Re: Favorite Mughal Emperor
Muqaweeji, I do believe in this, I saw this same thing in a TV Drama “Mein Dilli Hoon” long ago. Humayun was a great son and he was worth giving up life. He risked his entire fortune for a hindu sister, karmavati, wife of Rana Sanga. Rana was defeated in Khanwa but Babur was reluctant to put his royal flag on his fort claiming that he had fought in the company of Rana sanga whom he called lion in panipat against Ibrahim Lodhi. And grandson of Rana Sanga was Maharana Pratap who fought battle of haldighati against Akbar but never accepted his suzernity. Throughout his life Humayun kept on forgiving his brothers even though it was due to their inactions he lost his kingdom, finally when his troops said that they would revolt if he continued to pardon Kamran Mirza he took preventive action against him. He is actually humanity personified, as a son he was all Babar can think of, as a king he had limited success but his such great quality gave him a loyal Turkmen Bairam khan, who not only won second battle of panipat for him and instated a 14 year old Akbar as emperor, whom he could have easily dethroned, this is all because of humayun’s personal greatness. An emperor has to take political decisions but humayun was always personally correct and politically wrong, due to this his political life was in mess and personally he was an accomplished person.In India, it is also believed that birth chart of Buddhist king Ashoka the great has same planetary position like that of Jalaluddin Akbar and it was predicted by a hindu priest that he would become shenshah of Hindustan. Akbar invited great Bhakti saint Goswami Tulsidas, writer of Ramcharitmanas to his darbar in Fatehpur Sikri, but the saint declined by saying that a saint his above earthly pleasure.
Southee, not every tribe invaded India, my tribe is Scythian from Central Asia, I am a jatt sikh, my tribe sneaked in when Kushan empire was weakening, that is why we are not mentioned in hindu Vedas. Indo greek king menander, kushan empire, was greek in origin but he was devout vaishnav. Before invasion of Islam, anyone who invaded or sneaked in became part of Sanatan Dharam, Hinduism. You might have heard about infamous Khap Panchayat of Jats in Haryana, it is similar in structure and functions with Pashtun culture of Loya Jirga.. Jat/Jatt entered in after third century AD and remained farmer till Guru Gobind singh’s Khalsa army.
Rajputs are not mentioned as Kshatriyas in Hindu Vedas and Purans, the kshytriya tribes are like Ikshavaku, avanteya, yadavs etc. these tribes claims themselves Chandravanshi where as Rajput claim themselves as Suryavanshi. Rajpoot comes from vedic word Raj Putra, royal sons, Rajpoot from rajasthan are Suryavanshi, the thakurs of northern India who also use rajput titles are mostly chandravanshi, agnivanshi or nagvanshi precisely as mentioned in Vedic literature where as Suryavanshi Rajasthani Rajputs are post vedic creature and are mentioned in post vedic literature like Ramayan and Mahabharat
Chankya said long ago, if your economic strength doesn’t translate into military strength your kingdom remains most vulnerable. India was rich land, it was protected by hindukush mountains in west and Himalaya from north thus preventing both dry winds and snow from north giving moderate winters and fertile lands. When a society lives in abundance it hardly thinks about exploring anything, adi shankracharya philosophy “Braham satyam jagat mithya” god is truth and world is illusion was the primary mindset of ours for centuries, Apart from that we had obsolete rule of engagement, like prithiviraj chauhan didn’t chase the retreating army of ghouri after first battle of Tarain claiming that Suryavanshi never hit at the back of enemy. Krishna of mahabharat would have termed this as tactical mistake though