What was akbars policy towards hindus

They are ruling. They have crippled India. Yet another sweeping comment where your usual inability to identify cause and effect are bared for all. Of course fuelled by your congenital hatred of Hindus and Hinduism.

And certainly much better than the Pakistans, Afghanistans, Irans, Egypts, Saudi Arabias, Bangladeshes and other Islamic paradises which you presumably prefer. But the evidence so far from the Chinas, Malaysias, Singapores, Indonesias etc. India is no paradise and under the forces of Hindutva, it is departing from the ideals of democracy, secularism and separation of powers that it was founded upon. As regards your claim that Brahmins have enslaved India and have crippled the country, well, that in itself is a figment of your fetid imagination rather than facts on the ground.

India still goes to the polls and people have chosen their political representatives. And those political representatives, Brahmin or otherwise have not taken away your right to free speech, obnoxious though it may be right? My heartfelt compliments to The Print who are probably the only news platform so willing to be what every news portal should be: an unbiased platform for dissemination on legit information and opinions, keyword being unbiased.

Thank you. It started from majorily left leaning platform and has come at almost centre, covering opinions and facts in an unbiased manner. Good to see this, will start reading its articles now. Gupta Ji, please give same suggestions to your old school as well. In your title of the article you have taken direct name of chatrapati shivaji maharaj..

Congress distorted the history. Moghuls are ruth less killers. No one is secular all of them are islamists. What is this brouhaha? Of course, Moguls were invaders, tyrants and oppressors of worst kind. Having said this, they had some positive points too but these positive points fades in comparison to their atrocities. That history was written on the direction of the then government of India, for political purposes as all the Delhi roads were named after those invaders.

It is like destroying thousands of temples and constructing one temple,killing all males and marrying their wives? This is pure nonsense He says why mughals didnt build Taj mahal in Arab countries?????

Seriously have he completely lost it Mughals after Babur were Indians we can have a argument who was good emperor who is not. Were is the evidence right wigher authors claim does not becomes facts. And off course you will not talk about the temples which were made during Mughal rule eg:- vishwanath temple which was made by raja maan singh during akbar regin and yes it was destroyed by Aurangzeb. The heavy donations to temples , priests.

Relaxation from jaziya for poors, women , children, preits includes hindu. If Mughals use to hate hindus why didnt they demolished all historic Temples. Just tell me one thing does the writer of this article knows the meaning of mythology and history???

And what about the hindu administration in Mughal courts who were holding senior posts Yes some muslim rulers torned down few dozen temples but most of them were politically motivated not because of Hindu hate. From a hindu Ritul raj.

Well said Indian. The comment of Mr Ritul Raj is one of the few sensible ones here. A lone voice of sanity. The author has given ample references for his arguments. We r not interested only in seeing the actions of mutual with contempt. And we r not going to become far right either by provocations from far left either.

But will counter false narratives with data, logic ,evidences… If you come up counter arguments backed by evidences , then it becomes a discussio. This mental retard Razgolla seems to be suffering from some severe inferiority complex. If he actually goes back into his lineage he might discover how his forefathers were tortured …and ancestors raped and converted like millions other in India, for him to so beautifully justify hate and crime committed by outside invaders against India.

Am not even sure he is Indian.. Hope the lieks of him are thrown into the dustbins of history. If this true, the converts must be rushing back to embrace Hinduism. Let the converts say what you say. The fact is no convert wants to return to the system of graded inequality.

In fact, Hindus want to leave and convert, and you are threatening them. The author mixes dubious mythology with classic Golwalkarian Hindutva and passes that off as history. And bhakths fall for this claptrap hook, line and sinker. The seeds of destruction of India are being sown all over the country by the many Aabhas Maldahiyars that come out of the Hindutva woodwork. Vishwanath temple existed before hand and was destroyed before.

Also one must look at overall contribution Mughals made to India. Remember that India was already far more developed and civilized, that is why it attracted these barbarians over. Praising mughals would be akin to praising Hitler, whose reign also saw the economic progress of Germany.

