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From: K
From: K
I noticed that this article is referred to on your collective blog. I actually read it, and was apalled at the total distortion of history that Raman indulges in, just to avoid "offending the sensitivities of a particular community," and to appease the secular fascists as well. "4. This glorification of Aurangzeb was actually started by the Pakistan Government after the birth of Pakistan in 1947. The text-books got written and prescribed in schools by different Pakistan Governments depicted that there was no civilisation or culture in India before the Muslims came to the sub-continent and glorified Aurangzeb. In September 1996, Murtaza Ali Bhutto, the younger brother of Benazir Bhutto, was allegedly killed by the police of Karachi after he had returned from Islamabad, where he allegedly had a fierce quarrel with Benazir and her husband Mr. Asif Ali Zardari over his demand that he should be appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party. In a piece on the rule of Benazir, the "Economist" of London compared her to Aurangzeb."etc. ************************************************* The veneration of Aurangzeb as an exemplar of Islamic behaviour was not "actually started" by Pakistan after 1947, as Raman breathlessly informs us, with all the excitement of a latter-day Archimedes. Muslims are usually rather better-informed of their theology and addle-headed Pagans are about theirs. Aurangazeb was called "zinda peer" (living saint) in his own lifetime by the ulema who appreciated his zeal in dealing with Pagans as well as Islamic heretics and innovators e.g., Aurangazeb's elder brother Dara Shikoh and his peer, Sarmad, the naked Sufi mystic, both of whom were executed one way or another. Until recently, before Gandhian political correctness became pervasive, the Muslim community generally viewed the more liberal Akbar as a good king but a bad Muslim. Similarly, the idea that (annihilated) Pagan pre-Islamic civilizations are of little value was not invented by Pakistanis, but is a well-entrenched view of Islamic theology termed "Jahiliya." That is why so little of pre-Islamic Pagan Arabian history is known, mostly from non-Arab sources, and minuscule amounts from the uniformly hostile Islamic sources. Note that this is not an isolated case. Raman's overall analyses published over the years on several aspects of Islamic behaviour constitute a wonderful illustration of the apparently limitless capacity of Indian Pagans for self-delusion and a comprehensive case study in the creative fitting, if not manufacturing, of data to fit pet theories. But then, what can an "expert" do in a world where the Aryan invasion is fact? |
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