the great benevolent emperor, according to the likes of amartya sen-rothschild, turns out to have new clothes on closer inspection.
he was just yet another standard semitic barbarian, but he had learned the art of marketing (perhaps he had some interaction with the christists).
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Subject: Akbar, The Great A Tyrannical Monarch
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Akbar "The Great": A Tyrannical Monarch
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Introduction
History of India has witnessed innumerable invasions by hoards of
armed marauders coming in from the west, perhaps attracted to the
riches and wealth India then possessed. Apart from looting of wealth
and destruction of property, the 'aliens' who remained, who committed
grave atrocities against the local populace, and themselves, wallowing
in immoral and unethical behaviour; except for one, it is said, Akbar.
Akbar, the third generation Moghal emperor who lived from 1542-1605
A.D, has been extolled as the greatest of all Moghals, righteous in
deed and noble in character. He is praised to be the only and truly
secular Emperor of the times, very caring and protective of his
subjects. However, assessment and analysis of contemporary notings
expose this unjustified edification of Akbar and provides a remarkably
different picture of Akbar's personality.
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Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Subject: Akbar, The Great A Tyrannical Monarch
To:
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/akbar_ppg.html
Akbar "The Great": A Tyrannical Monarch
________________________________
Introduction
History of India has witnessed innumerable invasions by hoards of
armed marauders coming in from the west, perhaps attracted to the
riches and wealth India then possessed. Apart from looting of wealth
and destruction of property, the 'aliens' who remained, who committed
grave atrocities against the local populace, and themselves, wallowing
in immoral and unethical behaviour; except for one, it is said, Akbar.
Akbar, the third generation Moghal emperor who lived from 1542-1605
A.D, has been extolled as the greatest of all Moghals, righteous in
deed and noble in character. He is praised to be the only and truly
secular Emperor of the times, very caring and protective of his
subjects. However, assessment and analysis of contemporary notings
expose this unjustified edification of Akbar and provides a remarkably
different picture of Akbar's personality.
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this is a bit controversial. what about birbal, todar mal, man singh, tansen, the religious discussions in fatehpur sikri, etc, etc. Why did many orthodox muslim cleric consider akbar a heretic? while India's secular historians no doubt like to whitewash the islamic chapter, how come akbar got stuck with the image of being secular, why not aurangzeb. Their must be some grain of truth in akbar being "relatively secular" (lets say compared to aurangzeb).
Akbar the Great..Really!!
Many of you must have read Akbar-Birbal stories, specially as a child. After reading those, don't you feel that he was naive, despotic, easily-beguiled, not-very-intelligent, cruel and ignorant. Certainly not worthy of title The Great. Though, I agree he was perhaps not as bad as Aurangzeb
All we can say about Akbar is that he did not wish to acknowledge the authority of some remote Caliph over him.
Moreover as a practical necessity for sustenance he could not kill off all the kafirs of India no matter what his learned orthodox Imams asked of him - who would produce the necessities of life? The barbarian Turks, Afghans, Mongols, Pathans, Arabs, etc. ???
Akbar attempted to create his own "Church of Din-Illahi" but apparently it failed. (One suspects he may have been trying to emulate the example of Henry VIII of England who successfully broke free from the fetters of Bishop of Rome.)
Ramesh go to bharatendu.com & check out Sarvesh Tiwari's yet unconcluded series on the transformation of Akbar the jihadi to Akbar the kaffir.
readthe article Harish, a wonderful analysis. thnks
Wherever I find this article, it is never signed. No autor, wich does not look much serious to me.
But it is obviously writen by P.N.Oak or some of his nationalistic close followers and colleagues so blindfanatic as to say that even the Vaticano, the Makka or the Mexican piramids were originally Vishnu temples.
I know hindus have reasons enough to hate muslims, but truth is truth, and Akbar was great. Probably no for the hindus, but he was.
I think this kind of distortions make quite a bad service for the rest of hindus, even for nationalists.
Whoever wants to read a bit more about my position about this issue, may go to my coment on "Who says Akbar was Great?" by P.N.Oak in my blog:
http://juandelamori.blogspot.com.es/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00%2B01:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00%2B01:00&max-results=1
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