It is because of the monumental crimes that were orchestrated in his regime. And does it matter if it were 40, or 50, or even 5, temples? The fact is that there is documented evidence of an astounding number of universities, temples and Vihars being destroyed over the entire Indian subcontinent during the Mughal rule.

And so, in , when the country was headed towards economic ruin even before the COVID crisis, when China is grabbing Indian territory, the COVID crisis is taking its toll on the health of citizens, the topic that Indians focus on is Mughal history.

Excellent article. The left historians have been peddling lies for long and the main stream media provided them the platform. They have destroyed the real history. You made an argument, I countered. Let the readers decide whom among us is right. Sorry, I made the earlier statement about censorship in error. You printed my response and you deserve credit for this. People like Zainab need to be confronted with the truth.

What a piece of utter tripe. Judging history for m the lens of modern times is easy, the slavery , the extortion by rulers existed across cultures and continents in those times. The Indian republic is secular and the tyranny of Mughals is the same as the extortionist taxes like chauth imposed by the Marathas.

What matters is that we accept historical events in a secular spirit and spread religious tolerance. The need of the hour is to raise skill levels amongst our youth and compete with modern economies like china, us ,EU. Jai hind. What you mean is Indians should be pro Muslim, kind to the illegal Muslims from Bangladesh and other countries, and so on. Muslim countries , Pakistan and Bangladesh, can carry on torturing their Hindus as much as they like and Indian Muslims never say a word against them.

After all, all are part of the same Ummah. Correct, but they are unable to achieve that. So they prefer wallowing in historical revanchism.

Around AD, that is the time of Mahmud of Ghazni, England was attacked by William the Conqueror from France, who enslaved them and burnt and pillaged. But England recovered, became educated and learned, and went on to become a world famous country with impact. They have been forward looking, so the evolved. Other people are backward looking, and generally they lead to failed countries. India is heading that way. Great reply! It needs to be understood clearly by all parties that Hindus holding contempt for the Mughals is no form of bigotry or a special case of unsecular intolerance.

It is a reaction far more pacified than what you would get if people went around celebrating Andrew Jackson in America justifying his actions against the native Americams, and I am making a stupid analogy of atrocities of two incidents completely incomparable in scales! That Islamic was the flag under which the invaders ruled and killed is but an unfortunate episode but everyone should be allowed to study the subject with a degree of objectivity.

The current day Muslims hardly have anything to do with these invaders, most of them are Pasmundas in the first place, Hindus that converted to Islam over time.

The only thing that differntiates an Indian Muslim from an Indian Hindu is faith, and any debate holding one another accountable shouldbbe done in context if modern faith alone. It was still a befitting reply. It also feels good to have an emerging media house which actually tries to be truly liberal. My only demand is that there are scholars which should be given equal opportunity to reply to such scholars too.

Or you are simply pseudo secular liberal, tainting name of those who actually are secular liberals. He was not sure of Turanian nobles loyalty. As a politician he built bridges with Rajputs by inducting them as his sword arm. Waiving off Jaziya bought off loyalty of Hindus in Dilli and Agra. Fact remains Rajputs always guarded Mughal emperor palaces right upto times of Farrukhsiyar. They defended Moghuls against both internal and external enemies. The writer has used his bigoted views to cloud his interpretation of history.

Let me challenge each of the arguments he makes against Akbar- 1 Monserrate wrote that Muslims have destroyed numerous temples but nowhere does he wrote that this was done by Akbar.

The destroyed temples were the result of centuries of Muslim rule. Once destroyed and mosques were built on it, it became impossible to reclaim them back as temples even for Akbar or anybody else. It means a warrior for Islam. In those ancient every Muslim king was called ghazi by their Muslim followers, whether they believed that concept or not. However, actions speak louder than words. If the Muslims considered Akbar a ghazi, then why such a huge outcry when din-I-ilahi was announced in Why do so many mullah s revolt and called him a heretic.

If that was true why did Badauni complain so much in his writings that Akbar showed favoritism to Hindus and that his Hindu wives exerted too much influence on Akbar. In fact Badauni was a religious bigot and the worst critic of Akbar. His writings are filled with instances of Akbar discriminating against Muslims and showing too much regard for Hindus. Again if the killing of cows was regular practice then why did Akbar ban the killing of cows. The banning of cow slaughter by Akbar is a verifiable historical fact.

