets) (7/9)

Constant Mughal millitary expansions, and huge famines & impoverishment of the peasantry that happened because of the predatory policies of the Mughals - resulted in huge no of Hindu slaves being exported, internally displaced and what not! (8/n)

This Slave export trade from India, seems to have actually declined along with the decline of the rapacious misrule of the Mughals (but Iranian slaves seem to have increased!) - and with Russia taking over the territories, finally ended... (9/9)

The contributions of the hapless & accursed Hindu slaves (the first Diaspora of the Hindus) towards the economies & cultures of Central Asia is considerable in terms of agriculture/plantations, architecture & much else...
All thanks to Islamists and of course, to Mughals!😡
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