The considerable weight of claims about Aurangzeb’s religious tolerance rest heavily on one obscure scholar's writings. We know him merely as 'Jnan Chandra, Bombay.'
Sheesh Mahal in Delhi's Shalimar Bagh was built in 1653 by Izz-un-Nissa Begum, wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, as a tribute to the famed Shalimar Bagh in Kashmir.
Speaking in Bengaluru at Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the RSS General Secretary referred to Aurangzeb's return to mainstream political discourse in last few weeks.
Most of the conflicts in Maharashtra haven't been about Muslims worshipping Aurangzeb. They're about the perception of Hindus targeting Muslims and politicians fueling the divide.
Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.
With Washington issuing a third 30-day waiver for Russian crude cargoes at sea, India signals continuity in import strategy while ramping up purchases from Venezuela and other suppliers.
While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.
Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.
This showcases that when Mr. Ibn Khaldun Bharati tries his hand at counterfactual history, few can rival the quality of his thinking, the quality of his imagination, the quality of his writing. His understanding of the grandeur of Indic civilization is awesome, and this essay is glowing with his deep affinity for this great civilization. One can also sense his profound sense of loss regarding Dara Shukoh. What if Dara had not lost to Aurangzeb!
The wise will find it hard to miss how any vision of a ‘unified’ Bharata, ancient, medieval (‘Mughal’), or modern, is inevitably one infused with Sanatana values, ethics, and philosophy.
While this particular speculation on ‘what-if’ is more accurately ‘an exception that proves the rule’ (as Skanda’s comment below mine argues), it is high time that the Bharatiya public, left, right, centre, progressive or conservative, realised that the constructive way forward can only be Ramrajya.
This piece is essentially a mourning letter dressed as history. Every paragraph is calibrated to make you feel the loss of what could have been, rather than interrogate what actually was.
It never asks the more important question — why, in 1500 years, has the Dara template been repeatedly executed by its own people, while the Aurangzeb template gets mosques, textbooks, and street names? The answer makes this entire ‘What If’ exercise redundant.
This ‘What If Dara’ fantasy is the intellectual equivalent of citing one gentle wolf to defend the pack. The pack’s track record speaks louder.
Dara isn’t proof that Islam can reform. Dara is proof of what happens to Islam when it tries
This showcases that when Mr. Ibn Khaldun Bharati tries his hand at counterfactual history, few can rival the quality of his thinking, the quality of his imagination, the quality of his writing. His understanding of the grandeur of Indic civilization is awesome, and this essay is glowing with his deep affinity for this great civilization. One can also sense his profound sense of loss regarding Dara Shukoh. What if Dara had not lost to Aurangzeb!
The wise will find it hard to miss how any vision of a ‘unified’ Bharata, ancient, medieval (‘Mughal’), or modern, is inevitably one infused with Sanatana values, ethics, and philosophy.
While this particular speculation on ‘what-if’ is more accurately ‘an exception that proves the rule’ (as Skanda’s comment below mine argues), it is high time that the Bharatiya public, left, right, centre, progressive or conservative, realised that the constructive way forward can only be Ramrajya.
This piece is essentially a mourning letter dressed as history. Every paragraph is calibrated to make you feel the loss of what could have been, rather than interrogate what actually was.
It never asks the more important question — why, in 1500 years, has the Dara template been repeatedly executed by its own people, while the Aurangzeb template gets mosques, textbooks, and street names? The answer makes this entire ‘What If’ exercise redundant.
This ‘What If Dara’ fantasy is the intellectual equivalent of citing one gentle wolf to defend the pack. The pack’s track record speaks louder.
Dara isn’t proof that Islam can reform. Dara is proof of what happens to Islam when it tries