You have very convinently here cast your imagination of Akbar as a benevolent king keen on restoring Hindu temples once lost in the oppressive Islamic rule of his predecessors. I would press you to read just a some dozen pages of the primary source Akbarnama which I did read, to reconsider whether Akbar indeed was such a great man as you think of him to be.

A Muslim is, imo, much more prone to celebrating a warrior king who killed infidel kaffirs and humiliated them in scores in his Islamic rule as Ghazi, a military champion of Islam, than worship him as a literally new founder of a shining faith, the act which is considered clearly haram by Islam. I would argue many Mullahs around the world and, some even in India argued Osama-bin-Laden was a Shaheed, but even they would discard him as a haram man if he declared the start of a new faith.

Lets consider some examples of mullahs from Pakistan, a nation which has produced the largest number of radical rectums imo. Many if them protested and alleged their Islamic Government of favoritism to Hindus and organised a huge outcry when the government annulled a law that almost legalised forced conversion in Pakistan, 4 years ago.

Are the laws in Pakistan anywhere near secular in nature even today for us to consider Pakistan a safe haven for non-muslims? What Badauni alleged favouritism in his writings were simply Akbar making political concessions to stabilise and incentivise Rajput submission and him giving him to lust. His hatred for kafirs, again, can be confirmed in a more scholarly primary source, the Akbarnama.

No king was saint and benevolent not akbar and nor any other hindu,sikh, Buddhist ruler. Every one was politically ambitious and wanted to expand his kingdom. Akbarnama is primary source which is flattering akbar. You should read what Jesuits had written against him. How he razed down mosques and banned quaran in Agra to fight against orthodox islam in His letters are still available you can check his language against akbar. Pakistan has never respected akbar the way they respect even looter like gazni.

Akbar is conveniently ignored from history books of Pakistan just because his tolerance whereas Aurangzeb, babur are considered hero. Amateur historians should leave history to professional historians. Cherry picking history to buttress your point of view is ridiculous. You just wrote a page criticising the Amateur Historian, as someone with no verifiable authority ir background.

Why did you write it if you believe in the gatekeeping of such fields? K Muhammad was an established historian, he was almost excommunicated from this gatekeeping fold just because he seemed to speak what others of his kind did not like.

Everyone has the right to raise a point, people can always decide whether to follow or agree, or not. Not sure about Prayagraj being years old unless it is a typography error and should be years.

Rest of the article is spot on. The truth is that Akbar did start of as a Ghazi and was no less a religious fanatic then his descendants and ancestors. But to give credit to him he did have an epiphany at some point in life which finally made him see the light. Even Gandhi made mistakes early on in life. As for Mughals they were as Indian as the rest, considering they were all born in this geography and were greatly influenced by the local culture.

Some may even have been born to non-Muslim mothers. As Indians roads,monuments and institutions can be named after them. But they were definitely not epitomes of enlightenment. But I guess Indians have always been more interested in building temples and mosques rather then schools, colleges, universities and hospitals.

Indians had universities way before any other country or region had. Most temple in villages supported a school on its funds. Not a typo, India is now heading towards a sad fascist demise, the majority will now believe whatever without fact checking.

Mugals and Muslims are not the same! I suppose the Mugals can be considered a sub set of Muslims. Those days are gone when a closed group of intellectuals used to create and control the narrative history. As more and more common people started reading in detail, we realize how we have been fooled by a smoke screen. After independence we had a chance to build the foundation on the basis of truth but our so called intellectuals tried to deceive the poor and uneducated people with fake narratives.

The start based on truth would have been a bit ugly but eventually the scars would have healed and vanished with time. Now, we have scope for fabricators of history to write mythologies and get them accepted. There is also scope to have a forged degree, and get elected as PM. Hindus have advanced India over the Mughals and the British, and have become the vishwa guru. There are already enough Hindus the world admire. Unfortunately, none of them are real Hindutva Hindus! You murdered one of them, so you cannot use his name to boost Hindus.

