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A decade of BJP rule has done overwhelming damage to public discourse in India. It's not just Whatsapp university, but even serious scholarship that has gone to shit. Never has independent India's intellectual landscape, which was not exactly overflowing with rigor to begin with, looked this degenerate.
The article below is a typical example. Until a decade ago, this sort of civilizational fan-fiction would've been dismissed as fringe crankery, and laughed out of respectable publications. Today, it has become mainstream and is marketed as serious scholarship.
Putting aside the unstated (and false) claim of this article that Hindu rulers and dynasties were all saints, unlike those evil Mughals, note the other equally horrific implication: that the old Nehruvian obligation to appease Muslims has expired.
Of course you can't say "Muslims" directly, whether in a speech in Gujarat in 2002, or in an online history article in 2026. At least not yet. So you use euphemisms, like "Mughals".
In 1947, the logic goes, when India was a newly independent country, we had to tolerate those pesky Muslims for the sake of national unity. We had no choice but to put up with their shenanigans (i.e. treat them as equals). But now, the time has come to remind them of their "proper" place in the hierarchy.
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'Glorifying Mughals understandable in 1947. Today, we must face historical truths' Vikram Sampath @vikramsampath, Fellow of Royal Historical Society UK, and Founder of FIHCR, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/mughal…
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