There seems to be a systematic effort to whitewash the crimes and barbarism of the brutal Mughal rules of India and glorifying them as the patron saint of secularism. Earlier this year, Huffpost carried an article which claimed Aurangzeb was actually a victim of character assassination by Right wingers on social media.
Aurangzeb wasn’t the bigot India’s right wingers make him out to be on social media https://t.co/HqddpUM0eL pic.twitter.com/rT4G5jdclS
— HuffPost India (@HuffPostIndia) March 28, 2017
Huffpost got mocked for the ridiculous sounding claim which cited Audrey Truschke, who regularly indulges in glamorising Aurangzeb.
Lovely image of #Aurangzeb enthroned, for sale at Sotheby’s. Somewhat disastrous catalogue note. https://t.co/Y768ucBNl4
— Audrey Truschke (@AudreyTruschke) October 14, 2017
#Aurangzeb was a complicated, premodern, Indian Mughal king. #brevity https://t.co/ikJ1W51E3m
— Audrey Truschke (@AudreyTruschke) September 2, 2017
While Truschke maintains that Aurangzeb wasn’t secular, she has regularly tried to soften his hatred for Hinduism by showing how he dismissed all religious celebrations and traditions equally. Recently, following the Supreme Court’s order on banning sale of firecrackers for Diwali in Delhi NCR till 1st November, lot of people shared an order allegedly passed by the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb in 1667 banning fireworks in Diwali.
Left: Aurangzeb’s order banning fireworks on Diwali .1667
Right: 350 years later, Supreme Court of India bans fireworks on Diwali (2017)It is not even original anymore pic.twitter.com/TvUUm1Hh3s
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) October 9, 2017
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Aurangzeb Defence League captain Audrey Truschke immediately got into action to show how people are being unnecessarily harsh on the paragon of peace and equal hater of all things religion.
Lots of concern right now with #Aurangzeb‘s restrictions on #Diwali. Did you know he also clamped down on #Eid, #Holi, and #Muharram?
— Audrey Truschke (@AudreyTruschke) October 11, 2017
She was again called out on her whitewashing of Aurangzeb’s Hindu-hate.
2) Muharram was a Shia mourning festival. To a Sunni bigot like Aurangzeb, Muharram was intolerable
Festival was banned. Any mansabdar found participating in Muharram had his rank degraded
Anybody suspected of abusing Prophet’s companions(whom Shias see as usurpers) was beheaded pic.twitter.com/mMnZyFEom6— True Indology (@TrueIndology) October 14, 2017
Aurangzeb was a Sunni Muslim and while Muharram is observed by Shias and Sunnis, it is observed to far lesser extent in Sunnis.
Eid:@AudreyTruschke claims that Aurangzeb clamped down on Eid. When asked for reference, she claims she has provided it in her book on Aurangzeb
This is a LIE.She surely reiterates this claim in her book on Aurangzeb, but there is NO REFERENCE pic.twitter.com/HIKwFqqIz8
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) October 14, 2017
“Read my book” is also how abusive troll masquerading as journalist, Swati Chaturvedi, tries to sell her biopic book I am a Troll.
How can one cite a reference to their own book which has no other reference as proof to claims that Aurangzeb clamped down even on Eid celebrations? Especially when Aurangzeb celebration Eid with a lot of plomp and glory?
Italian traveler Niccolao Manucci, who had worked in the court of Aurangzeb, described how Aurangzeb celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Zuha were with all pomp and glory pic.twitter.com/VLSVHI2U3v
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) October 14, 2017
Aurangzeb celebrated Eid so ardently that he constructed special Eidgahs where prayers were offered only on the two Eid days
He held pompous Darbars on Eid and presented himself enthroned to assembled multitude
There is no absolutely evidence that he banned or restricted Eid pic.twitter.com/eKEWfEVuiG
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) October 14, 2017
What he did ban, was images/idols of animals and birds as they were unlawful.
What Aurangzeb actually banned was not Eid. On Eid, images/idols of animals, birds and humans were made to delight children.
An Islamic puritan, Aurangzeb considered these practices un-Islamic pagan Hindu customs and purged them pic.twitter.com/PXbpPrrbBR— True Indology (@TrueIndology) October 14, 2017
While the brutality of Mughals is not justified for Muslim hate, pulling the veil over the ruthless reign is not acceptable.