I like how open ThePrint is. Speech is certainly freer in this platform. Most educated souls in this planet belong to one community only. And they are not Christians, Hindus or Jews. I see you are linking in Christians and Jews to cover your own hollowness.

Gomutra drinkers are only from one community. Can you explain that? Two years back, there was an interfaith conference in Canada. I read an article written by a Hindutva Hindu who went to represent Hindus. He complained that Hindus were not given equal weighting — his grievance was Christians, Jews and Muslims were given equal weighting!

And he suggested how Hindus need to go better prepared next time. The inferiority complex is unbelievable. An eye opener article indeed. We had enough of these sickulars who have been peddling lies in our text books.

These Mughals are a blot on our history. It is really shameful to learn about these bigot bastards. Right from the Imperial Historians, ably, ideologically and zealously assisted by our very own Eminent but discredited Historians, to the present-day Apologists and Distortionists spawned by the Liberal Media, the wanton genocide of facts and the massacre of Truth only reflects, imitates and carries forward the well-documented Iconoclasm of their forbears.

Why there are Indians like Zainab who want to forget our heritage, history and culture. Muslims and Mughals are not same. Open Access for Authors.

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While Humayan was certainly disastrous as a ruler, his love of poetry and culture heavily influenced his son Akbar, and helped to make the Mughal Empire an artistic power as well as a military one.

The third Emperor, Abu Akbar, is regarded as one of the great rulers of all time, regardless of country. Akbar succeeded to the throne at 13, and started to recapture the remaining territory lost from Babur's empire. By the time of his death in he ruled over most of north, central, and western India. Akbar worked hard to win over the hearts and minds of the Hindu leaders. While this may well have been for political reasons - he married a Hindu princess and is said to have married several thousand wives for political and diplomatic purposes - it was also a part of his philosophy.

Akbar believed that all religions should be tolerated, and that a ruler's duty was to treat all believers equally, whatever their belief. He established a form of delegated government in which the provincial governors were personally responsible to him for the quality of government in their territory.

Akbar's government machine included many Hindus in positions of responsibility - the governed were allowed to take a major part in the governing.

Akbar also ended a tax jizya that had been imposed on non-Muslims. This discriminatory tax had been much resented, and ending it was a popular move.

An innovation was the amount of autonomy he allowed to the provinces. For example, non-Muslims were not forced to obey Islamic law as was the case in many Islamic lands , and Hindus were allowed to regulate themselves through their own law and institutions.

The Emperor proclaimed an entirely new state religion of 'God-ism' Din-i-ilahi - a jumble of Islamic, Hindu, Christian and Buddhist teaching with himself as deity. It never spread beyond his court and died when he did. Fatehpur Sikri was the new capital built by Akbar, as a part of his attempt to absorb other religions into Islam. Fatehpur Sikri is a synthesis of Hindu and Islamic architecture.

Akbar's son, Emperor Jahangir, readopted Islam as the state religion and continued the policy of religious toleration. His court included large numbers of Indian Hindus, Persian Shi'a and Sufis and members of local heterodox Islamic sects. Jahangir also began building the magnificent monuments and gardens by which the Mughals are chiefly remembered today, importing hundreds of Persian architects to build palaces and create magnificent gardens.

Jahangir's approach was typified by the development of Urdu as the official language of Empire. Urdu uses an Arabic script, but Persian vocabulary and Hindi grammatical structure. The architectural achievements of the Mughals peaked between and , during the reign of Jahangir's successor Jahan. Jahan commissioned the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal marks the apex of the Mughal Empire; it symbolises stability, power and confidence.

The building is a mausoleum built by Jahan for his wife Mumtaz and it has come to symbolise the love between two people. Jahan's selection of white marble and the overall concept and design of the mausoleum give the building great power and majesty. Jahan brought together fresh ideas in the creation of the Taj. Many of the skilled craftsmen involved in the construction were drawn from the empire. Many also came from other parts of the Islamic world - calligraphers from Shiraz, finial makers from Samrkand, and stone and flower cutters from Bukhara.