In his own writing of letter to Jai Singh Shivaji Maharaj tells how he desires to remove Mahomedanism from Deccan. Ever read that letter? I’m posting snippets.
#ShivajiMaharaj tells that his sword is only thirsty for the blood of Mussalmans & calls them Rakshasas.
He asks Jai Singh to help remove Islam from root and branch. Read these highlighted parts.
Further #ShivajiMaharaj makes clear in his letter that he has issues with Mussalmans ruling the country of Bharat & prime motive should be to protect:
•Hindus
•Hindusthan
•Hindu Dharma
And then #ShivajiMaharaj tells Jai Singh about his desires to shower swords on the Mussalmans & to vacate Mahomedanism from Deccan.
2/n Here are snippets from letter of Shivaji to Jai Singh where he mentions that he is disheartened that swords of Hindus would be against at each other just because one has chosen to side with Muslims.
He talks of how his sword thirsts for blood of Musalmaans.
3/n Why would he specify Musalamaan & Hindu had he was not clear about his views.
He also says that there Turks are like Rakshasas in the guise of being Adharmik men.
1/n Absolutely. The Vijaynagar Empire came into being as a mission to give Hindu response to invading Muslim Forces.
If I to believe assessment by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, one of the most celebrated expert in History of South. Vijayanagar Empire=Resistance to Islamic Colonialism
2/n At the end of chapter on Vijayanagar Empire Sastri concludes that the rulers of this house did take up task to preserve Hindu political and social order that was being destroyed by Islam.
From book, "A History of South India
from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar
3/n Now let me bring forth more facts right from the same book in form of snippets.
Let's look at the story around Harihara & Bukka, the founders of Vijayanagara Empire.
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Being a regular follower of @BeerBicepsGuy show, came across a podcast with Prof Mohsin Khan.
Though he seemed honest, abundant points made by him were wrong,given recent researches.
The moment he said Buddha was from Scythian lineage, it became a red flag for me.
Prof said so from this point that Gautam Buddha is called “Sakya Muni.”
Prof Khan’s confusion lies because his readings (as it seemed from podcast) is only relies largely on linguistics & hypotheses propagated by the likes of Michael Witzel & Beckwith.
Michael Witzel & Christopher Beckwith without any evidence based his hypothesis of indicating Shakyas = Central Asian Iranic nomads Scythians (as called by the Greeks), because they are addressed as Sakās by the Achaemenid Persians.
You should have cared to read what exactly Irfan Habib has produced based on Ain-i-Akbari.
Prof Habib had clearly spoken of subas not aligning mentioned in Italics, hence no Jama from them.
If you exclude them, total area is 0.85 million sq miles. Check explanation.
2/n This map shows till maximum extent of Akbar. At peak it was around 0.75 million square miles. It was 1/5.5 th of Mauryan peak. Not even 30% of what Hindustan had been seen as by Babur.
3/n Till 1635, Timurids hardly could hardly go beyond Vindhyas & towards east. By 1680 Marathas were quite small. But