Reality Of Mughal Empire | The SHOCKING Untold Truth

Story time. Mughal rulers did a lot of amazing things for India. Imagine you go to restaurant and you see wait-worth Mughlai cuisine.

Even your humble samosa or jalebi was Introduced by Mughals. If any temples were destroyed during the war, they themselves used to repair the temples by spending their own money. Mughals came to India as conquerors.

But they stayed in India as Hindustani. They made India rich. Aurangzeb took a lot of important steps like forbidding Sati and banning cultivation of narcotics.

If you have done your studies in India, even though the kingdoms have ruled India or some sections of India, there's one particular kingdom among them, about which we read the most. It is not Rajput, not Maratha, not Maurya, not Gupta, not Chola, and not Ahoms. They are Mughals.

We are often told that during the Mughal rule a lot of brotherhood was promoted between Hindus and Muslims. Queen Karmavati to protect Chittor sent rakhi to Mughal Emperor Humayun. We are told that the Mughals were the original nation builders.

I think they were one of the original nation builders. You are, you don't know, but you are. We are told that he loved India and the Indian people very much.

And the Mughals by spending their earned resources in India had even made India very rich. But in the same Mughals, about whom we are taught the most, it was recently reported about them that they will probably be removed from our history text books. NCERT removes chapters on Mughal empire from class 12 history books.

We are being told that the NCERT has made modification to 12th standard history curriculum by eliminating the chapters that pertain to the Mughal empire. Some call it a great purge of key chapters in school history text books on everything from Mughal history to democracy and diversity. Mughal era was wiped out in Amrit Kaal.

So, let's talk about these issues in today's video. Were the Mughals nation builders? Did they love India and Indian people?

Did they make India rich by investing in India? Are Mughals being removed from Indian textbooks? And should they be removed?

Hello, hello and welcome to this episode of Sham Sharma Show. I am Sham Sharma, CEO of Secularism and a secular hello to all of you. So let's talk about the Mughals.

Those who built the Taj Mahal, built the Fatehpur Sikri, and did nothing wrong. For 200 years this land is under the rule of the Mughal Sultanate, will continue in the future too. No.

So, who were the Mughals? The Mughals were a Muslim dynasty with their origins in Central Asia. The Mughals conquered Northern India in the early 16th century, when Babur, the first Mughal ruler, defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi of Delhi at the Battle of Panipat in 1526.

From then till the middle of 18th century, for about 200-250 years the Mughals ruled a large part of India. Along with that, a lot of historical evidence also shows us that they destroyed many temples, reduced the non-Muslims to "Dhimmi" that is second-class citizens, and looted many resources of India. And their empire finally began to crumble in the mid-1700s.

When the Maratha leader Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked Aurangzeb and the Mughal rule and within 100 years under the leadership of the Peshwas, majority of the area that India lost to the intruders, that part of India was reclaimed by the Marathas. In taking back the lost areas of India it was not only the hand of the Marathas. Many heroes from every corner of India be it Rajput, Ahom, Jatt, Sikh, the Vijayanagara Empire, which basically became the Indian version of Avengers and everyone had a contribution in freeing India from the intruders.

But see that India which has a history of 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 years old, despite ruling a large part of that India for only 200 to 250 years, in our history textbooks, Mughals get disproportionate space in the same way, the way our masala media, gives disproportionate coverage to Urfi Javed. An organization named Public Policy Research Center had done a research on NCERT textbooks, in which they found that Akbar's name is mentioned 97 times in our textbooks. The names of Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb, and Jahangir are mentioned 30 times.

While Shivaji Maharaj has been mentioned only 8 times. And our historians have forgotten Rana Kumbha, Rana Sanga, and Maharana Pratap in the same way as Johnny Liver sometimes forgets in film Golmaal. In fact, historians like Ibn Battuta have been mentioned many times and Indian philosophers like Kautilya have also been largely ignored.

