@Environmen91371@BheriaMS It was way more easier to convert non muslims to Islam back then. Conversion was taking place of Big zamindar and elite Hindus right upto middle of the 20th century.
@Environmen91371@BheriaMS Azad and Majority Deobandis were of the view that with Times we would become majority through tfr and conversion to Islam. They also believed firmly that Indian land especially North is firmly rooted in Islamic/Muslim culture. They had pretty good reasons to oppose Pak.
Taj Mahal is just one specimen of the vast, diverse and cosmopolitan Indo-Muslim architecture, not an inch² of it belongs to the Persians or Turks.
If we went by the Turkish boasts, even the Pyramids were built by the Turks (pic 3)..
The thing is, the Turkish claim rests solely on the fact that Babur the Mongol was an extreme turkophile and hated his own (still did not call himself a Turk).
The Timurid Barlas family is a recorded (undisputed) Mongol dynasty, where the correspondences of Babur's successors (I.e., Indo-Mughal dynasty of India), even if Aurangzeb, are filled with this association..
In Emperor-Caliph Jahangir Bahadur's commisioned work, Muhammad Baqir Khan demonstrates a clear cut distinction of Indo-Mongol dynasty:
"Under his sovereignty are the east and west, the Turks and the Dailamites (Iranians) are his slaves.."
The Turkish claim has absolutely no limbs to stand out, we should not even entertain this ridiculous postrste ..
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The Iranians, on the other hand, are wrong to call Taj Mahal an Indo-Persian architecture. Still, their outrageous and sinister terminology is bearable as long as it remains strictly academic and unless ut becomes a tool for appropriating Indo-Muslim heritage.
After all, negligible elements of the Taj Mahal's structure are natively Persian.
The pietra dura, the art that breathes magnificence and glamour into the Taj Mahal, is an Italian (Venetian) art form. Primary accounts do tell us that European artisans and engineers were engaged in the building project.
The muqarnas that adorn the Taj Mahal's interiors are an Abbasid-era invention. The arch is not a native Persian element, but an adopted. The chhatris and corbels, meanwhile, are native Indian elements.
In any case, architecture is a field of cultural exchange. If we started tracing chains of credit and ownership, we would end up wiping out the heritage of many civilisation -- even the Romans.
And to be honest, this is not the deed of Iranians, but rather that of Western academia, where corrections to bigoted terminologies are needed.
If our historiographers [among the most worthless globally] were competent, this issue would not have arisen.
Recently, a Turkish historian rightfully denied that the Safavid dynasty was Turkic [they indeed were not]. The entire Turkish mass, from Twitter to Facebook to major news channels and YouTube, emerged to abuse him.
Such is the robust historical consciousness (albeit built on misleading and false premises) among them and other descendants of previous Islamicate civilisations.
For the last four days, Romans (like below) and Iranians have been appropriating the Taj Mahal, yet no Indian Muslim has replied. Eurorpeans did, even certain honest Iranians countered the Romans, but no Ind-M.
When there is no historical consciousness, even those who possess it feel discouraged. Why should we write this and that argument and waste energy and time typing? For what? 1.5K views?
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Coming back to the issue of terminology.
How ironic is it that Median architecture is labelled as Persian [Fars-i] by virtue of geography, when the Persians [Fars-i] were their arch-enemies. Moreover, many architectural elements that Persians appropriate were borrowed from foreign cultures. Yet they claim the Taj Mahal as their heritage, despite all the "Persian" architectural elements already existing in the Indo-Muslim sultanates 400yrs before Taj was built.
Terminology Matters.
In fact, the Taj Mahal's dome is an innovation upon the Jaunpuri dome. A dome of the Taj Mahal's specific form is virtually absent in Iran but abundantly represented in India.
Visit these links:
1) https://t.co/Lkd5XnCWVz
2) https://t.co/0z9lPQqJzg
Like Romans adopted various events of the Egyptians, Assyrians (which was present under the Selucids of Syria), Egyptians.. they developed their own signature.
The Shahjahani signature is found nowhere but where Indian Muslim polities and Indian Muslim guilds influenced.
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@Astryx_en Hindu liberal elites are Real Sanghis. They are civilizational Hindus. They have vision for Hindu civilization. These liberal Hindu Elites are trillion times more dangerous to Indo Islamic Civilization in Hind than RSS/BJP.
@Rustum_0 Israel folow Proportional Representation electoral system. Every 1 vote in this system makes difference. U get seats in assemblies equal to percentage of votes ur party gets in this system. India doesn't follow this system. IND Constitution is fascist. It doesn't giv IMs power.
@HPGodfather_ Israel follows Proportional Representation electoral system. Every single vote in this system makes difference. You get seats in assemblies equal to percentage of votes your party gets in this system. India doesn't follow this system.