Mughal Era - Age of Tolerance or Intolerance?

Views around the Mughals have been getting increasingly polarised with even the late Mughals now depicted as invaders and colonisers on social platforms. At the same time we have had a long tradition in popular media of projecting them as benevolent rules under whom India experienced one of its glorious periods.

The truth clearly lies somewhere in between these two extremes. Through the medium of debate we would like to explore the subject from multiple dimensions in order to get closer to the truth.

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Prof. Shireen Moosvi
The senior most professor of history at Aligarh Muslim University and Author. She has held the posts of Chairman of the Department of History and Director Centre of Advanced Study in History at AMU.She is the author of The Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study (1987) and Taxation, Trade and People in Mughal India (2008). She has edited Facets of the Great Rebellion, 1857 (2009), and published a number of papers on colonial economic history and labor conditions.

Historian, Author and Public Speaker. He works on the political and social history of early modern and modern South Asia. He is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Author of the books Sixteen Stormy Days, Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics and Nehru: The Debates that Defined India.

Author, Architect and Columnist. He is an Author of two fiction books— "Restart- An Architect’s Journey to the Parliament House" and "Crossing the Line" inspired by Marxist ideology. His upcoming book - Modi Again is his first work of non-fiction. As an Architect he is part of the design team of Namami Gange, the Ganga river rejuvenation project. He is currently working on a six volume series on Mughals based on primary source research such as the Baburnama.

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[RD-ppds]

The only argument i could get from the lady defending Mughals is that they had no land to go back hence they were Indians.
This is a completely stupid argument, today we have anglo Indians who're actually Indians but that doesn't prove that their English were Indian rulers. Anybody living in any piece of land will take some aspects of the culture there with time but that doesn't mean we conclude mughals were Indians.

Also this argument that Babur took help of the Hindu kings against lodi, now this again is stupid because the Europeans were fighting with each other ...the french british dutch Portuguese all fought with each other with the help of other Indian rulers! So can we conclude that the Europeans were not colonizers but guests?

This again is the same Congress school of history with nonsensical claims!

[bakuljavadekar]

Mughals came here not out of love but because they had nowhere else to go. That is hardly praiseworthy. They were just making a virtue out of necessity. If someone from outside comes and forcibly occupies your house will you credit him and consider him an insider? Bogus logic.

[krishnamante]

Y'all can't be debating this
Mughals showed unprecedented bigotry and intolerance
Their rule left a scar on the country's social harmony

[Graviton-ccbn]

Like anytime in History, Mughal period was not homogenous. However, it was far better than Delhi sultanates, which was a time for turmoil all over the world.

[royp]

Ashoka was never a religious tolerant.

[Lathi]

Aligarh muslim university. Nuff said😂😂😂😂😂... We all know the founding objective of amu and sir syed. They still revere sir syed there. So the products will have the leanings to defend past muslims.