The temples of India which were destroyed by the Islamic infiltrators have also been ignored. And while several chapters are dedicated to the Mughals, only one page is given to the Maratha Empire. The entire Maratha dynasty was covered in just one page.

You have done a great favor sir. How will the Marathas repay this favor of yours? And the poor Ahoms seem to have to wait for 5 more years to get two paragraphs.

So along with the over representation in our history textbooks Mughals have always been presented, like good big-hearted rulers, who always used to spread cultural harmony. Who made India very rich. Who loved India very much.

When Muhammad Ghazni came, when he took the Punjab region under his control, so, there they all used to live harmoniously with each other. If any temples were destroyed during the war, they themselves used to repair the temples by spending their own money. .

So let's examine all these claims in today's video. See many people believe that the colonization in India was first done by the British, But this is incorrect. In our history when we talk about colonization then we just talk about European colonization.

But even 500 years before the British came to India it was already colonized once. And that is the untold Middle-Eastern colonization of India. And you might be surprised to know, that colonization was not much different from the British colonization.

This Middle-Eastern colonization can be divided into three parts. Colonization of governance. Political and administrative colonization.

Economic colonization and cultural colonization. And as we discuss these three types of colonizations, the question that remains whether the Mughals loved India, we will get the answer to that question too. So, let's talk about the first aspect of Middle-Eastern colonization.

It is claimed. . .

It is a fact, that Mughals came to India as conquerors. But they stayed in India as Hindustani. They made India rich.

But in this claim and reality, the difference is that of an Instagram photo and an original photo. In fact, the truth about Mughals is that many Mughals loved other countries more than India. The Mughals had spent a lot of money in foreign countries.

What happened was that when Babur got the power over Delhi, so first of all, Babur started spending Delhi's treasury among the people. But here comes the catch, not among the people of India rather, Babur spent the treasury only on Muslims. Like Samarkand, Khorasan, Mecca and Medina Mughal kings used to send large Haj contingents to Saudi Arabia and with that Hajj contingent, used to send a lot of money too.

In year 1576, along with the Mughal Hajj caravan going from Agra, a charity of 6 lakhs was dispatched. And what a huge price it was in those days, you can understand it from this, that in those days chariot drivers used to get ₹3. 5 a month and a barber used to get only 50 paise.

You may remember how the British used to impose very oppressive taxes on Indian agriculture and Indian farmers. Due to which the agricultural sector of India was ruined. But you might not know Even before the British, the Mughals used to loot almost 100% of the Indian farmer's crop.

In the Mughal state, land tax was almost the entire produce of the peasant. And we have so many foreign travelers coming and discussing and describing the state of the peasantry and the peasantry exploited. They tried to run away from their fields.

The Mughal state tries to bring them back. And all the surplus of the farmers, all the crop were distributed within the rich friends and ministers of the Mughals, majority of whom were non-Indians. This entire surplus of the countryside, it was distributed in the Mughal state among 1,600 people only.

And as we've discussed, they were relatives of the emperor, foreign nobility, etc. Not just right-wing sources, but also left-wing sources like Irfan Habib have also confirmed this. So, the British just copied and pasted the homework of the Mughals In fact economic historian, Angus Maddison also mentions the Mughal state was a parasite on India.

They only looted money from the public, but did not make any special investment in India. Just imposing heavy taxes on their people they kept getting rich. According to French historian, François Bernier, Due to an exploitative agricultural practices of the Mughals India's agricultural industry was suffering very badly.

And because of this, many farmers became beggars from farmers, or went to cities to become daily wage laborers. And in a country like India where famine used to occur very rarely, famine became a common feature. But see in all fairness, I think to say that the Mughals did nothing for agriculture it is a bit unfair.

The Mughals had actually built a huge canal, that completely changed the geography of the area and that area changed from a desert to completely green and that area… Was not in India but in Iraq. Tell me, this a great middle finger to India that in 250 years, you did not build a single canal in India but by building a big canal in Iraq's Najaf made that area green. The same Mughals who on the occasion of Nowruz used to gift ₹20 lakhs to the wife and ₹50 lakhs to the daughter, When a severe famine hit parts of Golconda, Ahmednagar, Gujarat, and Malwa in India, killing an estimated 7.

