#RemoveMughalsFromBooks trends on Twitter, a class apart
The JNU row is far from over and the hashtag #RemoveMughalsFromBooks, well has started trending on Twitter. A poor attempt to "rewrite" the history was made; in a rather ludicrous manner.
Twitterati waged a multi-directional attack on arguably one of India's most powerful dynasties. From art to architecture, the Mughals left an indelible imprint on the very sociocultural fabric of the subcontinent, especially north India.
Others argue that Babur's descendants have blood of thousands on their hands and no monument as grand as the Taj Mahal or as high as the Red Fort can match the reign of tyranny unleashed by them.
Here are some modern-day Birbals lashing against the new "anti-Mughal" where it hurts the most.
Twitter reactions:
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks but collect revenue from tourism in all the historic monuments build by the Mughals!
— ravish kumar (@RoflKumar) March 2, 2016
Wait, #RemoveMughalsFromBooks?Because you don't like what they did?That's how history works!You know: like Gandhiji's murder.Or, Godhra.
— Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) March 2, 2016
Scene in school After #RemoveMughalsFromBooks ..Who build Tajmahal? - TeacherShenshah Narendra Damodar das Modi - Students
— arnab (@justicearnab) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks or don't, but DO REMOVECALCULUSORGANIC CHEMISTRYELECTROMAGNETISM please
— Darshan (@TheIdiotIndian) March 2, 2016
Yeah #RemoveMughalsFromBooks and add My Jiju Wadra in books because he has grabbed more land than mugals checkmate !!!!!
— Office Of Pappu (@OfficeOfPappu) March 2, 2016
HRD minister trying to #RemoveMughalsFromBooks pic.twitter.com/dQ2r641IS7
— Rofl Gandhi (@RoflGandhi_) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks and store in a cool place with plenty of fresh air and natural light.
— BPB Delhi (@bpbdelhi) March 2, 2016
If Modiji can't #RemoveMughalsFromBooks he should #StepDownAsPM.
— Scotchy (@scotchism) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks - and also pages
— Madhavan Narayanan (@madversity) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks today. What's next? Pull down the Red Fort and Taj Mahal? Our heritage has to be preserved, not destroyed.
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) March 2, 2016
That's what happens when u have a person with dubious records as the PM and as HRD minister. #RemoveMughalsFromBooks
— Tehseen Poonawalla (@tehseenp) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks. Next up, #RemoveDalitsFromBooks. Oh wait, there aren't any in the first place.
— Puram (@puram_politics) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks #AlsoRemove60% words from Hindi.70% of our food items50% of music,painting, poetry,dance#Aim Remove 20%Indians
— atiya zaidi (@atiyaz) March 2, 2016
It is not sufficient to #RemoveMughalsFromBooks only, but those who fictitiously claim to b their descendants shud also b removed frm India.
— DG Vanzara (@VanzaraDg) March 1, 2016
The first point to note that it was the ancient period that gave Bharat both its unity and its sense of the nation. #RemoveMughalsFromBooks
— RSS (@RSS_Org) March 1, 2016
Yes change history as we can't change the future.??#RemoveMughalsFromBooks
— Mehek (@MehekF) March 2, 2016
Also read - We may now have proof Mughals were actually good for India
In recent years, as tensions between Hindus and Muslims have mounted, India's government has been accused of instigating or condoning numerous acts of violence against Muslims.
Popular thought in India holds that the origin of this conflict goes back centuries to medieval times, when Muslims expanded into the Indian subcontinent.
According to Audrey Truschke, a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Religious Studies, however, much of the current religious conflict in India has been fuelled by ideological assumptions about that period rather than an accurate rendering of the subcontinent's history.
Read more here.