Re: RSS on their Conversion Assignment!
This video from the Crash Course World Hisotry series (I love these.. Do check them out) did a video on the Mughals, with particular attention paid to the contrast between Akbar and Aurangzeb. It highlights this point, that history is never one sided and there are always alternative interpretations. Enjoy!
“Traditionally, Akbar I is considered the emperor that made the Mughal Empire great, and Aurangzeb gets the blame for running the whole thing into the ground and setting it up for decline. Is that really how it was, though? It turns out, it’s complicated.”
“We often use history to define ourselves today, and one of the most common ways to do that is to make negative claims about the people who we say we are not. And so when we look at historical figures, we need to be conscience of the fact that WE are looking at them.”