4 million people, then how did the Mughals help their subjects? They gave just ₹1 lakh to the people affected by the famine. Yes to all, no to each, everyone together.

What a gesture merciful God, just control. And because the Mughals by plundering their subjects enriched themselves that's why India's GDP was also suffering. India's share of world GDP used to be 32.

54% before Mughals and by the end of Mughal rule India's share of world GDP had fallen to 16%. And you can see in this graph even in historical terms, when the Mughal Empire was at its peak, India's share in world GDP was already down than before. In fact, not just economy rather, during the Mughal rule scientific research was also hurt.

Before the Mughals you see the scientific achievements of India. See how many great scientific minds India had produced. Be it Aryabhata, Bhaskara, Brahmagupta, Mahavira, Varahamihira, but after the arrival of the Mughals, unfortunately, the scientific research in India and the scientific minds in India, they basically disappeared.

So, as claimed that the Mughals made India rich, that claim is as inaccurate as on your Tinder profile the facts about you are inaccurate. Now let's discuss Middle-Eastern Colonialism's second part Now see if Mughals loved India and Indian people, So would have expressed it as well. So let's see how the Mughals expressed their love.

Babur wrote in his autobiography that India is not a good country and the people of India are also very ugly in appearance. Babur was very angry with the fact that India is full of only infidel Hindus. Aurangzeb also considered Hindus to be inferior to Muslims.

Babur's grandson Akbar, who is considered the greatest Mughal king, even he in his military campaigns brutally massacred many Hindus. For example, once they killed so many Hindus in Chittor, that the weight of the sacred thread of those Hindus was 75 manas, one mana is equal to 40 kgs. So how many people were killed, do that math yourself.

Akbar's son Jahangir also followed in his father's footsteps, and destroyed many temples because he believed that the Hindu religion was worthless. And he believed that by demolishing these temples, he was showing the greatness of Islam. He also wrote these things in his autobiography.

If this is love then Gabbar also loved Thakur's family very much. If this is love, then Hitler also loved the Jews very much. If this is love, even then Europeans had great love for Native Americans.

You know what Churchill once said about Indians I Hate Indians, Churchill once wrote. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. You tell me that what Babur, Jahangir, Aurangzeb have said about Indians, how is it different from what Churchill said about Indians?

And the love of Mughals towards India is also proved by the fact that when Babur made Mughal rule in India, majority bureaucrats and administrators were not Indian, but Iranian and Central Asian. Despite this, their population was only 1% in India. One was Iranis from Iran and the other was Central Asians or Turanis.

The entire ministry was dominated only by these two groups. There was no question of accommodating or giving space to any Indian Muslim or Rajput or whoever. The same system remained under Humayun.

Power was not shared with the Indians. Akbar finally went and shared power with some Rajputs and Indian Muslims as well. But due to political reasons, he had to do so.

He was all the time threatened with revolts by other foreign groups who said they are from more distinguished families, why should we not sit on the throne of Hindustan. That is when Akbar realized that all the weight of the scale is on one side and we must have some weight on the other side. He chose two groups.

One is the Rajputs and the other is the Indian Muslims. Even despite that. But the composition of the ruling class in the Mughal period remained 70% foreign-born Muslims and 30-15% Rajputs and 15% Indian Muslims.

In the same way, even the British copied and pasted the administration of the Mughals in India. Even the British Indian administration of the British, was 100% European initially. In 1912, they finally allowed some Indians in the administration.

Despite that, 40% of the offices in the British Administration were reserved only for Europeans. And in the Mughal society, those Muslims who were born of Rajput mother were not given respect and good position. Let's talk about the third thing about cultural colonization.

