Public awareness about India’s Muslim Kings & Emperors ( Khaljis, Tughaluqs, Suris, Mughals etc ) is too scanty to enable them to form a correct and realistic perspective of their times. Whatever little they known about their governance has come through distorted versions of medieval history. We should remember that these Muslims were essentially Conquerers cum Rulers rather than Islamic missionaries, preachers and propagandists. Had they been proselytizers, iconoclasts and bigots history would have been altogether so different that India would have been a Muslim majority Country today. They were least Islamic in their behaviour and attitude and promoted all that wasn’t in keeping with the tenets of Islam such as music, dance, wine, Mujra and other ravelleries and live sexy, noisy festivities/parties.
That these rulers have done India proud by not only making it a first GUNPOWDER power in the Subcontinent but also the largest economy, manufacturing gaint and textile hub in the world. They gave to it an all pervading, well to do and areligious (non-religious) system of governance that was overwhelmingly tilted towards raising its socio-economic level to unimaginable heights. The Mughals based their government on a sound Imperium that was doubtlessly characterised by: (1 ) an admirable Messianic zeal for overhauling the primitive, antiquated Indian culture into a vibrant social structure, infusing into it a subtle, pervasive aroma of harmony, accord and brotherhood and; ( 2 ) a revolutionary zest for reorganizing its economy ( largely based on agricultural produce,
manufacturing products, handicrafts and textiles ) on sound basis to make it robust enough to produce, for the first and last time, more than a quarter of Global GDP that varied between 28 to 30% instead of 27% as wrongly maintained by Shashi Tharoor. It was an amazing, unprecedented development which surpasses drastically Modern “ Democratic “ India’s 4.5% GDP.
Dr. Abdul Ahad is a well-known historian of Kashmir. He presents a perspective on the Kashmir issue and talks about Kashmir’s history and individuality
and personality.
