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Anirudh Kanisetti is a public historian. He is the author of ‘Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire’, and the award-winning ‘Lords of the Deccan’. He hosts the Echoes of India and Yuddha podcasts. He tweets @AKanisetti and is on Instagram @anirbuddha.
they also go to toilet … thats also common
1. Jonaraja (1389-1459) didn’t see Harsha’s and Sikandar Shah Miri’s predecessors’ time. When Sikandar’s rule ended in 1413, He was 23/24. He could not compare Harsha’s and Sikandars’ act ‘explicitly’.
Also, you yourself wrote: ‘Temple desecration surged under Sultan Sikandar (r. 1389-1413)…’
2. Even reading between your lines, motives were really different. Harsha needed money to keep strong military to fight ‘unruly’ elites.
You wrote: ‘In king Harsha’s 11th century struggles with his nobles, rich temples were a casualty’. In which struggle of Sikandars, temples became casuality?
3. Zain listened to Jonarajas explaining Sanskrit texts. Does it make him a Sanskrit speaker?
4. Can’t ‘Avatar of Vishnu’ title to Zain be oiling patron’s tongue by an employee?
5. You wrote: ‘… medieval sources are always biased, and we always misinterpret them to suit us’. You successfully kept yourself in this ‘we’.
6. The Print is publishing like a wow!
In today’s era of internet, knowledge open to all, these sort of twisted narratives won’t survive. They’ll survive and thrive within the leftist circle for sure but not in general public.
Very good
Can not uplift one, then downgrade the other so that somehow both become equal.
This article is aimed at creating rift between Brahamins and other castes.
You will be successful to a great extent in your endeavour.
Very difficult read. Not easy to follow, Pls simplify this note.