The mughals used to celebrate non-Indian festivals like Nowruz with great fanfare. Shah Jahan had become the emperor and in honor of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, he kept a big feast, in which all the royal families were a part of, and there they were given gifts and titles. And if the Mughals loved India, the people of India, the culture of India as much as we are told, then they would have adopted Indian languages in their administration, such as Hindawi, Sanskrit, Pali, Braj.

But the Mughals in their court, adopted Persian as the administrative language. And Persian was made the administrative language by Akbar the Great. Akbar whom we refer so much, he was the first person who said Persian will be the language of administration at all levels.

And Akbar made it compulsory that all Indian Hindus and Muslims in the Mughal administration, will have to learn Persian. Exactly the same way the British forced English and English education on Indians in India. Familiarly acquainted with English literature, the Indian would speak of the great Englishman with the same enthusiasm as the British themselves.

The English policy was to use English language and English education to create such Indians who are brown in skin but English in mind. Do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the billions whom we govern. A class of persons, Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.

You can see that the Mughals also did the same thing. But just like you delete your browser history every day, all this information has been deleted from our textbooks. Not only was the Persian language imposed on India by the Mughals, but Central Asian and Middle-Eastern architecture was also forced on India.

Architecture, it was the rule in the Mughal period, every lane, by-lane, highway should be dominated only by mosques. Till now we have not even mentioned that how many temples were destroyed by the Mughals in India. According to historian Sitaram Goyal, Islamic infiltrators have destroyed around 40,000 temples in India.

Including Ram Mandir, Kashi Vishwanath, Mathura, Bhima Devi, Chausath Yogini Mandir and you remember the clip I showed you earlier. If any temples were destroyed during the war, they themselves used to repair the temples by spending their own money. So to know the evidence of this information, an RTI was filed that what proof do you have of this claim?

And listen to his answer. Don't have, no evidence sorry, just wrote the chapter. Fan fiction is being written in NCERT textbooks.

And if you are writing fan fiction, then even Nehru ji must be thinking that if on the basis of our desires we were writing things in history textbooks, then would have written the story of me and Edwina's desires too. And remember that Mughals like Babur and Aurangzeb also imposed Jizya tax on Hindus. Which on non-Muslims is an extra tax imposed just for being non-Muslim.

And you see how inspirational the Mughals were. Aurangzeb inspired people so much that almost 300 years after Aurangzeb's death, ISIS, like Aurangzeb, used to put a mark on the house of non-Muslims and collect extra money from them because they were non-Muslims. This is an inspirational man.

Even after 300 years of his death he continues to inspire people. So, if you are ever feeling depressed in life, then at least stop for a second and thank God that at least I was not born in the Mughal rule. So we have seen till now that Mughals were oppressing Indians economically, culturally, and politically.

So our original question was, did the Mughals love India and the people of India? The answer is that the Mughals loved India and the people of India as much as Salman Khan loves Vivek Oberoi. Now see, clearly all the Mughals were not like this.

Akbar may have done it just out of political considerations, but at least he included Indian Hindus and Indian Muslims in the government. He tried to make a better relationship between Hindus and Muslims. He developed an ideology called Din-i Ilahi, which tried to be a more tolerant form of Islam.

Along with that we also have the eldest son of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb's brother, Dara Shikoh's example. Dara Shikoh had a lot of faith in Sufi Ideology and along with that was also highly interested in Hindu literature. So he also translated many Sufi texts and Upanishads into Persian.

He wanted that both Sufism and Hinduism are two different ways of going towards the same truth and hence he wanted to create harmony between Hindus and Muslims. Just imagine, if instead of Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh had become the king of Mughal rule, India would have been so different then. The Muslim community of India and the Indian subcontinent would have been so different.

The relationship between Hindus and Muslims would have been so different today. This secret too went with him. But unfortunately, historically we have too many examples of how the Mughals treated India and the people of India like step-brothers.

Many liberal Mughals also destroyed many temples and killed many innocent Hindus. But in spite of all this information, it is shown as a very good and great kingdom. So how did this happen?

How did this information get into our textbooks? See, I have already made a video about this, which you can watch by clicking here or here. But in a nutshell, after independence, Islamists like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Communists like Nurul Hasan were given the reins of Indian education and because of that in Indian textbooks a very biased version of history was shown.

So now let's talk about the news that Mughals are being removed from history textbooks? See, the Mughals are not being removed, but some chapters about the Mughals which are repeating the information, that information has been removed. Exercise that has been undertaken, to drop certain chapters, which are related to the Mughals are a part of syllabus rationalization, so the NCERT cites overlapping and irrelevance as reason, when we talk about the dropping off of the chapters.

Basically, this is an attempt to reduce the load on the children so that the children have more free time. That means in the coming months, Rahul Gandhi ji will have 2-3 extra hours to watch Chhota Bheem. So the Mughal history is not being removed, rather it is being made a little more concise.

So even last year the rationalization process was done. This chapter is there even now, it is being taught. Better than giving the names of kings and their dates, who were the kings and what work they did, gave that.

In fact, Cold War and American History related chapters in India, which repeat information are also being removed. American Hegemony in World Politics and The Cold War Era are both omitted from this book. But see there are some people in India who might be of the opinion that because Mughals were not good kings and Mughal Kingdom was not a good Kingdom, then they should be removed from our history books.

Do I agree with this? No, absolutely not. I believe that every child of India should be taught on about Mughal Raj, but they should be told true history, unbiased history about Mughal rule.

In our NCERT textbooks the way British colonization is taught, in the same way Middle-Eastern colonization should also be taught. Unfortunately, even in the rationalized NCERT textbooks, the truth of Mughals is not being taught. They are teaching how the Mughals developed the Agrarian Society.

But how Indian agriculture was destroyed, they are not teaching that. It is the same thing that if we write a history book about Gabbar and remove all the other information from it, only show that Gabbar Singh loved Holi very much. Always used to ask about Holi.

When is Holi, when is Holi, when? Look, I agree that our society needs two things in our textbooks. Firstly, we should teach Mughal history, but we should teach honest and true history.

We should teach Mughal history in the same way as children in Germany are taught the history of Nazi Germany with complete honesty. These young Germans, Christians, Jews, and Muslims visited Auschwitz, where some of the worst atrocities of the Shoah took place. Millions of Jews were murdered here.

There are growing calls to mandate that refugees and Muslim migrants visit concentration camps, to help improve their understanding of Germany's terrible past and its echoes today. The way America's left wing today is talking honestly about racist confederates. The confederacy was fighting for the preservation of slavery and that's not my opinion.

That is just a fact. Because of this I hope that the way Shashi Tharoor ji goes to England today and talks about English colonialism. Violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the sun never set on the British Empire, because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark.

In the same way people in future also talk about Mughal colonialism. And secondly in our history textbooks, those who are our indigenous kings, those who are our indigenous warriors, those who sacrificed their lives and bravely faced the outside invaders, to save our country and our country's culture, they should also get more space. Marathas who ended Mughal power completely in India, they should get space.

Undefeated Rana Kumbha who defeated all three, Delhi, Gujarat, and Malwa Sultanates. He should get space. Our Sikh Gurus who freed Punjab from the clutches of Mughals and Afghans.

They should get space. King Prithu of Assam and his general Lachit Borphukan who defeated the Mughals 17 times and did not let them step into the North East even once. They should get a place.

Maharana Pratap, who alone faced the Mughals when all the kingdoms around him were surrendering to the Mughals. He should get a place. The Reddy Kingdom of Andhra who defended Andhra Pradesh against the Delhi Sultanate.

They should get a place. King Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagar in whose Vijayanagar Empire, Indian culture was thriving, when it was being killed in Northern India. He should get more space.

So finally, I want to ask you, do you believe that Mughals loved India, loved the people of India, and were a good kingdom? Yes or no please let me know in the comment section below. If you want to see how our history textbooks got so much misinformation, be sure to check out the video by clicking here.

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